Rock around the Blockade.- Rock around the Blockade te invita a celebrar el 50 Aniversario de la Revolución Cubana. Celebraremos cinco décadas de desarrollo socialista en Cuba y sus vínculos con movimientos progresistas y revolucionarios en Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia y Ecuador.
50 YEARS OF REVOLUTION IN CUBA
When: Saturday 17 January 2009
11am–6pm
Where: Bolivar Hall, Venezuelan Embassy,
54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL
Description:
Rock around the Blockade invites you to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. We will discuss five decades of socialist development in Cuba and the islands links with revolutionary movements in Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador.
Confirmed speakers:
Dr Helen Yaffe, (UCL/Rock around the Blockade): on Cuban political economy
Rafael Sardinas, Counsellor of the Cuban embassy
Felix Plasencia, minister counsellor of the Venezuelan embassy
Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT Union
Professor Theodore MacDonald: speaking about Cuba's literacy campaign
Diego Almeida, (Movement of Ecuadorians in the UK)
A representative from the Bolivian Embassy
Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the NUJ union and chair of Justice for Colombia campaign
Representative of the Revolutionary Communist Group
