On what would have been Fidel Castro's 100th birthday, Cuba is under its most severe siege since 1959. A six-month US naval blockade has cut off oil, worsened by the collapse of Venezuelan supply after Washington's January attack. I am joined by Francisco Dominguez, founding member of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, and Carlos Martinez, author and co-editor of the Friends of Socialist China website, to trace Fidel's revolutionary audacity from the Moncada Barracks assault through his personal command of the Bay of Pigs victory, where a CIA-trained invasion was crushed in 72 hours, to the internationalism that sent hundreds of thousands of Cuban troops to defeat apartheid South Africa at Cuito Cuanavale. We discuss what his refusal to capitulate when the Soviet Union collapsed, and China, Russia, Brazil, and Mexico's coordinated support today, tell  ...