Overwhelming majority of the member states of the UN denounces the embargo of the US against Cuba. The arbitrary austerity measures equal to an undeclared war, the economic and social effects of which are unbearable for the people of Cuba.

The aim of the "New American Century" project of the Washington leadership is to stabilise inequality and create American hegemony in the world for any price, however Apocalyptic. The World Social Forum demands justice and survival.

Is there a future for the working class as an organized political and history-shaping force? Hardly, on the short run. The Left, however, has only got a future if it doesn't give up the critique and reform of capitalism and the hope and possibility for a more just system.