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CUBAN revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died peacefully in bed surrounded by family members on Friday night, having thwarted the efforts of 10 US presidents to overthrow him.
El Comandante, as Cubans knew him, survived at least 670 fanciful assassination plots dreamed up by the CIA or the mafia bosses to whom it offered the contracts on his life.
“If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal,” he once commented.
On its revolutionary founder’s 100th birthday, Cuba remains the revolution that ‘does not give up’ and socialism humanity’s only hope of avoiding the abyss
JOE DWYER of Sinn Fein reflects on the links between the Irish and Cuban struggles for independence and on Castro’s personal engagement with the cause of Irish freedom
On the centenary of Fidel Castro’s birth, Communist Party international secretary KEVAN NELSON salutes the ongoing example of a revolutionary people facing a brutal US siege
DR STEPHEN WILKINSON assesses the life and legacy of a revolutionary giant