Some adversaries of socialism are now boasting that with the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the Socialism of the 21st Century movement has been orphaned and they are predicting — as much as yearning — its accelerated demise.
Read MoreYesterday, he mistook me for a tourist and offered to take a snapshot of me using his “old technique.” He was the first of his type of photographer I’d seen in a while. I used to see them all the time on the steps of the Capitolio Building (now under repair) offering to take shots of tourists. (11 photos)
Read More“The opposite isn’t the enemy,” writes a young Cuban philosopher, Boris Gonzalez, full of concern about Cuba’s current situation and prospects. That thought inspired me to write this article.
Read MoreThe Cuban Revolution began the second stage of the independence of “Our America”; but today it is our responsibility to learn the way independence is being best guaranteed by the Bolivarian peoples of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.Chavez’s call for dialogue and “coexistence,” as well as his recognition of the role of the opposition are new paradigmatic milestones of the new form of socialism being sought.
Read MoreThe little expression “anti-capitalist” is very much in vogue today “We’re anti-capitalists.” Our position is “anti-capitalist.” Our revolutionary program is “anti-capitalist.” “Down with the capitalist enemy.” “Death to the capitalists.” This is how many people express themselves. Yet reading and listening to some of these “anti-capitalists,” I’m amazed to find that they defend state capitalism.
Read MoreOur “parliamentary” system is actually the same as what existed under failed “real socialism” – in the so-called “people’s democracies” and the “state of all the people” in the USSR.
Read MoreThere will be no shortage of newfangled and traditional neo-Stalinists criticizing the fact that we hope to democratize the Cuban political-electoral system. They will specifically object to our inclusion of the issues of human rights covenants.
Read MoreSupporters of the Cuban group Participative and Democratic Socialism (SPD) are calling on citizens to take part in “an affirmative action for democracy” in the upcoming general elections to take place in October.
Read MoreMany of the decisions being made in Cuba are not supported scientifically, but pragmatically, and not according to the demands of the circumstances, but according to prevailing bureaucratic interests.
Read MoreA slogan for mobilizing people in the US and the rest of capitalist world identifies the less than 1 percent of the population that possess the real political-economic power. In Cuba too, less than 1 percent of the population decides the fate of more than 11 million Cubans, the more than 99 percent of the rest.
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