[van-discuss] Re: [van-announce] Help a youth go to Cuba

[Geordie Birch]

said Marcel Hatch (on 2002-11-06),

> It's a problem that will only
> end by the ending of the blockade and in the long term the ending of
> capitalism. In the case of Cuba, the biggest,  baddest capitalists
> still effect life on the island.

I agree.

> In the future I will say no one in Cuba lives on the streets or goes
> without shelter.

I have trouble believing that absolutely no one lives on the street in
Cuba.  Very few?  Sure.  None?  Seems dubious (especially when a cursory
google search returns anecdotal evidence.)

> My point in general Gordie is that a real workers' government can
> move quickly and decisively within its means to prevent conditions of
> barbarism at the bottom which is a common feature of most all
> capitalist countries. This is why I support Cuba. Like those 35,000
> homes that were wreck by hurricanes this fall that are being rebuilt
> for free, and workers who lost jobs as a result of the hurricanes
> that are being paid 100% of their salary until factories and farms
> are fixed.
>
> This is a superior approach to anything ever proposed by conventional
> party in Canada -- but certainly not beyond the imagination of
> working and poor people here.

I agree.

Geordie.