Political economy professor Helen Yaffe spoke to Green Left’s Alex Bainbridge about international solidarity efforts with Cuba and how the country represents an alternative to United States neoliberalism.
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Political economist and author Helen Yaffe spoke to Green Left’s Alex Bainbridge about how the Cuban people are responding to the United States government ramping up its imperialist aggression.
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Helen Yaffe joins the Green Left Show to discuss the Donald Trump government’s strangulation policies towards Cuba.
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More than 600 delegates in Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power, the country’s highest decision-making body, approved the draft of a new Constitution on July 22. It came after two days of debate in which more than 100 delegates participated, writes Helen Yaffe.
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The announcement by the Cuban Trade Union Confederation (CTC) on September 13 about plans to reduce the state sector workforce by half a million was greeted by jeering headlines from journalists outside the island. Cuba is rarely of interest to the corporate press unless they believe there is some crisis to celebrate or that new measures can be interpreted as evidence of a shift from socialism to capitalism. -
Cuba's successful models of sustainable development — in areas of food, housing and health — are now being widely replicated throughout Latin America.