Life Under Blockade: an Interview with Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno RodriguezIn Havana in August 2026, Helen Yaffe and Nina Blodau interviewed Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, for Cuba Analysis Podcast. Produced in collaboration with Belly of the Beast Cuba, the full episode is available via their channels and website. Below we publish a transcript of the interview.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/07/life-under-blockade-an-interview-with-cubas-minister-of-foreign-affairs-bruno-rodriguez/ Dutch strike wave: welfare not warfare! The Dutch government is trying to impose a budget which cuts billions from the welfare state to spend billions on imperialist rearmament. This week, thousands of workers from across the Netherlands – dockers, rail and transport workers, metalworkers, brewers, civil servants and cleaners – are striking to stop them. This is the biggest strike wave in decades. Its potential is enormous. Just a few hundred dockers in Rotterdam have shut down the busiest port in Europe, responsible for 30 percent of the EU’s container trade, in direct response to cuts that are explicitly designed to fund militarist spending. This movement is just a glimpse of the potentially unstoppable power of even a fraction of the European working class. With a militant lead, this force could bring the ruling classes to their knees and deal a blow against the continent-wide rush to remilitarise, paid for by the working class.
https://marxist.com/dutch-strike-wave-welfare-not-warfare.htmMKP’s Call for “Unity” WHY ARE WE SEPARATE, OR WHAT IS OUR DIFFERENCE?Revolution is, of course, the work of the working class, the other labouring masses and, in total, the masses. The existence of oppressed and exploited classes constitutes the objective conditions of revolution. But without organizing the subjective force that provides leadership to the labouring masses under oppression and domination, it is not possible to carry the revolution to victory. More clearly, the leadership of the vanguard parties over the working class and the othe
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