[van-discuss] Re: [news] Cuban Revolutionary Imprisoned by Cuban State

Mon May 12 23:57:54 PDT 2003

i don't know very much about cuba so i'd be interested in what others
have to say about the anti-fascist statements...

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 22:53, resist admin wrote:
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> From: Calvin Woida <calvinwoida at hotmail.com>
> To: apc-discuss at lists.resist.ca, copb-van-l at lists.resist.ca
> Subject: [copb-van-l] Cuban Revolutionary Imprisoned by Cuban State
> Date: 12 May 2003 22:07:40 -0700
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> Cuba: Miguel Galvan Gutierrez sentenced to 26 years. Solidarity with the
> Cuban people, not with the fascist State
> >From Worker <a-infos-en at ainfos.ca>
> Date Sun, 11 May 2003 16:36:34 +0200 (CEST)
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> >From castellan in redlibertaria.org
> He is an independent syndicalist, member of the National Centre
> for Union Capacity coordination committee, journalist in the
> independent news-agency HabanaPress and head of the Colegio de
> Ingenieros y Arquitectos de Cuba (CIAC). He was transferred to
> the Agüica prison in Matanzas (98 km from La Habana) Any
> solidarity correspondence can be forwarded to his family at the
> following address: Calle 52 No 9914 e/ 99 y 103, Güines, La
> Habana (send in a plain envelope, we cannot be sure that the
> correspondence is delivered, and we were warned that some had
> been intercepted by the political police, the Seguridad del
> Estado).
> 
> Colectivo de Solidaridad con Cuba
> 
> URGENT CALL TO SOLIDARITY: TO THE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS
> ASSOCIATION, THE IWW AND ALL THE OTHER FREE SYNDICALIST
> CONFEDERATIONS
> 
> La Habana, 5th May - The Agüica authorities imprisoned the
> independent syndicalist, Miguel Galván Gutiérrez, in an
> isolation cell. According to the prison authorities, he will
> remain in punishment regime for two years. Galván Gutiérrez, who
> is a member of the "Coordinating Committee of the National
> Centre of Union and Labour Assistance (CNCSL)", had his last
> family visit for one hour on 28th April. The visits are
> appointed every three months. His brothers and sisters reported
> that he had lost weight and had continuous diarrhea. The prision
> officials said it was not allowed to deliever the medicine for
> his digestive problems that his family was carrying and that
> they, the prison personnel, were responsible for his health.
> 
> The prison authorities said that convicts had only the right to
> 40 pounds of food, items for personal hygiene and a bible. In
> the cell next to Miguel Galván's, there are 80 prisoners
> condemned to the death penalty. The Agüica prison is located 9½
> kilometres from the town of Colón in the Matanzas province, 98
> km from Havana, where his family lives. Gutiérrez, who is 38
> years old, has to serve a 25 prison sentence, without the right
> to any reduction, and was accused of being a "mercenary in the
> service of a foreign power", just because he claimed for union
> freedoms. The Supreme Court has given no answer yet to the
> counterclaim placed by the defendantss (the same as with the
> other prisoners of conscience from the most recent repressive
> wave of the fascist dictatorship) Colectivo de Solidaridad con
> Cuba
> 
> NEWS FROM CUBA: ALERT TO THE ANTI-FASCIST INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT
> 
> The World Union Federation (Federación Sindical Mundial) and
> Castro's fascist dictatorship, have taken the cynical position
> of appealing for the constitution of an Anti-fascist
> International Front. How can the last fascist dictatorship in
> Latin America dare talk about anti-fascism. How dare the WUF/FSM
> talk about anti-fascist unionism from Havana, a stronghold of
> the last vertical union that was an instrumental of the dictator
> Francisco Franco. Today, in face of the neo-nazi and forced
> western rule imposed by the butcher Bush Jr., a union of
> anti-authoritarian and libertarian forces in an international
> anti-fascist coordination is becoming urgent, but we cannot fall
> into the cynical and simplistic attitude of calling it from the
> headquarters of Franco-Castrism, where social fighters, union
> activists, poets and journalists are rotting in prison as
> prisoners of conscience. Cuban anarchists have always stood on
> the anti-fascist fight. Many comrades fought alongside the CNT
> and the FAI against Franco's fascism. We reaffirm today our
> anti-fascist stance in the belief that a union of
> anti-authoritarian revolutionary forces is necessary against US
> nazism, but we do also condemn Franco-Castrism which today
> oppresses our comrades from the island.
> 
> ¡Health and SR!
> Movimiento Libertario Cubano
> 
> ******************
> 
> ¡SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN PEOPLE, NOT WITH CASTRO!
> 
> Police harrass a dissident in Batabanó
> 
> HAVANA, 5th May
> 
> With the pretext that some meat was being hidden, the police
> made a visit to the Aurora Pita Fernández home in No.7702 68
> Street, between 77 and 79 in the municipality of Batabanó,
> Havana province. According to a neighbour, Pita Fernández and
> her husband Rafael Jiménez, complained about the way the
> officials from the Departamento Técnico de Investigaciones (DTI)
> and the policemen acted during the visit, at 8:30 pm. "Aurora,
> her husband and both sons were pushed around and forced to keep
> silent while the registration was carried out". At the end of
> the police search the couple were taken to the municipal police
> unit, where they asked for an explanation of the illegal
> invasion of their home, without any proof of crime or witnesses
> from the CDR.
> 
> The police and DTI members explained then that what they were
> after was someone that had escaped justice and they thought he
> was hiding in their home. Pita Jiménez has denied having any
> connection to this fugitive, who was sentenced in 1990 to three
> years prison in his own residence for supposedly "enemy
> propaganda" and, in 2000, to nine months for disobeying
> authority.
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