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AN otherwise Rich Paiser of tober) about CD campaigning on the it wrong. I think, issue.
He quotes the CND constituwonal aims correcty cissolving all military blocs) but goes on to talk UnIV CLOU campaigns around its constitutional aims by linking mand interesting and heffield 15 Octhe de withdrawal STEVEN Archer's letter Chile, Cuba and the masses, 15 October, revolution wasn't revolution'.
kind revolution was it then that smashed the BECC forces and police establishing the rebel army and a new DOC WI TEDIT revolutionary lighters; set militias (which defeated the US organised Bay Pigs invasion in 1961); implemented agrarian reform, dividing land and co-operatives; started centralised plann ing of industry and contro of forcign trade as well as expropriation of US inTC1CSLS But then he follows that statement by sayung that mass mobilisations of the working clas class didn't throw organs workers power. Perhaps this it wasn't a socialst revolution?
But what are the facts? In September one million Cubans rallied to celebrate the 20th an niversary of the Commitees to Detend the Revol On CDR Over million (more than 80 per cent of the population between and 65) .participated in these bodies.
They organise block br block their and vigilant activities. They elect for People's Power (PP), set up in the carly 70s to increase decision making and control management and planning stated that the Cuban socialist participation in bodies is extremely high. At one meeting attended of CDR and PF this between to 95 per cent of people at tended. the establishment of PP in the the trade which now encompass WOTACTS were revitalised.
There IS also the Federation Cuban Womer (FMC) which organises in a similar was CDKS leading the idcological struggle against machismo. The youth organise through the CDRs.
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and the young com. munists, The latest of such organisation ol of Territorial Troop Militias (MTT).
In his l May 1980 speech Castro said: We will not rest until every has a rifle grenade or mine and has OCCI LINCE the necessary training for carrying out his sacred duty of defending his homeland to the death.
This was the Cuban leadership's ESCUESS Carter's anti-Cuban manocuvres in the Carib bean last ycar. From the beginning the Cuban leadershin bas relied on mass mobilisations and participation of workers to defend the revolution.
This, Logether with the massive strides forward In hea, makes Cuba one o and educa Lion, makes examples workers states we have to day To say that the Cuban leadership isn't consistentay revolutionary marxist is alongside the and Salvadoran movements as petty bourgeois is to defy The generations or revoluLARC and Women's Fightback thought up the idea of flowers for Kitson "for his services to sexism' Hardly an organised given that a lot women opposed it on the would "trivialise the struggle' managed make an impact at this year's Labour party conbonary and poaants coming ou Grenada and El Salvador is hardly going to be interested in building a mass Lennist party o the Fourth International if our programme as interprcice by steven Archer leads us to characterise the -cuban revolution revolutionary leaders in such a sectarian way. DENNY FITZPATRICK London ference, despite their lack of organisation. What we need to be looking what we could have done il we had been rather than implying we'd already succeeded.
JOAN TWELVES CLP delegate to LP Conference: member of LARC Executive Committee
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