Cuban Solidarity, Bernie Sanders, the Leaked Labour Report & more -- The Week in News and Opinion April 12 - 19

This week's list of articles, news items, visuals and opinion pieces that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  April 12 - 18.

This week's edition begins again with a very large roundup of news and left opinion about the capitalist coronavirus crisis and its impact on working people globally. There are also a number of links related to Cuba's internationalism and global solidarity with the island nation, Bernie Sanders' capitulation to Biden and the leak of a report showing that right-wing Labour Party insiders actually worked to tank the party in the 2017 election campaign. 

The Featured Article link at the start is an excellent piece by Bob Buzzanco on the attempts by some lefties to try to shame those not getting on board with backing Biden.

We have tried to arrange the coronavirus news thematically and to touch on many different areas of concern.


Featured Post:

Older and Wiser, and Vote-Shaming

Liberals are a an offensive and feckless peculiar bunch.  They love liberty and freedom.  They believe in equality and personal space.  They believe that a woman should have the right to choose whether to have a child, and that gays should have the right to get married. So perhaps the right to vote, or not to vote, should be part of their ideology too.  In any event, stop the scolding and hectoring and vote-shaming, and go out and work to get your guy elected.  Or maybe better, get involved in movement politics instead of obsessing over electoralism and waiting for a hero to save you.


Otherwise, STFU have a good day.

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis:

- No time left. This social order must change! -- Statements from Turkey, Greece and Sweden

- Only socialism saves!

- A Socialist Cry for Civilisational Change: COVID-19 and the Failure of Neo-liberalism

- Could Covid-19 vanquish neoliberalism?

- Could COVID-19 bring down the U.S. empire?

- I Want My Death to Make You Angry

- Baffled?? Me Too,Friend!

- THE CASE FOR RENT FORGIVENESS

- The Coronavirus Strike Wave Could Shift Power to Workers—for Good

- Liberal anti-Chinese propaganda helped create the far-right campaign to blame China for Covid-19

- Truth Tracker: There's no scientific proof that COVID-19 was made in a Chinese lab

- Is the cruise industry finally out of its depth?

- Solidarity Yes -- Blockade No! We Demand the Immediate Lifting of the Criminal US Blockade of Cuba

- Cuba is Willing to Send More Medical Brigades to the World

- Cuba shares what it has

- Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help Covid-19 Victims

- Cuba Is Developing a Vaccine to Activate the Immune System

- Cuban Doctors Arrive in Qatar to Fight COVID-19

- Caribbean Organizations Unite Against US Attacks, Support Caricom

- Vietnam ships 450,000 protective suits for U.S. health care workers

- Kerala is a model state in the Covid-19 fight

- Africa's COVID-19 Death Toll Hits 816, 15,249 Confirmed Cases

- COVID-19 Worsens Struggle of Migrant Workers in Gulf States

- Settler attacks rise by 78 percent amid pandemic

- Israel Shuts Palestinian Coronavirus Testing Clinic in East Jerusalem

- Open Letter to Condemn Trump Admin’s Hypocritical Indictment on Drug Charges of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, High-Ranking Officials

- Venezuela Has the Lowest Contagion Rate in Latin America

- “War Operation”: Communist Party-run Maranhão State imports Chinese ventilators in secret, via Ethiopia

- Trump Accused of 'Actively and Knowingly' Spreading Coronavirus to Central America Through Deportations

- Colombia: Red Rags on Windows to Protest Amid Quarantine

- Virus hit 'like a bomb' as toll rises in Ecuador's business capital

- Brazil: Chloroquine Studies Suspended After 11 People Die

- Brazil, Ecuador Record Highest Death Tolls From COVID-19

- There’s No Reason to Turn Airtime Over to Trump’s Deceptive Coronavirus Campaign Rallies

- Trump suspends funding to WHO pending review over handling of coronavirus

- Unions back U.S. Postal Service’s $75B pandemic appeal, oppose right-wing privatization plans

- Three New York City transit workers dying every day of coronavirus

- Hit Hard by Covid-19, Transit Workers Call for Shutdowns

- US for-profit healthcare sector cuts thousands of jobs as pandemic rages

- The U.S. Opposes the IMF to Create Liquidity to Help Countries

- Coronavirus Outbreak at Virginia Nursing Home Spirals Out of Control as 45 Die

- ‘They’re Death Pits’: Virus Claims at Least 7,000 Lives in U.S. Nursing Homes

- Chicago coronavirus outbreak infects dozens of migrant children in U.S. custody

