[Marxism] Re: Che Guevara and the Latin American Revolution

[Ben C <minnows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

José wrote:
Three thousand words (give or take) analyzing "Che Guevara and the Latin
American Revolution" and Cuba is not one of them. 

What planet did these Socialist Review folks just show up from?

Planet Tony Cliff I think -- or even it's satellite, Mike Gonzalez perhaps?

Here's a bit of muckraking on the UK SWP position on Cuba...

(full text at 
http://www.revolutionarycommunistgroup.com/frfi/156/156-ratb.html )

Rock Around The Blockade Roundup
From On 9 July RATB and the RCG attended the Socialist Worker's Party's 
badly misnamed event 'Marxism 2000,' in particular the session 'Cuba and 
US imperialism.' For me it was a real example of the complete corruption 
and opportunism of the bulk of the British left, illustrating how they 
are part of the problem rather than the solution and how important our 
work is.

The speaker, Mike Gonzalez of the SWP, railed against the socialist 
Cuban Revolution for not being socialist, or in his words being 'state 
capitalist', as he regurgitated all the old lies about gays and people 
with HIV being persecuted on the island. He came up with new ones as 
well: apparently President Fidel Castro has secret bank accounts 
containing money from cocaine trafficking, and the Revolutionary Armed 
Forces directly run the tourism and prostitution industry. The CIA would 
really be proud of Gonzalez since they have always known the value of 
leftists who are pro-imperialist, and the SWP is certainly more 
viciously anti-Cuban than even the capitalist media.

/Ed Ralph/



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