Having supplied more medical aid to the third world than the entire WHO, Cuba has now taught over 3 million poor non Cubans how to read and write.


granma.cu - Ibero-American literacy congress highlights Cuba’s work

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Viva Fidel

If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Shhhhhhhhhh


Your not allowed talk about the work Cuba does to alleviate the problems the third world ae experiancing as a result of first world capitalism

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"We will disobey your laws as long as they are unjust and they make a world shaped only for your profit"-G8 protestor Genoa 2001





NO PASERÁN!!

"We learned a long time ago that we should never subject ourselves to the schedules of the powerful. We had to follow our own calendar and impose it on those above.” - Subcommandante Marcos

I know im surprised no one has came in with b-b-b-but they are dictatorship, they don't have freedom - like the freedom to go hungry, remain uneducated, ignorant and ill.

The solidarity Cuba has shown with the worlds poor while expecting nothing in return is simply unrivalled.

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Viva Fidel

If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

My God your showing common sense..... Shoot this commie b*astard before he infects us all

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"We will disobey your laws as long as they are unjust and they make a world shaped only for your profit"-G8 protestor Genoa 2001





NO PASERÁN!!

"We learned a long time ago that we should never subject ourselves to the schedules of the powerful. We had to follow our own calendar and impose it on those above.” - Subcommandante Marcos

Raul Castro is loosening things up in Cuba, that's why the wingnuts will leave this alone. Cuba is still a poor nation but it's improving its position and while we keep hearing about the lack of consumer goods (*sob*) free education, free medical care and a lot of other social programmes have benefited the Cuban people in very real terms.

I'm on it.

Congratulations Cuba, congratulations socialism. This is the thing about socialism, it goes about it's business without fuss, without making a big song a dance about it like capitalism does when some philanthropy emerges. I'd bet most Americans and Brits don't know who helped fight against South Africa and who opposed apartheid whilst Britain and America were refusing to trade with Cuba but trading with racist South Africa. And then the arguments come that it's against freedom, but what is freedom if it can not be excersized? Plutarch wrote about Solon:

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Trust me, I'm a socialist!

There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg

Way to go. Now lets talk human rights for a change.

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"...Follow the crystal star to the pyre of the flame; there exists the dwelling of the spreading fire. The heart of this life rests upon the fate of that place, and what begins there sends a contagion to the rest of the universe.
As long as the fire burns we shall never be free..." (The Shadows of Yavara, Final Reclamation)

Lets do. Like the most important of rights - the right to life, noit to die young from cureable disease because of wealth, like the right to a good education.

You wanna talk about human rights ? Lets talk. What about the rights of Iraqi's and Afghans not to be killed by foreign powers. Lets talk about the right not to be iomprisoned without trial - to be locked up in guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, lets talk about the British locking people up for 42 days without charge, lets talk about torture and extraordinary rendition.

You see when it comes to the most vital and cherished of human rights Cuba has the worlds "free" countries beat hands down.

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Viva Fidel

If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

I still do not see anyone scrambling to move to Cuba. It is even more apparent when folks are lashing together crappy little rafts and trying to escape. But yeah, maybe your right, GO SOCIALISM!

Cuba is a poor country, of course some people will look to leave, that's a given. But Cuba was a poor country long before socialism, and it it has only remained poor die to external forces - like a $100 billion costing embargo and European sanctions. But wealth is not a measure of a nation, the measure of a nation is what they do with their wealth and what Cuba does with its is infinitely better than most. They don't start wars and spend lots on weapons, they build schools, give health care, fight racism, build housing, look after the elderly and infirmed. They are streets ahead of their regional rivals and all countries of similar resources. Their charity knows no limits - they give aid not based on ideology but based on need - if the worlds superpowers behaved like cuba there would be no war, no starvation, no ignorance, no poverty, no racism, no needless deaths, so yes indeed, go socialism.

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Viva Fidel

If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?