Re: [Marxism] Thoughts on King Day: 2011
but to deeper confusion. = WALTER LIPPMANN Los Angeles, California Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/ Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo = Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here are a few thoughts from Fidel Castro on this horrific event: Reflections by Comrade Fidel AN ATROCIOUS ACT Sad news was broadcast this afternoon from the United States: Gabrielle Giffords, Democratic congresswoman for Arizona, was the victim of a criminal attempt while taking part at a political meeting at her electoral district in Tucson. On the other side of the border lies Mexico, the Latin American country to which that territory used to belong when, in an unjust war, more than one half of its area was seized from it. Along its arid surface, many of those who emigrate from Mexico, Central America and other Latin American countries try to escape hunger, poverty and the underdevelopment to which those countries have been led by the United States. Money and goods can freely cross the border; human beings cannot. Without mentioning the drugs and weapons that cross that line in either direction. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans who work in that country doing the toughest and worst paid jobs are captured each year and sent back to their points of departure, many times separated from their closest kin. They were hoping that the new administration would correct that criminal and inhuman policy. According to just-arrived news, 18 people were shot and six died, among them a 9-year-old girl and Federal Judge John Roll. The congresswoman was seriously wounded by a bullet in the head. Doctors were fighting to save her life. She is married to NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. She was first elected to Congress in 2006 at the age of 36. “She is a supporter of migrant reform, stem cell research and alternative energy”, measures that are hated by the far right. She was re-elected as the Democratic representative in the past elections. When her father was asked whether she had any enemies, he replied: The entire Tea Party”. It is known that the former US vice-presidential candidate in the 2008 elections and Tea Party leader, Sarah Palin, published on her website, as the aim for supporters of her party, a map of the congressional districts of 20 of the representatives who had backed President Obama's proposed health reform bill and she had them marked with the viewfinder of a rifle. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' political opponent was a former Marine who appeared in the electoral campaign with an M-16 in a message which apparently stated: Help get rid of Gabrielle Giffords...shoot the entire ammo chamber of an M-16 with Jesse Kelly. In March 2010, Gabrielle's district office was attacked. She stated that when people do that they were going to have to be aware of the consequences; political leaders should get together and set limits. Any sensible person could well wonder whether such an act happened in Afghanistan or in an electoral district in Arizona. Obama stated: “…an unspeakable tragedy, a number of Americans were shot…” “And while we are continuing to receive information, we know that some have passed away, and that Representative Giffords is gravely wounded…”. “We do not yet have all the answers. What we do know is that such a senseless and terrible act of violence has no place in a free society….” “ I ask all Americans to join me and Michelle in keeping Representative Giffords, the victims of this tragedy, and their families in our prayers.” His appeal is quite dramatic and very sad. Even those of us who don’t share his political or philosophical ideas in the least sincerely hope that no children, judges, congressmen or any US citizen should die in such an absurd and unjustifiable way. It is sad to remember that in the world every year many millions of people are dying as the consequence of absurd wars, poverty, growing famines and the deterioration of the environment promoted by the wealthiest and most developed nations on the planet. We would like Obama and the United States Congress to share those concerns with all the other peoples. Fidel Castro Ruz January 8, 2011 9:11 p.m. = WALTER LIPPMANN Los Angeles, California Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/ Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo = Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Translation (Cuba): By one and all
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Marce Cameron's Cuba Socialist Renewal blog is performing an exceptionally valuable service to all of us whose first language is English by bringing commentaries from the Cuban media out in English translation. Luis Sexto's articles from JUVENTUD REBELDE have been published for years in such sites as PROGRESO WEEKLY which is based in Miami, Karen Lee Wald's Cuba Inside Out, CubaNews and others. Many of these can be found at this location: http://tinyurl.com/lq6ack = WALTER LIPPMANN Los Angeles, California Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/ Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo = Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Cuban medics in Haiti put world to shame
