ONE hundred years since the birth of Fidel Castro, Cuba remains the beacon of internationalism and anti-imperialism that he helped make it.This island nation of 11 million holds out, just 90 miles from the coast of the greatest military power in world history, which has sought to bully, bomb and blockade its revolution out of existence for all its 67 years.Cuba is still, as its President Miguel Diaz-Canel says, the “favourite target of imperial fury,” a socialist country whose mere existence enrages its superpower neighbour.

ONE hundred years since the birth of Fidel Castro, Cuba remains the beacon of internationalism and anti-imperialism that he helped make it.

This island nation of 11 million holds out, just 90 miles from the coast of the greatest military power in world history, which has sought to bully, bomb and blockade its revolution out of existence for all its 67 years.

Cuba is still, as its President Miguel Diaz-Canel says, the “favourite target of imperial fury,” a socialist country whose mere existence enrages its superpower neighbour.

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