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Cuba in Africa: A documentary by Negash Abdurahman

Sunday, Sept. 24 – 2:00 p.m.

Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, 5278 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles

Sponsored by Let Cuba Live Coalition and Black Alliance for Peace

“Cuba in Africa” is the dramatic untold story of 420,000 Cubans – soldiers and teachers, doctors and nurses – who gave everything to end colonial rule and apartheid in Southern Africa.

Director Negash Abdurahman will be available via zoom to answer questions and discuss the film.

Hear about our campaign to get Cuba #OffTheList of state sponsors of terrorism and to break the U.S. blockade of that island country. Find out how you can get involved!

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Sep 21, 2023
South Africa’s National Union of Metalworkers will join call for Mumia’s freedom

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South Africa’s National Union of Metalworkers will join call for Mumia’s freedom

ILWU attends South African Conference commemorating the 1973 Durban strikes

By Lallan Schoenstein

Representatives from the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) gathered with union leaders from Namibia and South Africa at a Jan. 26 – 28, 2023, conference in South Africa to mark the anniversary of the 1973 Durban strikes that preceded the formation of South Africa’s powerful trade union movement.

When the ILWU delegation informed G.S. Jim that they wished to build international actions calling for Mumia Abu-Jamal’s freedom on Feb. 16, he offered to organize the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa to mobilize for a mass demonstration at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria.

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Feb 12, 2023
Germany must pay reparations to Africa

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Germany must pay reparations to Africa

By Stephen Millies 

Members of the December 12th Movement held a news conference today in front of the German mission to the United Nations in New York City to demand reparations for Namibia.

“Last week, after over a century of denial, Germany formally admitted its genocide,” said Roger Wareham. “We are here today, as Malcolm X often said, to ‘make it plain.’ Germany must pay reparations.”

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Jun 03, 2021
The status of women in the USA

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The status of women in the USA

Report by Lizz Toledo to the World Steering Committee of Women’s International Democratic Federation/Federación Democrática Internacional de Mujeres in Windhoek, Namibia: 

The status of women in the United States continues to be one of struggle. Women have been and continue to be in the frontlines of all people’s fights for liberation. We are union workers fighting to raise the minimum wage to $15 and fighting for equal pay. We are in the Im/migrant Rights movement demanding that family separations end and to abolish the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) police.

While in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, communities buried their dead from racist mass shootings, the U.S. government arrested 800 workers at their jobs in Mississippi chicken processing factories. Their children were left without their parents on their first day of school, but the racist billionaire owners exploiting these workers were not arrested for hiring undocumented workers.

We are in the streets demanding an end to mass incarceration and to abolish the oppressive police system that only serves the rich and powerful, who continue to kill Black and Brown youth at will and with impunity.

We are among the fighters for LGBTQ2S liberation. Stonewall 50 was celebrated this past June 30 in New York City, as delegates from around the world came to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of the modern-day LGBTQ2S movement.

We organize and fight to end sexual and domestic violence of any kind directed at women and young girls. We are anti-war and anti-imperialist. Even with the boot of U.S. imperialism on our necks, we continue to defend Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Zimbabwe, Palestine, Cuba and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea against U.S. aggression. End Imperialist wars! Long live the international working class!

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Aug 23, 2019
Women’s International meets in Namibia, prepares for upcoming congress

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Women’s International meets in Namibia, prepares for upcoming congress

First in a series

By Lizz Toledo

Windhoek, Namibia: The friendship and love shown between comrades Sam Nujoma and Fidel Castro continues in the solidarity between the Cuban and the Namibian peoples. Their revolutionary energy is intoxicating. 

On this sacred ground, the World Steering Committee of the Women’s International Democratic Federation/Federación Democrática Internacional de Mujeres (WIDF/FDIM) met in Windhoek, Namibia, from Aug. 9 to Aug. 12, to draft resolutions for our upcoming congress to ratify and spread worldwide. 

Representatives from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean presented their resolutions from their respective regions. Cuba demanded an end to the U.S. blockade and for U.S. imperialism to stop pressuring Cuba to withdraw their support for Venezuela in exchange for the lifting of sanctions against Cuba. As Alicia Campos, representing the Federation of Cuban Women, put it, “We will never sacrifice our principles.” 

Christina, representing the Organization of Argentinian Women, shared her joy as news that the Front for Victory, which is an alliance of several progressive groups in Argentina, had won their primary election, which preceded the national election in November. This was a great blow to the right-leaning opposition. Besides this, Argentina, as well as many other countries, demanded an end to U.S. sanctions on Venezuela and recognition of the duly elected government led by President Nicolás Maduro. 

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Aug 19, 2019

SWAPO delegation visits People’s Korea

Pyongyang, May 12 (KCNA) – Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, met and had a talk with the delegation of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) of Namibia headed by Secretary General Nangolo Mbumba, who paid a courtesy call on him, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Monday.

Talks between Delegations of Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and SWAPO Held

Talks between the delegations of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) of Namibia were held in Pyongyang on May 10.

Present at the talks from the WPK side were Kang Sok Ju, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the C.C., the WPK, Pak Kun Gwang, vice department director of the C.C., the WPK, and other officials of the WPK Central Committee, and from the opposite side were members of the Namibian party delegation headed by Secretary General Nangolo Mbumba.

At the talks both sides informed each other of their party activities and exchanged views on the issue of further developing the friendly relations between the two parties and other issues of mutual concern.

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May 13, 2014

Cuba’s Other Internationalism: Angola 25 Years Later

uba is rightly known worldwide for its many acts of humanitarian internationalism, exemplified by its numerous medical missions across the world.  However, one of Cuba’s greatest accomplishments has often been neglected in most corners of the mainstream press and academia due to a combination of the ongoing efforts to undermine and marginalize revolutionary Cuba and the ongoing legacy of the Cold War imperialist intervention that has largely influenced our collective understanding of history.

This October will mark the 25thanniversary of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale – what Isaac Saney has called “Africa’s Stalingrad” due to its central role in striking a fatal blow against the occupation of South West Africa (now Namibia) and kick-starting negotiations with the African National Congress which would soon put an end to the rule of the racist apartheid system in South Africa.  Writing from prison, Nelson Mandela stressed that the battle of Cuito Cuanvalae “was the turning point for the liberation of our continent—and of my people—from the scourge of apartheid.”

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Oct 02, 2013
fala7idreams: “ Mural, Falls Road, Belfast, 1983 – “Solidarity between women in armed struggle”; women militants of (from left to right) Palestine Liberation Organisation, Cumann an mBan (women’s section of Irish Republican Army) and Southwest...

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Mural, Falls Road, Belfast, 1983 – “Solidarity between women in armed struggle”; women militants of (from left to right) Palestine Liberation Organisation, Cumann an mBan (women’s section of Irish Republican Army) and Southwest African People’s Organisation (Namibia), contained within women’s symbol.

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May 10, 2013
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I know there are some people who become irritated whenever I talk about Cuba, but why should I not talk about it. They played a crucial role to ensure that Namibia attains its independence.

On this special day, we salute our brothers and sisters from the Frontline States and other African countries, the Cuban Internationalist Forces, and other progressive forces who supported us in our struggle.

We will always cherish your solidarity and support, which contributed to the defeat of apartheid colonialism and the birth of the Republic of Namibia on 21st March 1990.

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Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba, commemorating 35 years since the Cassinga Massacre

Thanks to Agent of Change

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May 06, 2013

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