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The People's Iron Fist vs Imperialist Jackboots: Revolutionaries and Anti-Communists Clash in Cuba
- Thread starter Jeff Robinson
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Yes, teenaged tankies labelling anarchists over the age of 30 as 'anarkiddies'. Truly ridiculous. Just like the OP and title of this thread.
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Is the problem in Cuba that anarchists are banned ?
Yeah theres no anarchists in the 'third world'
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Okay let’s check back in what, ten years and let’s see. I predict Cuba will either basically be run how it is now or it’ll be a regular capitalist state. If it’s an anarcho-paradise I guess I’ll just have to admit you were right all along
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Can you find one post where someone called anyone ‘anarkiddies’? No you can’t and please don’t quote Noxion because he was referencing a thread from a different board
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
I think it's fair to say that there is a struggle from the left within Cuban society, and also that there are foreign powers who would seek to take advantage of any instability. What is actually in contention here? Is it the fact that the Cuban government has gotten up to some awful shit? I don't think so. The prospect of Cuba becoming some kind of multi-party democracy is purely hypothetical at this point, surely? So any conditions under which this would happen would have be notional.
The two most recent examples of countries which have undergone punishing sanctions before a regime change, do not make any such happening in the present look promising to me.
The two most recent examples of countries which have undergone punishing sanctions before a regime change, do not make any such happening in the present look promising to me.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
Just checking. Do you really believe that, or are you just being provocative?
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Was just coming to post that - really good thread
He seems to mean it judging by his entire thread dedicated to red totalitarian societies and military parades etc:
Redtube (no not that one) and Communist Videos
So we've got our breadtube thread, I think we also need a 'redtube' one too. Post your favourite communist nostalgia/propaganda videos here! I'll start off with two: Afghanistan during the PDPA days: Absolute banger from Yugoslavia: We are with Marshall Tito!
www.urban75.net
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
'Fidel himself was legitimately popular' is a highly questionable statement. When I lived in Cuba 20 years ago, that was already very far from the whole truth. People have to be extremely careful about what they say, even to family members - one of the hallmarks of totalitarianism - but as an outsider, I was someone some people felt they could open up to without fear of the consequences. There was seething resentment under the surface over the years and years and years of stagnation, shortages and repression.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
One of Those Things -Dexy's
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Also on Cuba, worth noting that as of 2018 it had gone from being somewhere that was traditionally willing to harbour political refugees and fugitives from the US to somewhere that was willing to hand fugitives over to the Trump administration. I hope Assata is watching her back.
I wasn't referring to this thread, or indeed any thread here on Urban.
Flavour
hang the bankers
didn't realize you were a tankie, Jeff Robinson
seventh bullet
sovietwave
He seems to mean it judging by his entire thread dedicated to red totalitarian societies and military parades etc:
Redtube (no not that one) and Communist Videos
So we've got our breadtube thread, I think we also need a 'redtube' one too. Post your favourite communist nostalgia/propaganda videos here! I'll start off with two: Afghanistan during the PDPA days: Absolute banger from Yugoslavia: We are with Marshall Tito!
Jeff is taking the piss.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
US Professor of governance estimates here that the Trump/Biden sanctions have negatively impacted the standard of living of 60% of Cuban families and has also meant that the government has a lot less foreign exchange currency to be able to import food and medicine. The sheer barbarity of US imperialism is just staggering.
Cuba has provided medical solidarity to deprived communities around the world and this is how they are treated in turn, in the middle of a pandemic? Repulsive.
Cuba has provided medical solidarity to deprived communities around the world and this is how they are treated in turn, in the middle of a pandemic? Repulsive.
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Some links from the later sections of that giant twitter thread:
havanatimes.org
havanatimes.org
www.comunistascuba.org
Unprecedented Events in Cuba Demand Politics not War - Havana Times
What’s happening in Cuba is as serious as it is unprecedented. Diaz-Canel sounded the war horn: “the streets belong to the revolutionaries”.
havanatimes.org
The Cuban President and his Call to Battle - Havana Times
“Combat order?” I imagine all Cuba was as stupefied as I was, when these words emerged from the mouth of President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
havanatimes.org
Reclamo por la libertad de los detenidos en Cuba
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Pretty short and doesn't add much to the above, but here's another English-language article:
www.leftvoice.org
Cuba: Freedom for Frank García Hernández and Other Detainees - Left Voice
On Sunday, Cuban communist Frank García Hernández was arrested at a protest in Havanna. The government of Miguel Díaz-Canel is attacking critical communists whose aim is to defend the gains of the Cuban Revolution.
www.leftvoice.org
A decent article about the repression of the anarchist movement in Cuba
blackrosefed.org
Cuba and the Demonization of Anarchists: A Lesson for Our Times
Rafael Uzcategui writes on the perception of the anarchist movement to the Cuban Revolution and the new state's efforts to demonize those who were critical.
blackrosefed.org
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Unofficial English translation of comrade President Miguel Díaz-Canel's speech 'Revolutionaries to the Streets!':
www.liberationnews.org
Cuban President Díaz-Canel: Revolutionaries to the Streets!
This speech provides crucial context and information being covered up by the corporate media in the United States. #antiimperialism #cuba #internationalsolidarity
www.liberationnews.org
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
One of the many contradictions of Cuba. We are Revolutionaries!
The revolution happened in 1959. Most Cubans alive today weren't even born. The Institutionalised Revolution. The Permanent Revolution. It's Orwellian doublethink. It's one of the reasons why Cuba has been stuck for 60 years.
The revolution happened in 1959. Most Cubans alive today weren't even born. The Institutionalised Revolution. The Permanent Revolution. It's Orwellian doublethink. It's one of the reasons why Cuba has been stuck for 60 years.
They've never been revolutionaries. A revolution is when the people (especially the working class) overthrow the ruling class and their bourgeois capitalist system, not merely become just another repressive bourgeois maintaining a capitalist system like the leaders of Cuba.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Maintaining a socialist revolution on a poor third world island with the world's most powerful ever capitalist empire on your doorstep turns out to require vigilance and work.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Either that or it's gradually turned into something else - a deeply corrupt system that is primarily concerned with maintaining itself.
A very high proportion of young people in Cuba just want to leave. I don't blame them. No amount of lectures about what El Che and Fidel and Camilo did will change that.
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