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.
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
The recent speech by Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel is an affirmation of Amilcar Cabral’s revolutionary principle, writes ISAAC SANEY
During visits to Cheney School and Oxford Brookes University, Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter highlighted how Cuba devotes half its budget to education, health and social security despite the US blockade, reports ROGER McKENZIE



