Dear Sisters/Brothers;
We have seen and felt with our flesh and blood the negative impacts of the U.S. genocidal blockade of Cuba; and the ongoing genocide in Gaza by the Zionist apartheid regime of Israel fully backed by the U.S. government and its allies! Cuba, by cultivating a humane, solidarity culture in all its manifestations, has become a strategic field of struggle for overcoming the material shortages and the difficult conditions created by the inhumane imperialist encirclement of the Cuban Revolution! And although Cuba is expecting even more tightening of the U.S. blockade and more counter-revolutionary attacks and media wars in the coming year; the revolution is mobilizing more than ever, as a dignified nation never gives in!
And in Palestine the culture of Life has become an example for humanity to follow! For instance, the heroic healthcare workers, of any hospital still standing, have not left their posts, so that they can try to save the lives of the injured/bombed Palestinians with the least of resources and at times non-existent medical supplies while facing the modern Fascists’ incessant attacks and bombardments!
The Cuban Revolution is standing tall-in the midst of one of the most difficult economic situations- by staying true to its internationalist principles, by providing scholarships for Palestinian students to study medicine to save lives! And if I dare to call a campaign “The Cuba-for-Palestine Campaign of Contributions”, I am fully justified in doing so since anything we offer Cuba will definitely help 1000's upon 1000's of youth from around the world to become educated in order to save lives! With Cuba impatient to be able to receive the injured/maimed Gazans for treatment; it is our duty to support Cuba directly. (Please see this post for details)
The resilience of the Cuban Revolution, its leadership and its people today is best manifested by the recent image of the combative nation marching past the U.S. Embassy in Havana demanding the end of the genocidal blockade and the removal of Cuba from the arbitrary list composed by the U.S. State Department of countries it claims to be a "state sponsor of terrorism". We recall that when on Dec. 18, 1956 Raul Castro regrouped with Fidel Castro in Cinco Palmas and they only had 7 armaments, Fidel said, " We Will Win", fully confident of their historic mission to free Cuba from the yoke of U.S. imperialism with the support of the people
And the Palestinian fighters, under siege in Gaza and the constant bombardments by Israeli military (read modern Fascist forces supported by the imperial west and their lackeys), fighters steadfast in their resistance and saying "we will be martyrs or victorious" remind us of the international revolutionary legend Ernest Che Guevara who always volunteered to be in the first line of struggle against imperialist domination from wherever the call came!
The aforementioned historical facts disprove the barrage of racist verbiage from all corners of the "left" spectrum, amplified by imperialism’s propaganda machinery, condemning the forces resisting imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza and now celebrating with victory dances the coming into power in Syria of past Al-Qaeda operatives, while the Zionists/the U.S. and their friends are bombing and carving the hell out of the Syrian territory and resources; as "proxies", "reactionary Islamists"! Those using such verbiage have forgotten that the very first and foremost duty of any principled anti-imperialist at this time is to demand; "From the River to the Sea Palestine Will be Free" and "Hands off the Middle East"!
That is why we see ourselves committed to defending the Cuban Revolution's achievements; and the Palestinian people's struggle to rid humanity of the scourge of Zionist apartheid by informing and educating the broader public that genocidal acts meted out against the honorable and heroic Cubans and Palestinians won't be able to bring them to their knees. Their struggles are feats that teach us all that "homeland is humanity" "patria es humanidad".
Take care and have a nice day. We cannot be amongst the indifferent.
Brotherly;
Morteza Gorgzadeh for
Toronto Forum on Cuba
[email protected]
We have seen and felt with our flesh and blood the negative impacts of the U.S. genocidal blockade of Cuba; and the ongoing genocide in Gaza by the Zionist apartheid regime of Israel fully backed by the U.S. government and its allies! Cuba, by cultivating a humane, solidarity culture in all its manifestations, has become a strategic field of struggle for overcoming the material shortages and the difficult conditions created by the inhumane imperialist encirclement of the Cuban Revolution! And although Cuba is expecting even more tightening of the U.S. blockade and more counter-revolutionary attacks and media wars in the coming year; the revolution is mobilizing more than ever, as a dignified nation never gives in!
And in Palestine the culture of Life has become an example for humanity to follow! For instance, the heroic healthcare workers, of any hospital still standing, have not left their posts, so that they can try to save the lives of the injured/bombed Palestinians with the least of resources and at times non-existent medical supplies while facing the modern Fascists’ incessant attacks and bombardments!
The Cuban Revolution is standing tall-in the midst of one of the most difficult economic situations- by staying true to its internationalist principles, by providing scholarships for Palestinian students to study medicine to save lives! And if I dare to call a campaign “The Cuba-for-Palestine Campaign of Contributions”, I am fully justified in doing so since anything we offer Cuba will definitely help 1000's upon 1000's of youth from around the world to become educated in order to save lives! With Cuba impatient to be able to receive the injured/maimed Gazans for treatment; it is our duty to support Cuba directly. (Please see this post for details)
The resilience of the Cuban Revolution, its leadership and its people today is best manifested by the recent image of the combative nation marching past the U.S. Embassy in Havana demanding the end of the genocidal blockade and the removal of Cuba from the arbitrary list composed by the U.S. State Department of countries it claims to be a "state sponsor of terrorism". We recall that when on Dec. 18, 1956 Raul Castro regrouped with Fidel Castro in Cinco Palmas and they only had 7 armaments, Fidel said, " We Will Win", fully confident of their historic mission to free Cuba from the yoke of U.S. imperialism with the support of the people
And the Palestinian fighters, under siege in Gaza and the constant bombardments by Israeli military (read modern Fascist forces supported by the imperial west and their lackeys), fighters steadfast in their resistance and saying "we will be martyrs or victorious" remind us of the international revolutionary legend Ernest Che Guevara who always volunteered to be in the first line of struggle against imperialist domination from wherever the call came!
The aforementioned historical facts disprove the barrage of racist verbiage from all corners of the "left" spectrum, amplified by imperialism’s propaganda machinery, condemning the forces resisting imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza and now celebrating with victory dances the coming into power in Syria of past Al-Qaeda operatives, while the Zionists/the U.S. and their friends are bombing and carving the hell out of the Syrian territory and resources; as "proxies", "reactionary Islamists"! Those using such verbiage have forgotten that the very first and foremost duty of any principled anti-imperialist at this time is to demand; "From the River to the Sea Palestine Will be Free" and "Hands off the Middle East"!
That is why we see ourselves committed to defending the Cuban Revolution's achievements; and the Palestinian people's struggle to rid humanity of the scourge of Zionist apartheid by informing and educating the broader public that genocidal acts meted out against the honorable and heroic Cubans and Palestinians won't be able to bring them to their knees. Their struggles are feats that teach us all that "homeland is humanity" "patria es humanidad".
Take care and have a nice day. We cannot be amongst the indifferent.
Brotherly;
Morteza Gorgzadeh for
Toronto Forum on Cuba
[email protected]
