Stunning intellectual commentry here from Prasad on 'events' in Cuba. Vijay really gets what's going on. You can see why he's so admired by the 'true socialists'.
Great thread 👇 "In Cuba the churches can act legally but not, for example socialist forces of any kind outside the PCC."
"The rhetoric about worms and mercenaries; the logic of infinite resistance and the besieged fortress, that drowned the island. It is not true that Cuba cannot be discussed until the blockade ends. We must reject the blockade and discuss Cuba."
Nothing to say about the actual ̶p̶r̶o̶t̶e̶s̶t̶s̶ events in actual Cuba gets you tons of 'me too bro' attention.
The Morning Star is referring to 'protests', Diaz-Canal is referring to 'events'. For a reason. 😬 #lostintranslation
Apparently those b'tards in The International Media are "trying to make invisible the displays of love and support for the Cuban Revolution." Not me, display away 👇
This is not exactly a ringing endorsement from the left for Diaz-Canal if 24hrs on this is the dismal list the cranks come up with. peoplesdispatch.org/2021/07/12/cub…
"The process of opening up to capital is not accompanied by the freedom of organization of the working class." 🤔 prensaobrera.com/internacionale…
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Not really, Alan.
A message for American politicians from a British one who would rather stick forks up his nose than express an actual opinion on #11JCuba so instead he's addressing you.
It's as traditional as the Durham Miners Gala, bye eck.
More British politicians addressing American ones and do everything possible to not comment on the "situation".
None of the folks who stomp their feet about the first responsibility being holding our government to account seem to have anything to say about the UK and Cuba. It's all about the Muricans. *Insert distracted girlfriend meme*
First thing that came to mind scanning this - yes scanning, this stuff tends to repeat - was Underpants Gnomes.
Why didnt the Cubans who cited the covid response among their reasons for protesting read Ollie Vargas in the GZ?! If only they had then none of this would be happening.
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Yesterday's protests started in a small town near Havana. We don't know the specific spark but they appear bottom up, not organised. Residents there are quoted citing privations such as the blackouts as the cause for going to the streets. translatingcuba.com/cubas-electric…
The Internet was locally cut off but not before social media had spread news and some video of the protest in San Antonio de los Baños. Video then started appearing of protest in other towns and a call went out for a Havana protest.
There seems to be a mass protest going on in a town 25k from Havana that's being described as the biggest since the 1990s 'special period'. Internet connection has been cut so there's little video of what's happening.
It's being described as involving thousands of people, which is unheard of. And reports of a similar protest in a town at the other end of the island and now another town. Via @MGVivero
Via @yoanisanchez This is San Antonio de los Baños, 25k from Havana.
When @PiruloAr was hauled before a Nicaraguan Prosecutor yesterday they made a point of saying that they did not like the reporting of his 👇 outlet, Divergentes. They said Wilfredo was lying. They really, really don't like this 👇 reporting.
Important to note that the attacks on these reporters in english coming from the Ortega supporting Western left underpin +aid the repression in very practical ways. They are worse than Durante in that they bulk up/distribute the fake 'evidence' used to condemn Ortega's opponents.
This is the 'reporting' which underpins Nicaragua's global propaganda support for its repression of journalists and political opponents.
Y'know when folks do events organised by 🇷🇺at the 🇺🇳 that support Russian geopolitical priorities like trashing the White Helmets and still claim to be 'independent'? This is the same👇
Rodriguez is 🇻🇪VP and Arreaza is 🇻🇪 Foreign Sec. Rosales is the regime Ambassador to the OAS.
Ivan Timofeev is from the Valdai Club and provides the 'facts' to support Russia's occupation of Crimea. He's also intimately connected to 'Russiagate'. nytimes.com/2017/11/10/us/…
This Russian is involved because the campaign against sanctions is global and has been going on for months and Russia has a lot invested in it.
Folks who've been observing Peruvian elections for decades say there's zero, zip, nada evidence of fraud. Keiko's specific claims have *already been picked up by the system* as isolated, not systemic, cases. elcomercio.pe/elecciones-202… v @michaelcdeibert
Whoever lost, the integrity of the election would be under attack.