ACTIVISTS are set to join the Cuban ambassador to Britain in east London later on Saturday for a meeting to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the US-backed coup against the Grenadian Revolution.
Cuban ambassador Barbara Montalvo is scheduled to speak alongside local activist Jonathan Silberman, and Matthew Lord, who was part of the People’s Militia during the revolution, at the Osmani Centre, Underwood Road in east London from 3pm.
Maurice Bishop led the New Jewel Movement into an explicitly anti-oligarchic and anti-imperialist revolution in 1979, becoming prime minister.
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
ALEX GORDON and LORRAINE DOUGLAS report from Havana, Cuba, where they represented the Communist Party of Britain at the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties on August 7-8
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



