Re: [Marxism] Trotskyists NOT for overthrowing Cuban government

[Bonnie Weinstein <giobon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Comrades are invited to visit www.socialistviewpoint.org and read the latest
issue of Socialist Viewpoint which is devoted to the nature of the Cuban
state, its democracy and its role in the world revolution.

http://www.socialistviewpoint.org/

Here is the table of contents:

May/June 2005 ? Vol 4, No. 5 ?

Table of Contents 

Fund Drive Report 

Cuba and World Socialist Revolution

By Nat Weinstein 

Introduction to Dynamics of the Cuban Revolution

By Joseph Hansen 

Democracy and the Multiparty Political System

By Tom Crumpacker 

Beating around the Bush?The Case of Luis Posada Carriles

By Tom Crumpacker 

Fidel Castro Defines the Theory of the Cuban Revolution

Speech on the 50th Anniversary of the Attack on Moncada Garrison

By Fidel Castro 

Man and Socialism in Cuba

By Ernesto Che Guevara

Josef Stalin 

By Armando Hart 

About my April 5th Interview in La Jornada

By Celia Hart 

At the Havana Book Fair

By Celia Hart 

Is Chavez¹s Venezuela Populist or Socialist?

By Carles Mutaner 

Venezuela the Country of Parallels: the Parallel Revolution

By America Vera-Zavala

Venezuelan Workers Debate Workers Control of Industry
and State Enterprises

By Bill Burgess 

Venezuela Unions Conference on Workers¹ Co-Management

By Kelmer Colmenárez

Stalinist Betrayal and the World Revolution

By Leon Trotsky 

Cuba at the Crossroads

Editorial (The Militant)

The Militant and the Cuban Revolution

By Walter Lippmann 

Why Memorial Days Ain¹t About Remembering

By Mumia Abu-Jamal 

For Mother¹s Day, Bring the Troops Home Now!

By Bonnie Weinstein

The 21st-Century Brain: Explaining, Mending
and Manipulating the Mind

By Richard Lewontin

Zionist Logic 

By Malcolm X 

British Antiwar MP Answers U.S. Senators¹ Charges

By George Galloway 

Letter to the Editor



In solidarity,

Bonnie Weinstein, Socialist Viewpoint


On 7/8/05 6:37 AM, "acpollack2@xxxxxxxx" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Walter, your claim is untrue both politically and numerically:
> 
> -- "Walter  Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Keil holds the very familiar, traditional
> Trotskyist opinion of Cuba, that is, Cuba is
> a bureaucratically-deformed workers state
> ruled by a one-party Stalinist party, and he
> would logically, therefore, be in favor of
> the overthrow of the Cuban government today
> (by "the workers", of course).
> 
> Not true - the "traditional Trotskyist" opinion is the one best
> articulated by Joe Hansen and still held by most Trotskyists
> worldwide, that Castro and his team were and are revolutionaries,
> that the state was deformed for lack of organs of workers' democracy,
> but that no political revolution was needed, that reform was possible.
> Furthermore it has been recognized that Castro and his team has
> tacked left and right over the years due to a variety of factors --
> and anyone following the mainstream Trotskyist press in any country
> these days would see MORE agreement with the current actions and policies of
> Castro right now than in some previous periods when he was
> much more under the gun from the Soviet Union.
> 
> See, for instance:
> http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/swp-us/testofcuba.htm
> http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fit/whypolres.htm
> http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/swp-us/reunif.htm
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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