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Cuba responds with socialism and ideas against imperial domination – Prensa Latina

The president spoke extensively with the members of the Economic Affairs Commission of the National Peoples Power Assembly (Parliament) about the complex situation in the country, subjected to pressure from the United States in various fields, with the purpose of making the Revolution succumb.

They fear socialist construction in a Cuba without an economic blockade, said Diaz-Canel, who pointed out that we have not been able to do what we wanted, but rather what was possible in the midst of so many aggressions and at a very high cost in terms of the sacrifice of the population.

The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba pointed out that the imperialist logic aspires to suffocate Cuba economically to cause social unrest, a policy that he described as dishonest, criminal and genocidal, since no nation has the right to prevent the development of another.

It is hypocritical to affirm that the blockade is to help the Cuban people, when all its actions directly affect them, he remarked.

Diaz-Canel pointed out that the strategy of imperial domination has three fundamental elements: the first is the platform of cultural colonization, which uses social networks and the entertainment industry to impose its values and that the peoples deny their roots, culture and identity.

The second is in the economic field, which in the case of Cuba is committed to coercive measures and the intensification of the blockade policy, and the third is subversion, to which millions of dollars are dedicated each year to try to destroy the social political system that Cubans chose.

They are frustrated for not having achieved what they set out to do on July 11 last year, the president said. They failed and have failed in all the soft-coup actions implemented.

Diaz-Canel emphasized that the answer to this strategy is socialist construction. We cannot give up social justice, he added, the essence of our system is the greatest possible social justice, with the greatest possible democracy and social participation.

The Cuban head of State commented that the country is committed to a cultural decolonization program, whose objective is to ensure that current generations know their history and culture, to convert them into convictions that contribute to the defense of our ideas.

The president added that in the face of subversion, we put revolutionary articulation before, with greater participation in social networks, more social debate, and the increasingly broad participation of representatives of social sectors in the analysis of public policies and laws in process.

Likewise, he noted that new measures and alternatives for economic problems continue to be studied; in the midst of shortages we have not stopped, we continue working, but always within socialism, he explained.

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Booklaunch: Selected writings on socialism and revolutions with author John Molyneux – Socialist Worker

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Letter: In response to "Democrats and Socialism | Letters to the Editor | tucson.com – Arizona Daily Star

Socialism and Communism are not the same thing.They are diametrically opposed.North Korea,China and Cuba are Communist countries.Sweden, Switzerland,Norway and Portugal practice Socialism.Socialism is more democratic than what we have here in U.S.A which is a Republic. In Norway and Sweden and Switzerland they do not use voter suppression to win an election.They do not have courts that take away a person's rights or try to overturn a fair and fair eletion.

It was Republicans that tried to overturn an election by rioting at our nation's capitol and by trying to use electors. my responce to this person is to take a basic course in Gov't 101

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Islam in China must be ‘Chinese in orientation,’ adhere to socialism, Xi Jinping says in Xinjiang visit – Yahoo News

The Chinese government is pushing efforts to ensure that religious groups in China adhere to the socialist principles of the ruling Communist Party.

President Xi Jinping reportedly gave the directive to officials during his recent four-day visit to Chinas Xinjiang region, which concluded on Saturday.

According to state-run Xinhua News Agency, Xi urged local officials to make "enhanced efforts" to "uphold the principle that Islam in China must be Chinese in orientation, and to adapt religions to a socialist society."

Xi highlighted the importance of religious followers staying closely united with the Communist Party and the government.

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China, a country with ethnic unity, is invincible and will have a bright future, and our Second Centenary Goal is bound to be achieved and so is the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, Xi was quoted as saying.

He also stressed strengthening different ethnic groups identification with Chinese culture, the nation and the Communist Party through education and guidance.

"We have formulated ethnic theories and policies characterized by ethnic equality and unity, regional ethnic autonomy, and shared development and prosperity, so that all ethnic groups have enjoyed equality, unity and progress in real sense under the socialist system," the Chinese president was quoted as saying.

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Xi dubbed Xinjiang a core area and a hub in Chinas development program, which consists of building ports, railways and power stations meant to connect the country to Central Asia and Eastern Europe nations.

Xis Xinjiang visit came amid heavy criticism from the U.S. and several European countries that oppose Chinas oppression of the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the region.

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China has maintained that the rights of its citizens, including those of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, are protected.

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However, in the last several years, Chinese security forces have been accused of aggressively quelling protests by Uyghur Muslims over settlements from Han Chinese originating outside the province.

In May, leaked confidential documents purportedly showed new information about the detainment of the Uyghurs, which Chinese officials have dubbed a fabrication. However, authorities maintained that the camps are about countering violent terrorism, radicalization and separatism, not about human rights or religion.

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Summer strikewave: For coordinated action against the bosses! – Socialist Appeal

Trade union leaders are talking about a summer of discontent, with workers on the railways, at Royal Mail, and in the public sector moving into action. These struggles must be brought together into a mass movement against the bosses and Tories.

Alongside rising temperatures in recent weeks has been a rising tide of class struggle, with strikes spreading like wildfire.

The RMT rail strikes have breathed confidence through the entire labour movement, inspiring other workers to move into action.

As a result, union after union are now declaring their intention to ballot members and take industrial action.

Already, around 115,000 Royal Mail workers organised in the CWU have voted to strike, joining members in the telecoms industry.

Railway workers in the ASLEF and TSSA are also set to strike, on top of further RMT strike days announced for 27 July, 18 August, and 20 August.

And even formerly-privileged layers such as criminal barristers are walking out, shutting down the courts in protest against the crisis in the justice system.

PCS and NEU are already moving to ballot members over strike action. And they are likely to be joined by unions organising healthcare workers. This includes the BMA, representing doctors, who have asserted that strikes are almost certain.

With workers across the board now moving into battle, all facing the same attacks on wages, jobs, and conditions, the situation is screaming out for coordinated action.

The trade union leaders including the TUC, the umbrella organisation for the union movement must therefore begin working together to actively link these struggles, in order to present a united front against the bosses and the Tories.

This should include the call for a one-day public sector strike over the question of pay, in order to unite the movement and galvanise the entire working class.

Alongside this, union-led demonstrations should be organised in every town and city, launching a mass campaign to force a general election and boot out this rotten Tory government.

This should include demands for a sliding scale of wages, linking pay to prices; for the expropriation of the billionaires, to fund a reversal of all the cuts; and for the nationalisation of the banks and major monopolies, under workers control, in order to plan the economy along socialist lines.

This is the revolutionary alternative that the Marxists in the movement are fighting for. We urge you to join us in this struggle the struggle for socialism.

This Congress notes the Tory government is in a state of crisis, at a time when working people are experiencing a cost-of-living catastrophe.

Inflation is soaring, including rising energy bills, putting a squeeze on working people like never before. This comes on top of a decade of falling real wages and austerity.

At the same time, CEO pay has returned to pre-pandemic levels, and many companies are reporting record profits.

This Congress also notes the rise in industrial disputes that our affiliated unions are engaged in, including significant strike action being taken nationally by the RMT and CWU, amongst others.

This Congress believes that, given the generalised crisis facing the working class, coordinated action must be used across unions and industries, as part of a joint strategy to fight the bosses and Tories as a united movement.

This should include united action in the public sector over pay, starting with a one-day public-sector-wide strike. Mass demonstrations in every town and city should also be organised to coincide with this, demanding a general election in order to kick out the Tory government.

This should be linked to the fight for a socialist political programme, with an updated New Deal for Working People to include the following demands:

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