Yesterday, just as Granma began special coverage of the Presidents television appearance, for our 16,000 followers, Twitter suspended Granma’s account and those of other Cuban media.

Beginning today, through September 13, signatures will be collected in workplaces and schools in Havana, Artemisa, Mayabeque, Matanzas and Pinar del Río, in solidarity with Venezuela, the Chavista Bolivarian Revolution, the civic-military union of the country’s people, and their legitimate president Nicolás Maduro Moros.

Neoliberal globalization has a surname. It is disseminated via a body of doctrine elaborated coherently and comprehensively by capitalist think tanks. To sustain the predominance of the market over the regulatory principles of the state, they associate with modernity a series of concepts that invade all areas of society. This includes academic reforms; they foment absolute truths in academia, erase and fragment knowledge of history and undermine the role of politics, partially defined by the rapid passage of bourgeois democracy.