Solidarity and Solidarity Economics

A New concise article describing a practical solidaristic socialism will be presented soon.

Below are some links to good websites and articles relevant to Latin America and the Bolivarian Movement


V. A. CUBA:
No economic solution without political alternatives

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/febrero/jue12/8econ-i.html
BY MARIA JULIA MAYORAL, ARSENIO RODRÍGUEZ AND JOSÉ A. DE LA OSA—Granma daily staff writers— Failure of the Washington Consensus denounced at international forum. SOLUTIONS for Third World countries will not come from the economic side, nor from cosmetic changes within the neoliberal model; without political transformations, economic development will be impossible, as will an equitable distribution of wealth, justice, democracy and national sovereignty.
[ed. note: For a different view see: http://is1.crawler.com/Crawl.main.aff001/dog/results?otmpl=dog/webresults.htm&qcat=web&qkw=social%20economy&qk=20&method=&top=1&start=&ver=3209

B. CUBA:January, 9 2004
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1086

Noriega Lies about Cuban involvement in Bolivia

[This is the same Noriega who helped mastermind the kidnapping of Aristide from Haiti]

Original source / relevant link : http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/enero/vier9/3mentira-i.html
The lies, fears and stupidity of the empire, Havana.
“’It is clear that Fidel Castro’s actions have caught the attention of Latin America leaders,’ Roger Noriega U.S. assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, affirmed, describing them as “increasingly provocative” to the inter-American community. Noriega said that Castro is ‘stirring up the waters’... ‘fomenting discord and discontent in a conscious and destructive manner’ and making democratically elected governments vulnerable.”

This Mr. Noriega, a cynical and mediocre character, was one of the principal drafters and the central promoter of the Helms-Burton Act against Cuba. He is a close friend of the Cuban-American terrorist mafia in Miami. He assumed the post of assistant secretary when the Senate opposed the appointment of bandit Otto Reich, whose history of terrorism in the dirty war in Nicaragua is well known.

It can be demonstrated that Noriega’s statements are, as usual, shameless lies.

For the Cuban people, President Chávez embodies the Bolivarian ideas and spirit of the independence, unity and patriotism of the peoples of Latin America, whose ethnic origin, culture, religion and language have much more in common than any other group of countries in the world. They have the right and the duty to unite not only for economic reasons but also for their own survival. Cuba supports that right with all its might.

We are perfectly well aware of the ideas of Mr. Noriega and others of his sort consistent with murdering Cuban doctors in Venezuela with the complicity of Colombian paramilitaries in order to teach them a lesson and force them to withdraw their cooperation in the marvelous health plans being instigated by the Bolivarian government within the Barrio Adentro program, through which more than 12.5 million poor Venezuelans are receiving medical attention.

We have affirmed that for every doctor, teaching or sports collaborator who falls, many more are prepared to take their place. Full responsibility will fall on the United States.

Those who believe that the Cuban people can be intimated any time are defeated before they start!

C. CUBA:
U.S. government molds ‘mobile, agile’ military; BY PATRICK O’NEILL, (The Militant)

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2003/julio/mier2/themilitant.html

U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has announced that a former head of Special Operations forces will serve as the new chief of the U.S. army. The appointment of retired Gen. Peter Shoomaker follows the promotion of the special forces to a key role in the military conquests of Afghanistan and Iraq. Rumsfeld has been among the most outspoken champions of the enhanced role of the Green Berets, Delta Force, and Navy Seals in the U.S. military.

A revolution is under way in the organization of the U.S. military. The U.S. rulers’ push for more mobile, less ponderous armed forces ready to move rapidly to areas of battle as U.S. imperialism needs. The number of U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany will fall from almost 70,000 to as few as 15,000. Most will head east to Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania. That will bring them closer to likely theaters of imperialist intervention in the Middle East, Africa, and Russia… The total U.S. forces in Europe were reduced from 300,000 to around 100,000 in the decade following the end of the Cold War. Washington is moving troops south from the so-called demilitarized zone dividing the Korean peninsula, which takes them out of range of north Korean artillery in case of a military conflict with Pyongyang. The Pentagon is also probing to establish new bases in Australia, Singapore, and the Philippines, in addition to Japan and south Korea, where it has tens of thousands of troops. Until recently, some 80 percent of the 1.4 million U.S. troops were stationed in the United States, South Korea, and Germany.

In the Middle East, the U.S. military is pulling most of its 5,000-strong force out of Saudi Arabia, while reinforcing its presence in Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and now Iraq. Further east, thousands of troops are in Afghanistan and some 1,500 have been stationed in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic. Meanwhile, under Washington’s Plan Colombia, U.S. forces have been deployed in a number of Andean countries in Latin America under the guise of combating the drug trade and terrorism.

It’s an area of the world where the volcano of the class struggle is smoldering.

- posted by Resistance @ 8:40 PM