Mass Protests in Cuba

[CumbrianLefty]

Good morning. Cuba deserves to be free. Hopefully this will amount to something tangible in their quest for freedom, but I'm not really optimistic.

Trouble is, for too many "free" means a return to the Batista days.

[CumbrianLefty]

You know, I think things will be rosy after all. Apparently the protesters are Trotskyists or hardish DemSocs if LeftVoice can be believed. That may point to Cuba coopting some of their demands and not going as hard on them as one would think given their recent record of treating protestors of all stripes.

Given the possibility that this protest could get coopted, either by the current leadership or through more unsavory characters forcing a regime change like what went out of hand in 1956 Hungary, a nuanced view must be taken. Critical recognition of the protesters demands for a better, more democratically ran system with reforms attempting to ensure rising living standards. However, the Cuban government has a responsibility to the Cuban people to protect it from any internal and external threat to the people, and thus anyone working to overthrow this government right now for a Dictatorship of the Bourgeoise must be stopped at all costs in the short term.

An addendum I would add is that no matter the course or aftermath of this, the CPC and alternative progressive forces apart and outside of it need to build a blueprint to multi-party democratic elections instead of electing independent politicians as the system operates now. Kadar’s Czechoslovakia accepted every demand of the 1956 People’s Party but that one, and it was a fatal mistake for the workers movement.

Heh (sorry to pick you up on typos today)

[CumbrianLefty]

I mean, you and all those who liked this ARE aware of the CIA's past record, right?

Its not actually necessary to whitewash the present Cuban regime to be wary of this.

[CumbrianLefty]

Socialism has collapsed since 1989. Its an obsolete 19th century ideology.

This sort of stuff isn't clever, just tedious.

[CumbrianLefty]

It is NOT as simple as EVIL WHITEY AND POOR BROWNEY and never has been.

Literally nobody on here is saying that, though.

[CumbrianLefty]

Young Labour.s shows again to the electorate how much the voters made the right choice.

No, what Young Labour actually shows is how much the party's youth section has been a factional bin fire since basically time immemorial

[CumbrianLefty]

Muhammad only turned his cult into a new religion after the Jewish leadership in Mecca rejected his claim to be a prophet. An article in The Times of London at the time of the ISIS crisis said that given what would happen in later centuries, maybe they should have accepted him…

Not many Jews or Muslims in Cuba, is the thing about bringing this up in this thread.

Some people have one track minds.

[CumbrianLefty]

Most people wouldn't disagree, they might also think banging on about it over 70 years later is passe.

[CumbrianLefty]

https://twitter.com/YoungLabourUK/status/1415995244781395975

Can we ditch the Labour elite and promote Young Labour.

It already happened and it resulted in the Tories winning their largest victory since 1987 and Labour suffering their worst defeat since 1935

There were certain other reasons too.

But off topic......

[CumbrianLefty]

I came into this thread hoping to find out what's going on in Cuba and instead it's a bunch of babble about Fatah and the British Labour Party.  Wtf?

Anyone want to fill me in on the Cuba story?  Haven't been paying attention.

Those posts are from mid 2021, the thread has just been updated with actual Cuban news

[CumbrianLefty]

Would be wonderful for Raul Castro to live long enough to see his regime collapse. I doubt it somehow.

It has only lasted 65 years thus far, after all.