Place: Cuba

Lisbeth Moya González analyzes the current crisis in Cuba, for which both the Cuban and the US governments are responsible.

The Northeast Los Angeles Alliance for Democracy held this webinar on June 21, 2026 with Iranian American, Cuban, Ukrainian American socialist feminist speakers.  It was moderated by MaryLinda Moss of the NELA Alliance for

We cannot allow ourselves to become advisors of the empire on how to govern Cuba, including what to do with the survivors of the PCC.

There seems to be nothing at present to stop Trump from terminating the Cuban Communist government.

Samuel Farber responds to Mesa-Lago’s comments and argues that China cannot be a model for Cuba, noting the connection between political repression and their model of capital accumulation in China.

In response to Samuel Farber’s critique, Carmelo Mesa-Lago defends his economic reform proposals for Cuba as Keynesian and anti-neoliberal.

Samuel Farber critically reviews Carmelo Mesa-Lago’s latest book comparing Cuba with China and Vietnam, and its proposals for market reform in Cuba.

The Cuban government is preventing Alexander Hall,  young Afro-Cuban scholar and social movement specialist from leaving the country to continue his education in Ecuador.  Sign this petition to demand that he be allowed to

Online Presentation by Lisbeth Moya Gonzalez to Northeast Los Angeles Alliance for Democracy on November 15,

But here it is, August again. I will turn 81 in a few days and so will my age-mate the atomic bomb. You and I will continue, as we know, to live in the shadow of the bomb until we create a movement to rid ourselves of it.

We are going through a stage marked by Trumpist aggression against Latin America, and Mesoamerica in particular, in a sort of 21st century Monroe Doctrine.

On his return to the presidency on January 20, Donald Trump rescinded his predecessor Joe Biden’s short-lived removal of Cuba from the State Sponsor of Terrorism (SSOT) designation. The SSOT designation will further isolate Cuba diplomatically and economically.
Biden only removed

Democratic planning should not be primarily approached simply from a technocratic point of view, but from a perspective of political self-education through a national debate.

The situation of women and LGBTQ folks in Cuba and the challenges facing queer and feminist activists.

“The conditions in Cuba are tough for those dissenting,” Alina Bárbara López says. “I have refused to flee Cuba and that strengthens the pressure on me. Nevertheless, I believe it is possible to get involved.”

The verticality of the 1959 revolutionary process took us by its own logic and dynamism to the extreme authoritarianism and total absence of democracy in today’s Cuba.

Samuel Farber defends his critique of Che Guevara as an anti-democratic figure that undermined the socialist cause in Cuba.

Janette Habel and Michael Löwy defend the political and intellectual legacy of Che Guevara as a Marxist, against Samuel Farber’s critique.

Alina Bárbara López Hernández
In the closing address to the tenth congress of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR -the street level vigilance committees) that took place on September 28 of this year, the president of the Cuban

As I write (and you read) these lines, two intellectuals, two friends, are persecuted by the respective governments of their countries. Alina Barbara López Hernández in Cuba, and Boris Kagarlitsky in Rusia.