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AS Fidel Castro is laid to rest this weekend, this paper will not be alone in reflecting on his life and contribution to the struggle.
Across the world, Fidel will be mourned by those who owe him and the Cuban revolution a debt.
Of course, Fidel will be most mourned in his own country. For Cubans who lived through the revolutionary period and the Batista dictatorship that preceded it, to their children who have benefited from the dramatic advances in healthcare and education, all provided free by the Cuban state.
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
ISAAC SANEY points to the global stakes involved in defending the Cuban revolution against imperialism and calls for resistance
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year