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A Night For Cuba in London

The Respect society at the School of Oriental and African Studies is hosting a fundraising night for the Cuba Solidarity Campaign’s Hurricane Appeal. Come along for an evening of film, music and politics on Wednesday 22 October 2008 from 6pm. It’s in the Junior Common Room. Well done to the comrades organising it! Cuba has…

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imageThe Respect society at the School of Oriental and African Studies is hosting a fundraising night for the Cuba Solidarity Campaign’s Hurricane Appeal. Come along for an evening of film, music and politics on Wednesday 22 October 2008 from 6pm. It’s in the Junior Common Room.

Well done to the comrades organising it!

Cuba has been devastated last month by Hurricane Ike, described by some as the worst hurricane ever to hit it, which has destroyed much of her crops and infrastructure. This despite the fact that Cuba is the country least responsible for climate change – it is the world’s only sustainably developing country, achieving economic growth within a sustainable carbon footprint, an achievement of economic planning free from the discredited anarchy of the free market.

But with Cuba blockaded from the international market by its powerful neighbour, funding the reconstruction will be particularly difficult. Join us in doing what we can to help, and in a great night, hosted by SOAS RESPECT Society.

With

The film Cuban Story, made by the legendary actor Errol Flynn in the heady days of the 1959 revolution, in which he personally participated.

George Galloway MP

Bob Oram, vice-chair of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign

The SOAS Cuban Big Band

All funds raised go to Cuba through the Cuba Solidarity Campaign’s Hurricane Appeal

7 responses to “A Night For Cuba in London”

  1. faceless Avatar
    faceless

    Sounds like a great night – all the best for a good turnout

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  2. RobM Avatar
    RobM

    Boo! Hiss! Running dogs of Stalinism! Castroite lackeys! Why no speaker from the Strangle Cuba Campaign! What about the workers! Down with this sort of thing! Galloway, bah, humbug- bet he didn’t mention human rights. Too busy living off the proceeds of the Cuban cigar black market. Sugar money in his off-shore accounts… etc.

    Just thought I’d get in there first before Martin sticks his Ohr in…

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  3. steve Avatar
    steve

    yes but workers aren’t allowed to have free trade unions, no right to vote for non stalinist Cuban CP, Increasing gap in wealt between rich and poor, rise in levels of prostitution. I mean I think these are matters for concern so for me I am with the regime against USA imperialism but no illusions that this is some sort of workers paradise.

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  4. Liam Avatar
    Liam

    Well I’m shocked and stunned to find out that Cuba hasn’t become a fully operational exemplary socialist democracy.

    A small island, with a tiny industrial base, no natural resources worth talking about, on a planet that hasn’t seen a successful revolution in decades has all sorts of inequalities and limitations. Who could have predicted that? It seems so counter intuitive to any sort of materialist understanding of the world.

    But as Celia Hart said:

    I won’t change the fact that no Cuban child goes barefoot.

    I won’t change that my child can go to school without my having to pay for his books.

    I won’t change the fact that, insufficient though the amount may be, all Cubans get rice and a little sugar every month, and some chicken now and then.

    I won’t change the milk our children get, whether or not they like it, until they’re seven, at a time when half of the world is starving to death.

    And she was right. In Haiti the poor eat mud. In Jamaica they murder each other. Cuba is an idea of something different.

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  5. Derek Wall Avatar
    Derek Wall

    Good work Liam! I am probably more supportive of Cuba than some on the left, but without seeing it as some kind of utopia solidarity is still vital.

    Great to see RESPECT running this….at Green Party conference the Cuba Sol event was very over subscribed

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  6. arbuckle Avatar
    arbuckle

    Liam
    I think the contributor just raised the idea that socilaists are for trade unions, the right to vote, equal wealth and against womens oppression. You seem to have a problem with this in terms of the tone of your reply. Socialists of course can be for defence of a regime/country agianst the main imperialist powers as in this case but I am afriad you brand of socialism has a nasty habit of colouring regimes red. Lets face it, the regime appears to be heading for the market economy direction. I am for defending welfare gains made anywhere, this Liam doesn’t mean those regimes are socilaist. This is an old debate but its a shame that illusions in stalinism persist in the orthodox trotskyist movement.

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  7. Liam Avatar
    Liam

    Since when have trade unions, voting, women’s rights and all that new fangled stuff had anything to do with what socialists are interested in? That’s news to me!!

    Arbuckle – until this evening I’d assumed that your contributions to this site were part of a really sophisticated trolling operation. I don’t remember the last time I was so wrong.

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