Cuba Solidarity Campaign

[Che1990]

Discuss your views on the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, what they stand for and wether you support them etc.

[The Feral Underclass]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2005, 04:33 PM
Discuss your views on the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, what they stand for and wether you support them etc.
What are your views on them?

They are sending would-be young radical volunteers to work and support an authoritarian "socialist" regime that won't exist in a decade.

[spartafc]

I think the membership is probably quite varied so you could say many contrasting things about them - all of which would be partly true.

However, regarding some of their national aims - I'd support an end to the blockade and defend the gains made by the Cuban revolution. Of course the country needs to realise real workers' democracy in Cuba (not too much of that) as part of a socialist Latin America.

[chebol]

TAT wrote:
"They are sending would-be young radical volunteers to work and support an authoritarian "socialist" regime that won't exist in a decade. "

I say, with all respect, 'go piss up a rope'. The argument that the cuban revolution won't last a decade was very popular two decades ago at the height of the crisis of glasnost and reaganomic world politics.
It was also very in vogue after the collapse of the USSR in the miami swill that breeds maggots and flies which dream of buzzing around Castro's corpse. Cuba's "imminent collapse" is about as imminent as that giant asteroid hitting your house, especially now that the venezuelan revolution is deepening.
I predict that predictions of Cuba's demise are grossly inaccurate (as indeed they have been for 50 years). Reality check, comrade.

spartafc wrote:
"Of course the country needs to realise real workers' democracy in Cuba (not too much of that) as part of a socialist Latin America. "
Once again, that's exactly what cuba is doing (state and all) by supporting the growth of the revolution in venezuela.

[Andy Bowden]

I am a member of CSC. We are of course, brilliant :)

Still, regardless of what comrades may think of Castro, I think it should be acknowledged that the CSC has worked very hard against possible US invasion of Cuba - by ensuring Brit MP's clarify their position on any possible aggression to hold them in check if their is US/UK aggression against Cuba.