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Manuel Barrera seems to convinced Cuba is led by something of an incompetent group. He fails to see why they fail to see how his ideas on the world revolution have not convinced the leadership in Cuba to go ahead and call a meeting. After all, he wrote them an e-mail and the leadership of the Cuban revolution did not respond! He writes easily of the possibility the Cuban state might exist as no more than a memory, and similarly easily of his own death. This to me reflects somewhat inflated sense of his importance. It's unknown how old Manuel Barrera is, if he's ever been to Cuba, and what practical activity defending Cuba he has ever engaged in. Why Cuba should respond to his entreaties remains thus unclear. Have a nice day. Walter Lippmann Los Angeles, California http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/ Manuel Barrera affirmed: I will defend the Cuban people and the state that they have constructed until it no longer exists and until I die if it is but a memory when that event should occur. FULL: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2010-December/073478.html = WALTER LIPPMANN Los Angeles, California Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/ Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo = Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Sins of South Beach
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Good luck, Louis. You might try to look up a man named Jim DeFede who used to work at the MIAMI HERALD whom they canned after he recorded the words of a politican named Arthur Teele who shortly thereafter committed suicide. DeFede'd written marvelous columns about the Cuban exile world - and NOT as a leftist - and he had made his reputation mostly as a muckracker regarding the Miami universe. I'm sure you'd get an earful from Jim DeFede. Now he works on some local TV news show. http://www.sptimes.com/2005/07/30/State/What_pushed_politicia.shtml = WALTER LIPPMANN Los Angeles, California Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/ Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo = Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Cuban medics in Haiti put world to shame
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Responding to Manuel Barrera's declaration that: I am simply Done with the Cuban Revolution Serving ONLY as an example. The dictates of the class struggle today require immensely more Leadership than simply providing doctors, nurses and educators http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2010-December/073391.html == Changes in US-Cuban relations are taking place daily now. And yet the changes can be hard to comprehend. I know I'm finding it hard to keep up with all of these changes. Several different changes are detailed in this posting. Please read all the way through to the end of this one. Who cannot feel a sense of terrible frustration about the slow pace of political radicalization in the United States, above all in the working class, at a time when social and political decay is stronger and more obvious (to ourselves) than at any time? The accomplishment of the Obama regime, and indeed the reason Obama and his team were hoisted to their positions, has been to reduce active opposition to the wars and austerity being expanded and deepened in the United States of America. As someone who travels to Cuba often and spends a good deal of time there, I often think if only they would do this or that differently, it would be so much better. But unlike some of Cuba's leftist critics, I don't go out on the World Wide Web and try to tell the Cubans what they need to do, and how they need to do it. I really that's rather presumptuous, and all the more so from people living here in the heartland of Cuba's principal antagonist. Disappointed foreigners complaining that Cuba hasn't lived up to their hopes and expectations aren't new. Some people seem to think that Cuba should do for them what they can't do for themselves. This thought-process has been dissected very well by Harvard's Richard Levins in his magnificent essay HOW TO VISIT A SOCIALIST COUNTRY (MR, April 2010) http://www.monthlyreview.org/100401levins.php Cuba provides at once an example of how much can be done in a blockaded country, but not a model to be duplicated in other places. Cuba doesn't claim to be a model anyway, and shouldn't be looked to as a model to be duplicated. Radicals who think of themselves as supporters of the Cuban revolution have been deeply critical of the island's plans to restructure important elements of the Cuban economy now. These are being discussed on the island in the lead-up to the April 2011 congress of the Cuban Communist Party. Students of Cuba who haven't read it may find it useful to take a careful look at the Draft Guidelines which are the basis for discussion in Cuba now, and is available both in Spanish and in an English translation you can read here: http://www.walterlippmann.com/pcc-draft-economic-and-social-policy-guidelines-2010.html Today's Wall Street Journal has a big attack on Cuba's health care system by their Cuba-Basher-in-Chief: Mary Anastasia O'Grady: A Cuban Fairy Tale From PBS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/119855 Another hot development today is the sharp rise in money now being legally send to Cuba from the US: Remittances skyrocket after U.S. allows peso transfer http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/119861 Finally, there's an exceptionally significant new item from the WikiLeaks files related to Cuba, and you are encouraged to read every single line of the text: Simon McGuinness in Ireland writes: Very significant cable about a visit by a US official delegation to Cuba in September 2009 which may hold the origin of the recent move by Cuba to remove taxes on remittances, I presume in return for the USA allowing cash to be received in CUC (Cuban Convertible Peso) via Western Union. This appears to have been as a result of a request by a US student at ELAM that money from her family could be transferred more easily which the US official agreed to take up. Evidence, perhaps, of a gesture and a reciprocating gesture? - SmcG. FULL WIKILEAKS DOCUMENT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/119873 Walter Lippmann Los Angeles, California http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/ = WALTER LIPPMANN Los Angeles, California Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/ Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo = Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
