Cuba’s efforts to roll-back racism offer valuable lessons for South Africa, where racism, because of the legacy of colonialism, slavery and apartheid, is deeply ingrained within institutions, social relations and everyday behaviour.
Cuba
Tagged under Human Security Racism, Fidel Castro, Apartheid, Cuba, South Africa
The contribution he has made to the world socialist movement, to the Third World liberation struggle and to social justice has been monumental – especially when one considers that he has been the leader of a tiny country with roughly the same population as New York City.
Tagged under Global South South America Fidel Castro, Cuba
Before leaving Montreal for Havana in March 2016 to cover the Obama trip, I wrote an article on Cuba–US relations. Referring to the cultural war to include, in the broad sense of the term, ideological and political aggression, I asked:
Tagged under Pan-Africanism South America Obama in Cuba, Raul Castro, Fidel Castro, Cuba