- “BURIALS ARE CHEAPER THAN DEPORTATIONS”: VIRUS UNLEASHES TERROR IN A TROUBLED ICE DETENTION CENTER

- Congress Should Immediately Pass Legislation Protecting Workers' Safety During the Coronavirus Pandemic

- 'Heartbreaking Statistic': Thanks to Pandemic, Last Month Was First March Since 2002 Without a US School Shooting

- Next Coronavirus Relief Package Must Include Moratorium on Utility Shutoffs, 830+ Justice Groups Say

- Death penalty states urged to release stockpiled drugs for Covid-19 patients

- Great, the Anti-Vaxxer Coronavirus Protests Are Here

- Labour leaders say they’ll push to permanently improve pay, working conditions for essential workers (Canada)

- The hypocrisy of our leaders around social distancing is reckless (Canada)

- Union says 35 TTC bus operators walked off job due to lack of PPE (Toronto)

- Quebec reopens mines despite the concerns of the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

- Years of government austerity to blame for 31 deaths at seniors' residence, Quebec's largest union says

- Kelowna golf courses reopen with new protocols but health officials say it's not a great idea

- Ontario’s lack of diversity data for COVID-19 is an embarrassment

- Ontario needs to spend at least $58 million more a month to fix long-term care staffing crisis: CCPA

- Ontario to stop caregivers from working at multiple long-term care homes as COVID-19 spreads like 'wildfire'

- Ontario scaled back comprehensive, annual inspections of nursing homes to only a handful last year

- Ontario rejects call to take over operations at long-term care homes where 54 residents have died

Bolivia:

- Bolivia Indigenous Denounce Añez for Discrimination

- Evo Morales: Police Put Cochabamba Population's Health at Risk

Brazil:

- Brazil: Indigenous Peoples Go to Court Against Missionaries

- Indigenous People In Brazilian Amazon Face Covid-19 and Loggers

- BRAZIL’S JAIR BOLSONARO, THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL CORONAVIRUS DENIER, JUST FIRED THE HEALTH MINISTER WHO DISAGREED WITH HIM

- Bolsonaro Closes Brazil's Embassy and Consulates in Venezuela

Canada:

- The Business Wage Subsidy: Trickle-Down Economics on Steroids

- Federal Government Won’t Disclose Details of New Contract With Amazon to Manage Canada’s COVID-19 Supplies

- We have the oil lobby’s secret list of COVID demands – if approved, they would set environmental protection back decades

- 11 things you need to know as Trudeau announces $1.7 billion to clean up ‘festering’ orphan and inactive wells

- Dimitri Lascaris wants the Green Party to be the champion of Canada’s left

- ‘A dangerous road’: Coastal GasLink pays to kill wolves in endangered caribou habitat in B.C. interior

- Alberta Government Turns Hard to the Right

- Manitoba seeks to claw back or cancel funding for 'non-essential' service providers during COVID-19 pandemic

- 'Let her soul rise': Supporters pay tribute to Eishia Hudson, 16, shot and killed by Winnipeg police

- Over 300 health-care workers sign open letter demanding more shelter for Toronto's homeless

- Some Landlords Found a Loophole in Doug Ford’s ‘Eviction Ban’. They’re Still Threatening Renters with Eviction.

- Ontario's Front-Line Workers Call For Paid Sick Days

- Governments that borrowed interest-free from Bank of Canada now incur massive debts borrowing from private banks

Climate Emergency:

- Second wave of locusts in east Africa said to be 20 times worse

- Planned obsolescence: the outrage of our electronic waste mountain

- 2020 expected to be Earth's warmest year on record, scientists say

- Wildlife Collapse From Climate Change Is Predicted to Hit Suddenly and Sooner

Europe:

- Workers in France Take Over McDonald’s to Distribute Food

- Greece’s Communist Party: We Join Our Voice with Those of Supermarket Employees

- Communist youth in Italy launch campaign to guarantee student rights

Facebook:

- Facebook arbitrarily limits The Left Chapter with no explanation or appeal

Ideas:

- Facing Reality: The Socialist Left, the Sanders Campaign and Our Future

Israel / Palestine:

- Netanyahu's Son Says He 'Hopes' Leftists Will Die of Coronavirus Following Protest

Latin America:

- Colombia: Not Even the Pandemic Halts Killing of Social Leaders

- Guatemala: Social Organizations Denounce Massive Layoffs

- Cuba: Institutions Work Together to Protect the Elderly

Mexico:

