Ramirez, of the Ideological Department at the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) Central Committee, will speak this morning at the Juan Marinello Institute in this capital, after his paper was rescheduled from its original time.

The meeting will also address, in the morning, the crisis of the left, moderated by Alejandro Guma, with papers by Fabio Fernandez, Daniel Rafuls, and Llanisca Lugo.

Later, the panel “Visions of a Historical Legacy,” coordinated by Victor Oliva, will bring together specialists such as Leonor Amaro, Dariana Hernandez, Ashley Geronim, and Enrique Camacho, who will speak on social education, revolutionary iconography, and political culture.

The panel “Fidel and the Internationalist Project” will feature, in the afternoon, Tanalis Padilla, Dino Amador Allende, Victor Luis Benitez, and Ileana Maria Echevarria.

They will analyze medical missions, the Cuban perspective on the Middle East, and the relationship of the Cuban Revolution with the Third World.

The International Seminar on the Contributions of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro in the Cultural Sphere opened with keynote addresses on sectarianism and socialist culture, class consciousness, the unity of the left, and the importance of economic culture in revolutionary hegemony.

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