From: "Nicolas G." <libertarioantifa-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Cuba es Libre, Sin Cuba Nada Seria Igual!
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 02:10:17 PDT



>Support anarchism in Cuba. Boycott tourism to Cuba!
>Don't help Castro's authoritarian regime!

Now, I know American anarchism is particularly marginal, and through your 
problems with primitivists and lifestylists, etc. it has lost a lot of it's 
grasp on the real world, but this is getting bad.

These anti-Castro statements are direct attacks on the Cuban revolution, a 
revolution carried out by some of the most heroic men and women ever, and a 
revolution that has practically wiped out illiteracy in Cuba, given it one 
of America's lowest infant mortality rates, and given it's people a decent 
standard of living.

All this despite the repeated attacks and the dirty war waged on it by the 
USA.  Now, don't miunderstand me, I am not a Marxist, and I will not try to 
convince anybody that Cuba is the workers paradise or a bastion of freedom, 
it certainly isn't and the fact that there is a important repression there 
is undeniable.  However, what Cuba is is the last bastion of resistance to 
the power of the market and multinational in all of latin america, and this 
only 90 miles from the very coasts of the enemy.

To attack Cuba and the revolution is to help make the wolves stronger.  
What, do you believe Castro's fall will lead to an anarchist society in 
Cuba?  Of course not, we all know ( or at least should know ) that if the 
Cuban revolutionaries fall Cuba will become another bourgeoise 
democracy/market dictatorship where rich tourists bask in the sun while 
workers slave and die.

No, while not going out ansd singing the praises of socialist Cuba, I do 
recongnize it not only as the lesser evil today, but also as the best 
possible scenario given the present political situation in america, and an 
accomplishment of comrades willing to sacrifice their lives for a better 
world.

Criticizing Cuba is a lack of respect for all the revolutionaries that died 
battling Batista, and all revolutionaries that fought, and are fighting, 
against economic imperialism in latin america, because where I'm from, 
unlike the U$A, people die for their beliefs and the armed struggle isn't 
over.  So please, think about what you criticize and what would happen 
after.

Anti-imperialist/Anti-Capitalist Solidarity,
   Nicolas G.

PS I suppose you also criticize the murderous drug trafficking FARC-EP 
soldiers nearer than ever to making the revolution in Colombia?


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