- ‘We’ve been abandoned’: a decade later, Deepwater Horizon still haunts Mexico

United Kingdom:

- Socialists call for transparency over anti-semitism investigation that risks being 'suppressed'

- ‘It’s going to be a long night’ – How Members of Labour’s Senior Management Team Campaigned to Lose

- ‘The Leaked Labour Report Is Shameful – It’s Time for an Urgent Investigation’

- Labour’s explosive report shows how right-wing officials sabotaged the party

- Labour's leaked report: we can't let them get away with it

- Labour leaks have cost the party dearly – but its dismissal of anti-black racism means it’s about to lose a lot more

- McCluskey slams ‘rancid and very cruel’ behaviour exposed in Labour's leaked report

United States:

- Bernie go Bye Bye -- Hellworld #8

- The Cognitive Dissonance of “Democratic Socialists”— Cults Die a Slow Death

- The End of Sanders, and Maybe the Beginning of a Mass Independent Left

- Bernie’s Political Funeral 

- Not Me, Biden

- ‘THAT MAN CAN’T BREATHE’

- US judge cancels permit for Keystone XL pipeline from Canada

- These Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America

- With working Americans' survival at stake, the US is bailing out the richest

- 'A Complete Abomination': Mega-Rich Hedge Funds Swoop Down to Grab Covid-19 Small Business Relief Funds

- Millionaires to reap 80% of benefit from tax change in US coronavirus stimulus

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis and the Worker Fightback -- The Week in News and Opinion March 15 - 22

This week's list of articles, news items, visuals and opinion pieces that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  March 15 - 22.

Unsurprisingly this week's edition begins with a very large roundup of news and left opinion about the capitalist coronavirus crisis and the fightback against attempts to confront it on the backs of workers.  We have tried to arrange this coronavirus news thematically and to touch on many areas of concern such as housing, worker's rights, left party demands, the heroic internationalism of socialist Cuba, and many other topics. The Featured Article link at the start is a powerful "Letter from a Retail Worker".

Featured Article:

Letter from a Retail Worker: Gratitude is nice, but dignity and safety start with a strong union

"Things can really only get worse from here for retail workers—if we let it. We are underpaid, micromanaged, and disdained. And when this crisis is over, that won’t change unless we change it ourselves. That has to start with a strong union. Make a fresh one or join one of the better existing ones (no minimum wage, tiered contract bullshit—I’m looking at you, UFCW). We want to support ourselves and our families, we want job security, we want a say in how health and safety policies that literally affect our livelihoods are decided. We want everyone to have their groceries and coffee, but we don’t want to die or kill our immunocompromised or elderly family members doing it. If companies—and capitalist society as a whole—didn’t by nature prioritize profits over us, we wouldn’t have to make that choice."


Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis and the Worker Fightback:

- Panic buying and hoarding are a function of capitalism

- Message to the government: your friends, the super-rich, are the hoarders

- Coronavirus has revealed left wing ideas are nothing more than plain common sense

- "Socialism is imperative for our health!" -- International workers' parties call for socialist solutions to the capitalist coronavirus crisis

- Covid-19 hastens the deepening structural crisis of the capitalist system

- "It is only through our resistance and struggle that we can defend our rights." - WFTU coronavirus statement

- Our politics isn’t designed to protect the public from Covid-19

- Look after people not profit in the COVID-19 crisis

- Lessons from the Spanish flu of 1919: internationalism and people before profit

- EMERGENCY ACTION REQUIRED NOW TO STOP COVID-19 AND DEEP RECESSION

- While Some Wait For COVID-19 Tests, The Wealthy Cut The Line

- Cuba Sends 144 Health Workers to Combat the Covid-19 in Jamaica

- Cuba Sends 53 Doctors and Nurses to Fight Covid-19 in Italy

- Amid coronavirus pandemic, Bolsonaro’s Brazil begs for Cuban doctors – after expelling them

- What coronavirus revealed about national mindsets across the world — and how Cuba came out on top

- Update: British Cruise Ship With COVID-19 Cases to Dock in Cuba

- Cuba's Interferon Alpha 2B, Successful in Treating COVID-19

- BioCubaFarma Guarantees Production of Drugs for COVID-19

- Chile’s Communist Mayor to Import Cuban Meds to Fight COVID-19




- Bolivia: Coup-Born Regime Rejects Medical Cooperation From Cuba

- The UK Only Realised "In The Last Few Days" That Its Coronavirus Strategy Would "Likely Result In Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths"

- 'A generation has died': Italian province struggles to bury its coronavirus dead

