Cuba: Next to the people in the streets, against the repression of the bureaucracy and the opportunism of imperialism
By Alejandro Bodart YVicente Gaynor
Thousands of Cubans took to the streets on Sunday 11 of July, protesting the lack of food, drugs and prolonged power outages amid a deep economic crisis, aggravated by the pandemic and the rogue blockade of Yankee imperialism. The regime responded with brutal repression, dispersing the mobilizations with sticks, tear gas and hundreds of arrests. President Miguel Díaz-Canel called the protests "actions of political destabilization" promoted by Washington and called on his followers to take to the streets to confront them..
Since imperialism tries to take advantage of the mobilization and its permanent intervention finds expression in some slogans and posters that have been seen, as "down with communism" or "Homeland and Life", in reference to the song composed by musicians worms in Miami. But it is false that imperialism is the driving force behind the massive and widespread mobilization that we are witnessing.. It is the authentic and spontaneous exhaustion of the Cuban working people against the bureaucratic oppression and the anger against the adjustment that the regime has been applying that caused this upheaval of historical characteristics. The blockade that the United States has maintained against Cuba for decades plays a very important role in the hardships that are experienced on the island. But it has been the capitalist restoration policy and the savage adjustment of the regime itself in recent years that has deteriorated living conditions in such a way that it has become unbearable for the majority of the population..
The restoration process has been accelerating in the last decade, from the reforms of Raúl Castro that implied the dismissal of 600.000 public employees between 2010 Y 2014, the entry of private activity in branches such as hotels and transport, the investment law of 2014 that authorized the entry of companies with the 100% of foreign capital and the delivery to private producers of a third of the state lands in usufruct, among other measures, crowned by the constitutional reform of 2018 that granted constitutional recognition to private ownership of the means of production and foreign investment. The growing capitalist openness has intensified the economic dependence on the dollars that come in from tourism, For this reason, the retraction caused by the pandemic dealt a very hard blow to the island's economy..
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And the Cuban government responded in the style of the best capitalist governments: adjusting the people again., Díaz-Canel and Raúl Castro announced a unification of the exchange rate that meant a devaluation of 2400%. He 1 from January, anniversary of the revolution, A package of measures to “suppress unnecessary gratuities” came into force, drastically reducing social and public policies. The deepening of the economic crisis has generated a combination of inflation., shortages of food and other basic goods and long power “blackouts” during the hottest days of summer, at the same time that the Covid pandemic reached a peak, exceeding the 6000 daily contagions.This disaster, together with the accumulated satiety against the authoritarianism of the one-party regime, It is the one that has led thousands of Cubans throughout the island to desperately take to the streets to demand a response to the hunger and scarcity they are suffering.. "We are going through really difficult times", said dance teacher Miranda Lazara, "We need a system change". Another protester said, I'm here from hunger, because there are no medicines, due to power outages, because everything is missing ".
Of course, The United States will try to take advantage of the legitimate anger of the Cuban people, as it does all over the world against the governments with which it confronts. It is essential to oppose any interference by imperialism and denounce the cynicism of the world's main adjuster and violator of human rights.. But that doesn't mean you can support the Cuban government and regime., who has embarked on a China-style capitalist restoration, adjustment after adjustment through and unbridled repression of its people when they demand in defense of their rights.
Imperialism will strengthen in Cuba to the extent that the government continues to disillusion its people and the revolutionaries do not present themselves as an alternative to the restoration and the lack of freedoms of the workers to decide their destiny.. Imperialism will try to take advantage of the situation to advance its agenda. It is also possible that the regime ends up appearing as the only alternative to imperialism and defeats the mobilizations., imposing repression and a more bloody adjustment, as we have seen in Nicaragua and Venezuela. We are betting that the mobilization turns to the left and advances towards a political revolution that recovers a socialist course and installs a regime of workers' democracy in Cuba.. For this to happen, it is essential that we revolutionaries support the legitimate demands of the Cuban people., and the left-wing militants who are at the head of them and are repressed and imprisoned by the regime.
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In fact, They are not CIA agents who have been arrested, but socialist activists like Frank García Hernández, Marxist historian and member of Communists Blog, Maikel González Vivero, LGBT+ activist and director of Tremenda Nota magazine, or Antonio Pérez Fernández, student who had already been arrested for carrying a sign that said “socialism yes”, "no repression". Surely if she were alive our dear colleague and friend Celia Hart would also be arrested. As part of the International Socialist League, we oppose all imperialist interference, We defend the independence of Cuba unconditionally and fight to defeat the criminal blockade of the United States. At the same time, We support the right of the Cuban people to demonstrate in defense of their legitimate claims and against the capitalist adjustment and restoration promoted by the government and the bureaucratic regime.. We demand the immediate release of prisoners for demonstrating and we defend their claims and the democratic freedoms that the regime denies them..
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