SOCIALISM, THE FUTURE OF MANKIND?

vol. 1, no. 22

On November 17th 2010, International Student’s Day, Fidel Castro spoke to Cuban Students at the University of Havana. A word about this day: it is to recall the revolt of Czech students against Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in the 1940s and their shooting by the Werhmacht.

Fidel is lucid. He related the colonial and capitalist past of the Island, the current obstacles to develop the country and the future of its people. Independent Cuba was established in 1959 after the overthrow of the US-back regime of Batista. Gradually, they embark on the socialist road of development. But as says Fidel, nobody knew exactly what was socialism.

Even today, mass media, describing the situation in Cuba, deem that it is the dream of only one man: Fidel Castro. Thus, they propagate the message, including in Cuba, that once Fidel will die, the whole country will come back into the capitalist circle. That is: wealth for a minority and hard toil for the majority with the loss of gains, especially in Education, Health and Social Welfare.

Already, there are forces, -organized furthermore-, who speculate on the economic difficulties of Cuba and make a lot of money for private interests, delinquent people that one can call parasites. Fidel does not hide this reality. These people, bandits (that he calls), use the public goods and services to enrich themselves, for instance with the delivery of oil for « new rich » consumers.
(Photo Internet: Fidel Castro and Malcom X in New York, 1960).



Almost everybody who went to Cuba for holiday will tell you a story of some Cuban people, including officials, who made special « arrangements » with tourists to get more dollars. It is worthy to stress that those tourists are more than often petty bourgeois elements of developed countries like Canada. Fidel call upon the Cuban people and the youth to combat corruption and carelessness, because it can be defeated.

But it was not the crux of his speech. He dealt with the failure of the last G-20 meeting in South Korea. The Montréal newspaper Métro (November 12-14, 2010) explains the rivalry about the currencies, for instance. The US dollar is actually losing ground.

When we look at Cuba, we know that nevertheless the hardships, the power remains in the hands of the people, not the Castro’s ones (whaterver repeats the Right), to be accurate. At the opposite in Québec, the liberal government, in response to the Left, just promise, as reported also in Métro, that « reforms' suggestions on the process of elections will be evaluated starting January 2011 ». In fact, there is only one elected left deputy, representing the party Québec solidaire. This party seeks proportional elections, since the trend to support the Left is always stronger in Québec, and in the whole of Canada, especially with the economic crisis, that is experiencing the Canadian people.

This newsletter has spoken very often about Joseph Stalin; however it has nothing to do with a cult of personality. The purpose was to give full scope to a man that the Western mass media depicted as a « monster », a « red tyrant » and the like. On the other hand, this coverage does not have as a goal to give, for instance, a false appreciation of what he did and to counterbalance it through the prosperity he achieved in Soviet Union on the other one.

That is one of the reason why Pour la KOMINTERN now! supports the idea that there should be a commission to study Stalin case, to get rid of impressions, allegations, hearsays and any other brainwashing approaches, notably in the large capitalist countries, where the big Capital is using the mass media to control the minds and consciences of workers and let them ideologically disarmed in face of multinationals and big corporations pundits… The working class has no « real choices ». Meanwhile bourgeois media say: “capitalism as a system is good!” And they add: « can’t you get it into your thick head?” In fact, the working people are not that gullible.

At the same time, Métro and other media in Canada, including in Italy, spill ink to « inform » the public: « Rizutto a été tué d’une seule balle », (Rizutto has been shot by one bullet). It relates the murder of one mafia boss in Canada, at length. Naturally, the written press, around this day, was an excellent sold out.

Do they represent the kind of people that the workers expect to follow as opponents to the capitalist system; while organized crime benefit from it; from the fear they instil in the ordinary people mind and the orgy of dollars they gather through all their traffics, not to specify “drugs” made available to young people, very often disillusioned by the absence of job perspectives.

As the Young Communist League of Canada (YCL) repeats, we must struggle for a Life with a Future. It is probably why there was such an outstanding success for the 25th Central Convention of the YCL September 24-26 at the University of Toronto.

They are now gearing for the World Festival of Youth and Students that will take place in South Africa, in December 2010. To know more about it, just contact: fmjequebec@gmail.com

(Photo SolidNet: Hugo Chavez-Venezuela, and Raoul Castro-Cuba, 2010).

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