Enrique Roig de San Martin – The motherland and the workers (1889)
Roig de San Martin, editor of the weekly anarchist paper El Productor, responding to an article in the “liberal” paper El Pais, which called on workers to support the cause of Cuban independence.
The Motherland and the Workers
It is not because we are “faint of heart”, not because we are “hot-headed” nor “for reasons of a personal nature, even though we be the sons of this land”, that we shy away from “defending [Cuba's] dignity and grandeur”.
El Pais should know that in acting as we do we are prompted solely by the dictates of honest conscience.
International Statement of Solidarity With Cuban Anti-Authoritarians: You Are Not Alone
Statement in support of Cuban Anti-Authoritarian/Horizontalist organizers, workers, activists, artists, musicians y mas in Cuba. Scroll down to see current list of endorsements and the original statement in Spanish.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Reportback from 2011 Critical Observatory: Cuban Social Forum
A report from the 5th Observatorio Critico forum in Havana. This year the event was promoted as a Cuban Social Forum bringing together diverse groups and individuals from across Cuba to meet, discuss and work together on the formation of a supportive activist network of made up of self-managed/non-state aligned autonomous organizations and projects in Cuba.
Translated from Spanish @ Foro Social Cubano 2011 en marcha
March 26, 2011, kicked off the first day of the 5th Cuban Social Forum, in the working class Havana neighborhood of Cocosolo. The forum was convened by the Critical Observatory Activist Network.
The Cuban revolution: A critical perspective - Sam Dolgoff
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 4 2011 15:12
Sam Dolgoff's book offering a critical account of the Cuban Revolution of 1959 from anarchist perspective.
From the Anarchy Archives, with a large number of corrections by libcom.org.
Unfortunately chapters 11 and 12 have the text garbled and so are omitted here in text format, as the appendices. Everything, however is in the PDF document below.
Cuba: dockers successfully block the exportation of scarce rice reserves
Submitted by Caiman del Barrio on Jun 23 2010 22:53
Dockworkers at the port of Havana had struck and blockaded the port, refusing to load a shipment of rice bound for Haiti, pointing to a chronic national shortage.
Rice has been unavailable in the "island socialist paradise" for a month now. It can't even be found in the elitist convertible stores (which accept pesos convertibles from the small elite and tourists, while workers' wages and rations are paid in the moneda nacional). The shortage has been a cause of great public outcry, as this episode demonstrates.
Libertarian contingent on Mayday demonstration in Havana, Cuba
Submitted by Caiman del Barrio on May 4 2010 18:24
Members of the Red Protagónica Observatorio Crítico in Havana, Cuba joined the main Mayday march, with banners promoting grassroots organisation and an end to bureaucracy, claiming that real socialism is democracy, as well as distributing a letter. A week before the march, the collective had organised a public event, promoting the libertarian origins of Mayday. After the demonstration, some of the contingent convoked an impromptu rumba in a city centre square, as marchers stopped to dance to their African drum rhythms.
Cuba: interview with the Movimiento Libertario Cubano
During mid-June 2008 the Iberian counter-information collective A Las Barricadas posed several questions to the MLC… The complete text of this interview follows.
We’re interviewing the Cuban Libertarian Movement (Movimiento Libertario Cubano – MLC), an organization made up of anarchists in exile in different parts of the world. In these days of apparent change, of transition, as the European and North-American media would have it, it’s of interest to know first hand about what’s happening inside the island.
Cuba: interview with Octavio Alberola
Interview with the Spanish libertarian militant and veteran of the anti-Franco struggle Octavio Alberola on the anarchist angle on Cuba, originally published in the Venezuelan monthly El Libertario in 2004.
Among other things Octavio Alberola is presently the driving force behind the GALSIC (Support Group for Libertarians and Independent Trade Unionists in Cuba), a support and information network which, in concert with the Cuban Libertarian Movement in Exile (MLCE), denounces the excesses of Fidel Castro's multi-faceted dictatorship from an anarchist viewpoint.
Our men and women in Havana (are requesting good, published material)
Submitted by Caiman del Barrio on Mar 22 2010 19:44
It may seem quite modest to us, but some historical events have taken place in the "socialist paradise" of Cuba, demonstrating positive moves towards the ressucitation of independent, base-level social and workers' movements. Having hosted a long weekend of discussions and workshops, companeros in Havana are expected to open a library in the next couple of days - and they need your help!
The three-day event was named Observatorio Crítico de Cuba, and was hosted by the Cátedra Haydeé Santamaría.
Cuba: libertarians warn of impending "wave of repression"
Submitted by Caiman del Barrio on Dec 16 2009 05:12
Libertarians and Independent activists in the cultural sphere in Cuba are bracing themselves for state repression following an attack on an independent arts festival in Havana.
News on rebellious activities on the island is scarce and hard to come by due to Cuban laws restricting the flow of information, forcing a sort of coded self-censorship in order to ensure that correspondences are not blocked. Below, however, is the translation of the following email received from inside the island from contacts of Venezuelan anarchist newspaper El Libertario:
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