- Grim milestone: Italy's coronavirus deaths surpass China's

- Why Italy was hit so hard and so fast by COVID-19

- Australian doctors condemn government response to COVID-19 “disaster”

- Coronavirus: Socialists Call for Urgent Bonus to Health, Welfare Workers (Hungary)

- Workers at Lewisham coronavirus hospital walk out after not being paid

- ‘Terrified’ Package Delivery Employees Are Going to Work Sick (USA)

- Workers Shut Down Mercedes Factory That Called Them In During Coronavirus (Spain)

- Employees in Toronto are being told to work in the face of COVID-19 and they’re angry and scared

- Air Canada failing to inform us of true exposure to Covid-19, employees claim

- Ontario Bill 186 "falls far short" Dias says as Unifor continues to call for 14 point plan for workers

- ‘Blood on their hands:’ Teachers say de Blasio and Carranza helped spread coronavirus

- New York now the center of the US coronavirus crisis – can it cope?

- We’re Struggling With the Coronavirus in Spain—but We’re Vastly More Prepared Than the US

- Spain has nationalized all of its private hospitals as the country goes into coronavirus lockdown

- America has no real public health system – coronavirus has a clear run

- Total Cost of Her COVID-19 Treatment: $34,927.43 (United States)

- Here Are the 51 Republican Senators Who Just Voted Against Expanding Paid Sick Leave to All Workers

- Trump inaccurately claims malaria drug has been ‘approved’ for coronavirus treatment, prompting FDA correction

- Coronavirus – anti-China propaganda brings catastrophe to the West

- White House Pushes U.S. Officials to Criticize China For Coronavirus ‘Cover-Up’

- Photo of Trump remarks shows 'corona' crossed out and replaced with 'Chinese' virus

- Bolsonaro’s son enrages Beijing by blaming China for coronavirus crisis

- Coronavirus and anti-racism: no scapegoating, no excuses

- COVID-19: Korean consulate issues warning after violent attack in Montreal

- Asian Canadian Woman Wearing Face Mask Kicked Out of Toronto Supermarket

- Don't Demonize China! A Report from Chongqing

- China would answer calls for assistance – even when the past isn't pleasant

- Why are we surprised the BC NDP is forcing thousands back to work in unsafe man camps for Big Oil?

- Work Camp in Alberta’s Oil Field Issues Notice That Workers May Have Been Exposed to COVID-19

- Game Over for Kenney

- The Other Emergency Is Crashing Oil Prices

- Ottawa prepares multibillion-dollar bailout of oil and gas sector

- NYC local buses a free ride for all during coronavirus outbreak

- Cities across Canada implement free transit to curb COVID-19

- Detroit Bus Drivers Win Protections Against Virus Through Strike

- 'Literally Weaponizing Coronavirus': Despite One of World's Worst Outbreaks of Deadly Virus, US Hits Iran With 'Brutal' New Sanctions

- US accused of making Iran's coronavirus crisis worse after issuing new sanctions

- 'In This Dark Hour for the Iranian People,' Groups Demand Trump End Inhumane Sanctions Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

- US Should Lift Economic Sanctions to Avoid More Deaths From Pandemic

- Cuba faces squeeze on food production as US oil sanctions bite

- IMF Rejects Venezuela's Request for $5B in Virus Aid

- U.S. prevents Venezuela from buying drugs to treat COVID-19

- China Releases Full Report on US Human Rights 2019 Record – Criticizes US Sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba

- Israel stops providing cleaning products to Palestine detainees

- Gaza confirms first coronavirus cases as West Bank shuts down

- A coronavirus coup in broad daylight (Israel)

- Guatemala Suspends All US Deportation Flights Over COVID-19

- NYSE boss sold his own stock ahead of coronavirus market meltdown

- Four senators sold stocks before coronavirus threat crashed market

- Senator Richard Burr Sold a Fortune in Stocks as G.O.P. Played Down Coronavirus Threat

- Labour demands government suspends rents to stop evictions during coronavirus pandemic (UK)

- Ontario puts brakes on new eviction orders, postpones ones in the works because of COVID-19

- Here's how Toronto renters feel about the new mortgage deferrals in Canada

- Coronavirus: Calls to suspend rent in Toronto get louder

- TORONTO: KEEP YOUR RENT (April 1)

- B.C. union calls for suspension of mortgage and rent payments until COVID-19 crisis ends

