literacy

Fidel lives on in the struggle

Socialist Alliance’s Dave Holmes gave this speech at a Melbourne rally in honour of Fidel Castro on December 4.

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Fidel Castro was a towering figure in world politics for almost six decades. Now, with his passing the hacks of the capitalist media have been gloating over the death of the β€œdictator”. Of course, he was nothing of the sort. As he truthfully told director Oliver Stone in the movie Commandante: β€œI am a slave to the people”. His life is a monument of conscience and loyalty to principle.

Cuban literacy campaign Wilcannia, Australia 2012.

Cuban Aboriginal literacy program success

More than 80 people packed into a lecture theatre at Sydney University on March 31 for a public forum entitled: "Increasing Aboriginal literacy: The Cuban 'Yes I Can!' literacy campaign in Australia".

Radical Aboriginal literacy program holds seminar

The Literacy for Life Foundation in partnership with the University of New England, hosted a one-day seminar on February 28 to discuss the β€œYes I Can” Aboriginal Adult Literacy campaign. This campaign has achieved notable success in raising adult literacy levels in three western NSW communities, using a model originally developed in Cuba. More than 80 people have already graduated in pilot projects in Wilcannia, Bourke and Enngonia.

Cuba's literacy program a success for Aboriginal community

Sixteen Aboriginal adults in the remote New South Wales town of Wilcannia are the first graduates of a groundbreaking trial literacy program that would not have been possible without the help of a tiny Caribbean nation β€” Cuba. At the beginning of this year, Cuban educator Jose Chala Leblanch arrived in Wilcannia to help establish the literacy program based on the world-famous β€œYes, I Can” teaching method developed by Cuba.