Growing up, there was no culture of doctor visits and checkups for me or many of my friends. The doctor was for emergencies.

There is no charge for doctor visits, check-ups, operations, dental visits, vaccinations, and more in Cuba. This makes it accessible for all. Though health care doesn’t cost for individuals there, these things of course are not “free.” They are made possible, as Hawkins points out, because in 1959 workers and farmers seized power from the capitalist class and have used the human and natural resources of that country for the advancement and development of society in Cuba and around the globe.

Brian Taylor
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  
 
Rosa Parks
Why was the American government recently commemorating Rosa Parks? Lenin explained it well in State and Revolution: “During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them… and to hallow their names… for the ‘consolation’ of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance.”

Per Leander
Stockholm, Sweden  
 
 
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