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We celebrate 25 years of the inaugural assistance flight that marked the beginning of the Integral Health Agreement between Cuba and Venezuela, a model, exemplary, and unique relationship; sustained by unity and deep loyal, and Chavista friendship. This alliance is not guided by selfish or material interests, but by complementarity solidarity, and the supreme value of cooperation, based on the idea: win-win.
Our heart and mind turn to the giant of America, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, whose work changed the history not only of Cuba but also of Latin America and the Caribbean. Fidel forged the era of new independence and revolution, demonstrating the strength and relevance that only great leaders possess. His light, along with that of Commander Chávez, is today guiding the struggles of the peoples of the world.
Fidel bequeathed us a fundamental concept: the ability to turn adversities into struggle and victory, and to transform victories into opportunities for progress. Despite countless campaigns of discredit and attempts to harm him physically and morally, his indomitable spirit prevailed.
Assata’s story is one that many living in Lënapehòkink (The Bronx) and across the U.S. empire at large may recognize or relate to. Her insistence on life and her years of fighting for the liberation of Black people living under state violence serve as a reminder to us all to remain “reluctant warriors” in the face of U.S. state terrorism. It was Assata’s militant comrades in the Black Liberation Army who liberated her from incarceration by the state; they did not abandon her after she was apprehended. They understood, as Palestinians do, that there was no future for their movement without that freedom. Let us remember the comrades who broke her out, some of whom served decades in prison and some of whom remain incarcerated. Salute to Sekou Odinga, Silas Muhammad, Mtayari Shabaka Sundiata, Winston Patterson, Silvia Baraldini, Marilyn Buck, Mutulu Shakur and other BLA comrades.
Another tiger-trap is the “National Bolshevik” movement. To be clear, I am a Bolshevik (from the Chinese perspective) – but I am not a nationalist (Indeed, I am an “Internationalist” – a Maoist no less). The “Naz-Bol” movement evolved out of a fascist-infected (post-1991) Russia. This movement integrates Hitler’s ideology with a post-1945 US (Cold War) misidentification of Joseph Stalin. This flawed ideology misinforms that there is “no difference” between historical Hitler and a fictional Stalin. Well, 41 million dead and wounded Soviet citizens would beg to differ. Naz-Bols combine Marxist-Leninist economics with Hitler’s warped theories on race. This rejects the Marxist idea of “Internationalism”. On the face of it, these deluded individuals will talk highly of Stalin (as I do) – and then state he is no different to Hitler (which I definitely do not) – claiming both were ruthlessly racist (a complete lie – Stalin wasn’t even Russian).
Cuban historiography agrees on pointing out that it was a sabotage prepared at the embarkation point by agents at the service of the United States to prevent the arrival of the shipment of arms and ammunition in Cuba. At the burial of the victims (March 5), Fidel Castro said for the first time the slogan that would accompany the Cuban revolutionary process until today: Homeland or Death.
The academician further explained that while the process of decolonization of Africa had begun in the 1950s, the Cuban Revolution (1952-1959) and its figures provided a significant impetus. He argued that the influence of the revolution went beyond political independence, advocating a complete break with economic, social, and cultural ties to former colonizers.
🗣 “Then, throughout the following decades, Cuba, its support will not be limited only to this armed support, but Cuba, and I repeat, will be vital in the independence of Angola, of Namibia, of several of these colonies, which in turn will also influence revolutionary processes in Europe, as in Portugal, the Carnation Revolution,” Prof. Cabrales stated.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 