Hi Michael, > On May 12, 2026, at 23:00, RKOB via groups.io <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hamas did certainly not establish democracy in the besieged enclave of Gaza > (much more besieged than Cuba ever was). But it allowed various other secular > and religious parties with different positions and ideologies to exist, to > hold public rallies, to have armed militias, etc. (PFLP, DFLP, PIJ, Popular > Resistance Committees, etc.). In contrast, the Cuban regime allows only the > existence of a single party - the ruling PCC. These are well-known facts or > do you deny these? > Why are these facts, well-known or not, relevant to defending either of the two nations' right to self determination? I think your focus on a critique of Castroism at best muddles the political defense of Cuba's right to self determination. "Hands Off Cuba" is the demand we lead with, not some arcane political critique that echoes what the imperialist press is pushing (https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41715). > Furthermore, the Palestinian resistance has fought against the imperialist > aggressor five wars since 2008 ... and survived under huge sacrifices even > the genocidial war in the last three years. What has been the record of the > Cuban regime in fighting imperialism in the past two decades? Yes, they > provided a few dozen bodyguards to Maduro and many of them were killed by the > Yankees on 3 January (clearly these bodyguards fought in contrast to the > coward Bolivarian regime in Caracas). But compared with the Palestinians, > this is not much of anti-imperialist resistance! > Although they may disappoint some of us in the metropolises, the Cubans have resisted Yankee imperialism ell before the revolution in 1959. They have suffered mightily from the collapse of the USSR and setbacks to world revolutions since that time. Now the US President has all but declared war on Cuba. Consistent anti-imperialism demands Hands Off Cuba rather than Cuban regime change.
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