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Issue: 649

April 14, 2016

Guest Commentary

The Critical Choices Facing Cuba Today

By Paul Becker, Portside Guest Commentator

Among the great accomplishments of the Cuban revolution have been the great strides made in the education of its entire people. Education is completely free from primary school through university. Cuba today has a literacy rate of over 96 percent, putting it at the top, along with Argentina and Uruguay, in all of Latin America.

His voice was filled with emotion and he gestured emphatically as he told the story. He was speaking of a young woman he knew in his…

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Commentary

Remembering Jitu K. Weusi

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

Jitu helped shape the Black Liberation Movements organizing around the armed struggles in Mozambique, Angola, Guinea Bissau, Namibia, and South Africa. Jitu and The East family were on the cutting edge of linking these struggles to the Pan African context of our connections as an African people worldwide.

My long time friend for over forty years and comrade in the struggle for African Liberation worldwide, Jitu Weusi, made his transition on Wednesday, May 23,…

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