Cuba's Ambassador to the United States will be here March 22 and 23. Wednesday March 22 University Church 5655 South University Avenueprogram begins at 7pm, reception 6:30 pm Thursday March 23 Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center 4048 West Armitage Avenue 6:30 reception 7pm program . Ambassador Torres Rivera is the first woman to head Cuba’s mission … Continue reading Cuban Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera in Chicago March 22, 23

Stansfield Smith, ChicagoALBASolidarity.org The Rage Against the War Machine, which stood up against the US war on Russia in Ukraine, was the first national anti-war demonstration in the capital in years. This was a groundbreaking event, showing that the anti-war movement has revived on a national scale after years of relative quiescence. Yet this success … Continue reading Behind the Self-Defeating Approach toward the National Protest against the US War on Russia in Ukraine 

   Stansfield Smith, ChicagoALBASolidarity.org The left has not become marginalized because of exhaustion or infighting. Its decline was caused by the US government’s more than century long police state operations, purging the left from its historic home in the working class movement, so that it now has only tenuous connection with the organized working class. … Continue reading            Part 2: Behind the Decline of the US Left