- Impact of COVID-19 on Vancouver's DTES could be catastrophic

- If Social Distancing Is Impossible in Prisons, People Should Be Freed

- Canada to turn back asylum seekers, close border at midnight to stop spread of COVID-19

- Community Services abandons most vulnerable in time of crisis (Nova Scotia)

- COVID-19: Quebec teachers in shock after government suspends collective agreements

- Emergency action is necessary to end the health and economic crises in Ontario

- Ontario could run out of ICU beds, ventilators in 37 days even if COVID-19 rates cut in half: study

- Chickens coming home to roost in austerity Ontario

- Frustrated Canadians looking for mortgage deferrals from big banks facing delays, denials

- AFB2020 as COVID-19 policy response: A plan to protect workers and the public from an unprecedented crisis

Bolivia:

- Bolivia: Electoral Tribunal Suspends Elections Due to COVID-19

- Bolivia: MAS Presents Legal Resource in Support of Evo Morales

- Morales pick leads in Bolivia opinion polls

Brazil:

- Rise in 'forced disappearance' preys on Brazil's young men of colour

Canada:

- January manufacturing sales show Canadian factories were slowing even before COVID-19 hit

- Alberta to sell native grassland despite promises no Crown land would be sold

- Tribunal orders Canada to compensate parents who lost children in care

- Despite Foodora ruling, app-based workers face uphill union battle

India:

- Delhi's Muslims despair of justice after police implicated in riots

Israel / Palestine:

- Bibi Boi -- Hellworld #6

- Maiming Palestinians for Sport is a War Crime

United States:

- Furious at Probe Into US War Crimes Pompeo Threatens ICC Staff

- Sanders Gets Swallowed by the DNC Machine: It’s Time to #DemExit

32 Photos of Che Guevara from 1943 - 1967

Over the course of February we shared 29 daily photos of Che Guevara, iconic revolutionary leader and hero. These came from a Soviet archive and many of them are quite unusual.

Here we have compiled all of these into a single post adding three to make 32 photos of Che.

Each photo has a description and some are accompanied by contextual history and quotes.

There is a little bit of everything from family photos, to the Cuban Revolution to trips to the USSR, and on. They span from 1943 to 1967.

Readers can look forward to some more Che photo and art posts from the archive in our Daily LIFT feature over the next couple of months. 

Che at age 15, 1943 

Che trying to climb the Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City, 1956

"Let me tell you one quality that sums him up, one that I most appreciated, among the many I observed in him ... Che suffered from asthma. Near Mexico City, there's a volcano, Popocatepetl, and every weekend Che would try to climb Popocatepetl. He'd get his equipment in order — the mountain is tall, over 5,000 metres, almost 18,000 feet, with snow year-round — and he'd start the ascent. He'd make a tremendous effort, but he'd never make it to the top. The asthma prevented him. The next week he'd try again to climb Popo, as he called it, but he wouldn't make it. He never made it to the top, he never reached the peak of Popocatepetl. But he kept trying to climb the mountain, and he'd have spent his entire life trying to climb Popocatepetl. He made a heroic effort, although he never managed to reach that summit. So there you see his strength of character. That gives you some idea of his spiritual strength, his constancy." - Fidel Castro interviewed in My Life: A Spoken Autobiography

Che and Antonio Núñez Jiménez after the victory at Santa Clara, 1958

Che and Jimenez after the revolutionary forces triumphed at the Battle of Santa Clara just as 1958 ended. Within a day of this photo being taken the dictator Batista fled Havana and the revolution triumphed, January 1, 1959. Che was wearing a cast as he had been injured previously during fighting at Caibarién.

Jiménez went on to serve the new government in various capacities. He was a noted academic, anthropologist, and writer and was honoured as a revolutionary hero when he died in Havana in 1998.

Che in the captured barracks of the Leoncio Vidal Regiment after the battle of Santa Clara

Che in the captured barracks of the Leoncio Vidal Regiment after the battle of Santa Clara. This was on January 1, 1959, the same day that the dictator Batista fled Havana and the revolution triumphed.

Che was wearing a cast as he had been injured previously during fighting at Caibarién.

Che with his parents in Havana after the triumph of the revolution, 1959

Iconic photo of leaders and heroes of the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos

Born February 6, 1932, Camilo Cienfuegos was one of the principle revolutionary leaders who, along with Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, helped to bring freedom and socialism to Cuba.

Che with his newborn child

A photo of Che with one of his newborn children. The Soviets dated this as 1960, which would mean it was his daughter Aleida, though other sources say it is his daughter Celia which would make it from 1963.

Planning agricultural reforms shortly after the Cuban Revolution

Che, Antonio Núñez Jiménez and Fidel Castro at a meeting dedicated to land reform and redistribution soon after the victory of Cuban Revolution.

Fidel and Che visit the art show at the Soviet Exhibition in Havana, 1960

Che surrounded by children in Revolution Square, Havana, 1960

"Favourite pastime": Che plays chess, Havana c.1960

Che was an avid, and by all accounts serious, chess player. After the revolution he promoted the idea of chess clubs and tournaments in Cuba and did what he could to popularize the game.

Castro and Che talk off the record at a meeting in Cuba c. 1960

Che with a Portrait of José Martí in Havana after the Revolution

Che doing a shift as a loader when he was Minister of Industries during the agrarian reforms after the Cuban Revolution c. 1960

Che works at a sugar plantation when he was Minister of Industries during the agrarian reforms after the Cuban Revolution c. 1960

Che inspects a mine as Minister of Industries c. 1960

Che personally inspects the working and safety conditions at amine in Cuba when he was Minister of Industries.

Che in conversation with Soviet and Chilean industrial specialists, c. 1961 

Che addresses the Punta del Este Conference, August 1961

Che addresses the Organization of American States (OAS) Conference in Uruguay, 1961. At the conference the United States was already working to have Cuba expelled from the OAS which is was several months later.

Che gave two fiery, famous speeches at the conference. From one of them comes this tremendous quote:

The National General Assembly of the People of Cuba—confident that it is expressing the general opinion of the peoples of Latin America—reaffirms that democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan, or with the persecution that drove scientists like Oppenheimer from their posts, deprived the world for years of the marvelous voice of Paul Robeson, held prisoner in his own country, and sent the Rosenbergs to their deaths against the protests of a shocked world, including the appeals of many governments and of Pope Pius XII. The National General Assembly of the People of Cuba expresses the Cuban conviction that democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians, but rather it lies in the right of the citizens to determine their own destiny, as this assembly of the people is now doing. Furthermore, democracy will come to exist in Latin America only when people are really free to make choices, when the poor are not reduced—by hunger, social discrimination, illiteracy, and the legal system—to the most wretched impotence. To sum up, the National General Assembly of the People of Cuba condemns: the exploitation of human by human and the exploitation of the underdeveloped countries by imperialist finance capital.

Che addresses the UN General Assembly, December, 1964

A photo from when Che gave his famous speech to the  19th General Assembly in New York. Che denounced American imperialism and lies and length and quoted from the anti-imperialist Second Declaration of Havana.

It is also remembered for such trenchant moments as when Che said:

The United States intervenes in Latin America invoking the defense of free institutions. The time will come when this Assembly will acquire greater maturity and demand of the U.S. Government guarantees for the life of the blacks and Latin Americans who live in that country, most of them U.S. citizens by origin or adoption.

Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men — how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom? We understand that today the Assembly is not in a position to ask for explanations of these acts. It must be clearly established, however, that the government of the United States is not the champion of freedom, but rather the perpetrator of exploitation and oppression against the peoples of the world and against a large part of its own population.

Che's last family photo, end of 1964

Apparently the last known family photo of Che with his second wife Aleida March and their four kids.

Che addresses a meeting at the House of Unions, Moscow, June 1960

Che was addressing a large audience at an event celebrating the new Soviet - Cuban friendship after the revolution. The House of Unions was run by the Moscow Council of Trade Unions in the Soviet era.

Che visits Lenin's office at the Kremlin, Moscow, 1960

Che visits Lenin's Mausoleum, 1960

Che in Red Square, Moscow, 1960

Che and Yuri Gagarin share a laugh

Wonderful photo of Che and Gagarin. It is not dated but is likely from 1964 in Moscow. Gagarin, in addition to be being the first person in space, of course, was also president of the Soviet-Cuban Friendship Society.

Che inspects a Soviet satellite at the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy in Moscow, 1960

Che meets Aram Khachaturian, Moscow, December 1960

 Khachaturian was a famed Soviet composer from the Armenian SSR

A different look for Che

Che just prior to leaving Cuba for the last time. Undated, but likely early 1965.

Che in disguise in Bolivia, November 1966

The first known photo of Che in Bolivia. Amazingly, that is him on the right in disguise. He had entered the country using a fake passport posing as an Uruguayan businessman after altering his appearance in several ways to, among other things, look older.

Che on lookout duty, Bolivia, 1967

Che in the mountains of Bolivia with the children of local peasants, 1967