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ON SUNDAY April 18 2021 Raul Castro Ruz stepped down as first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party. When he became the president of the republic of Cuba in 2008 he announced that he would be a candidate of transition from the “historic generation” that made the revolution to a new generation. He has kept that promise. Now in his 90th year, he became politically active as a teenager, participating in student demonstrations in Havana against the military dictator Fulgencio Batista who staged a coup with the backing of the US in 1952. Batista gave the Mafia licence to run gambling casinos...

Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, Havana, April 1993. Credit -- Gloria La Riva Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General

Lyndon Johnson-era AG Ramsey Clark dies at 93 WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 17: Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark (R) speaks during a news conference. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 1:20 PM PT – Sunday, April 11, 2021 Former Attorney General of the United States Ramsey Clark has died at 93. He was the AG for the Johnson administration. Clark passed away at his Manhattan, New York home on Friday. He made a name for himself as an activist for unpopular causes, such as condemning the Gulf War and acting as a lawyer in defense of Iraqi Dictator Saddam Husse...

86 16 minutes read Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, Havana, April 1993. Credit — Gloria La Riva Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human rights attorney who stood against U.S. military aggression worldwide, died peacefully April 9 at his home in New York City, surrounded by close family. He was 93 years old.  As a pre-teen growing up in Albuquerque, I certainly knew his name and that he was attorney general. I could not imagine then that we would become friends, that I would have the honor of working with him and learning ...

By February 12, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Cuba — perhaps more than most other countries — has been the victim of imperialism and colonisation.   The greatest impact of imperialism and colonisation is on people, in particular, indigenous people. Cuba is no exception. There are also other lasting impacts. Marxist political economists Paul Baran ( The Political Economy of Growth, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957) and André Gunder Frank ( Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1967) wrote of the devast...