Re: [Marxism] Re: No, the Posadistas in Cuba were not shot

["Carlos A. Rivera" <cerejota@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Richard Fidler" <rfidler@xxxxxxxxxx>


> Fred Feldman has accurately answered Carlos Rivera’s absurd statement
> that the Cuban Trotskyists "had to be shot as counter-revolutionaries".

Did a quick review of my sources and I made a mistake. I confused Angel 
Fanjul's death sentence with it being actually carried out.

Yes, no PORistas were shot. Still, if it weren't for el Che... well some 
less trots.

The rest is true. The POR was not only quite sizeable, but in had people in 
the leadership of several unions, and had industry-centric newspapers (in 
the style of the LO of France). I have seen copies of their Baker's Union 
newspaper, for example, althought I havent seen anything else.

As to the Guantanamo line, the excuse for their arrest, they explained it as 
being an agitational line, not an immediate political task.

One could argue that they were one of the major union allies of the M-26, in 
large part because the revisionist PSP had such a fucked up union line, and 
had in fact cooperated with the Batista government, on account that he was 
"a son of the proletariat".

sks



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