
Interview with comrade Gustavo Rodriguez (Third and final part). Read also part one and two.
Continue reading What’s happening in Cuba? [Part 3]Enough 14 is not organizing any of these events, we are publishing these texts for people across the US and Europe to be able to see what is going on and for documentation only. - On February 1, 2021, our online shop will be closed. We have had too many delays with our suppliers due to Corona restrictions. All orders that were ordered until February 1, 2021, will be delivered. Thank you for your support.
Translation of an article by Proletarios Revolucionarios on Cuba from July 18, 2021.
Continue reading Cuba’s burning? – Analysis of the current crisis and revolt in Cuba from a radical communist perspectiveThe repressive social enchantment that kept the greater part of the outmoded international left pacified has vanished. Beneath the “Cuban Revolution”, and against the grain of its benign image, the “Cuban State” has emerged publicly, in all its crudeness and repressive grandiloquence. The same Cuban state that created – in order to confront Yankee imperialism – an omnipresent political police that fights the society kept under its control. The same Cuban state that destroyed – in the name of socialism – all popular and workers organizations that, with their histories of struggle, made the declared socialist conquests a daily reality. That same Cuban state that has turned solidarity into an internationally renown branding, at the cost of keeping us sunk in mistrust and fear among neighbors. The same Cuban state that – in the midst of the intensified Yankee blockade – builds more hotels for foreign tourists than infrastructures to produce food, fruits and milk. The same Cuban state that has produced the only vaccines in Latin America against covid-19, but maintains its health personnel in a condition of salaried employees of the political police.
Continue reading Cuba: The end of the “revolution’s” social enchantmentThis week on the Final Straw, we’re sharing another audio gift from comrades. Isbel Diaz Torres is a participant in the Taller Libertario Alfredo López / ABRA in Havana, Cuba, recorded in late 2018. In this chat, Isbel talks about the ABRA which is the only openly anarchist organization in Cuba at the time, about the LGBTQ movement and abortion rights which are both facing repression due to pressure from Cuban Evangelical and Catholic churches on the Cuban government, political discourse and difference, government co-optation, neoliberalism, animal rights, repression of dissent and the erasure of anarchist history.
Continue reading An Anarchist View from Havana: Isbel Diaz TorresHavana, Cuba – Following tensions around the cancellation of the state sponsored LGBT march and the effort by activists to call for an independently organized one, two anarchist and LGBT activists, Isbel Diaz Torres and partner Jimmy Roque Martinez, are believed to have been detained by Cuban authorities.
Continue reading Solidarity with Detained Cuban Anarchist and #LGBT ActivistsNehanda Abiodun, a New Afrikan revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away on January 30. Abiodun, who was wanted on charges connected to the 1979 jailbreak of Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur, was living in Cuba where she was granted political asylum.
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