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Exiles from tomorrow: Cuba in a time of struggle
In Havana’s streets, where past and future dance, PAWEL WARGAN traces the island’s unwavering socialist commitment, a torch lighting the path for liberation movements from Angola’s battlefields to Palestine's besieged streets

HAVANA compels you to think about time. It is not the time of the philosophers who debate whether “now” is a speckle or a span.

It is a material time, whose past rolls into the present, and whose future peeks through in the institutions and practices built by the hands of the Cuban people.

Everywhere there are auguries of a utopia not unrealised, but denied. Cuba is anachronistic in both directions, towards both past and future.

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