Cuban Film Festival in Bradford - 50th Anniversary
Cliche Guevara | 20.12.2008 18:49 | Education | Other Press | Social Struggles
Cliche Guevara
Cliche Guevara | 20.12.2008 18:49 | Education | Other Press | Social Struggles
Cliche Guevara
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50 years
21.12.2008 13:25
There's nothing to celebrate about Cuba's last half century.
Pete
Great
22.12.2008 15:57
How about Havana Indymedia will they be writing an article on the festival ?
Maybe a number of the candiates in the upcoming free and democratic general elections could show their support and gain extra votes in their bid to be the next president of Cuba ?
The repressive Cuban dictatorship is nothing to celebrate, it is certainly not Communist or Socialist and the idea that anybody who holds Left of centre political views in the UK would be a supporter of it is stupid. The people of Cuba have lived for 50 years under the regime of a single family who think they have some right to govern the people.
The attempts by some here and on other Leftist sites to portray Cuba has worthy of support from those of us seeking a Socialist world is insulting.
Barry Norman
50 Years
24.12.2008 17:02
Gary
to Gary
26.12.2008 07:48
human rights watch
To Human Rights Watch
27.12.2008 16:36
It's not a perfect country by a long chalk but that is where the odd dichotamy arose. Although leader of the party Fidel didn't always agree with the legislative board. He was against internment and personally against the death penalty yet the party kept voting to keep both these things. The very fact that he wasn't a dictator meant that the processes he was accused of being dictatorial over remain in place.
Gary
thanks Gary
28.12.2008 13:34
I would certainly agree that all nation states are culpable of abusing Human Rights, and wouldn't want to imply that any other state (eg. UK) is virtuous in this regard.
The thing that matters to me is that if even such a well-intentioned socialist revolution as Cuba's can end up doing so many bad things, surely we must realise that these problems are inherent to all states? And that as long as we continue to live in nation states, these kind of problems will continue?
For me, that is a strong argument for looking to forms of social organisation and community that don't rely on the state or better still, make the state an irrelevance.
human rights watch
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28.12.2008 15:14
This event is not necessarily an uncritical look at the Cuban Revolution. Yet, the purpose of the event is to celebrate the good things done by the revolution, something which many democratic nation states could learn a thing or two from. The films are there for information purposes.
Cliche Guevara
To Human Rights Watch
28.12.2008 20:35
Although not an anarchist myself I do agree with much of the writing of Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin on this matter.
I also believe in a lot of the writings of Gerard Winstanley during the English Civil War. I would not defend Cuba's human rights record but neither would I cite it as being anywhere near as terrible as that of the USA and other major developed countrys.
Gary
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