This was what Obama came to realise but which a Republican regime financed by Cuban exiles is unlikely to pursue with much energy.Īs it is the regime in Havana has only been able to survive the last quarter of a century through its trade deals with China and Venezuela. Indeed the US embargo on Cuba and its attempt to foist this embargo on the world has only polished the “anti-imperialist” credentials of the regime in the eyes of the left-wing of capitalism. But this does not make it different from any other capitalist entity. In capitalist terms the outstanding achievement of the Castro regime is that it has warded off the hostility of the most powerful state in history only 90 miles from its shores for almost 6 decades. Castro handed over power to his brother Raul a decade ago. In fact that era started some time back with the collapse of the USSR and the withdrawal of its subsidies. The British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, in uncharacteristically diplomatic mode, described Castro as an 'historic if controversial figure' whose death 'marks the end of an era for Cuba and the start of a new one for Cuba's people'.

In some respects some of the facts are dated (Castro has, for example, since apologised to all the gays the regime locked up – we don’t know whether this was any kind of consolation for the victims especially since the macho, anti-gay culture still exists in today’s Communist Party of Cuba) but the essential argument about the nature of the Cuban economy and state has not. To combat the great lie of Cuba’s supposed socialism, we are publishing here three articles which we produced in 19 commemorating the various anniversaries of Castro’s January 1959 victory. For the blindly pro-Castro camp improving education and health care wipes out the memory of all those judicially murdered, and the even greater number locked up, for resisting a regime which was based on mass surveillance and the ubiquitous secret police, the G2. For the supporters of capitalism, socialism is Stalinism with its lack of freedom and its gulags.

Their common ground is the great lie that Cuba was “socialist”. Those dancing in the streets in Miami and those mourning around the world agree on at least one thing on the death of Fidel Castro Ruz.

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