[Marxism] [CubaNews] ACN: Failed Counterrevolutionary Provocation in Havana

[Shane Mage]

On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Walter Lippmann wrote:

> (It's unusual for the Cuban media to respond at such length and such
> detail as this...

> Failed Counterrevolutionary Provocation in Havana
>
> Havana, April 22 (acn) A reduced group of mercenary elements tried to
> stage a blatant and shameless provocation Monday morning in the
> surroundings of Havana's Revolution Square, reads an article
> published by Granma newspaper today.
>
> The group intended to demand the release of counterrevolutionaries
> punished with prison terms for their activities against the Cuban
> people and for their mercenary and annexation-oriented positions.


A peaceful protest demonstration is here called "a blatant and  
shameless provocation."  That, of course, is standard Stalinist  
terminology and practise, as seems to be still the norm for Cuba's one- 
party press.  What is new here, and terribly revealing, is that the so- 
called "counterrevolutionaries punished with prison terms"
who supposedly, as Walter never tires of asserting, were charged with  
taking money from a foreign government  for political purposes (which,  
if unregistered, would also be a "crime" in the oh-so-democratic USA),  
are actually imprisoned for "activities against the Cuban people and  
for their mercenary and annexation-oriented positions."  Those  
activities, however financed, were never charged as being other than  
entirely peaceful; and "positions," however pejoratively one may  
characterize them, are entirely exercises in political speech.  Do the  
Cuban rulers even begin to realize what a godsend this sort of  
repression is for Bush, the Miami gusanos, and all the other  
reactionaries who want to perpetuate the US economic warfare against  
the Cuban people? It seems not. Cuban Stalinists can be as stupid as  
all the rest of their breed.


Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to  
be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos