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DIÁLOGO (ANÁLISIS Y DEBATE) - Octubre 2002
- Date:
- 01 Oct 2002
- Time:
- 11:55:24
Comments
Dear Comrades and Friends,
1. Yesterday on television we watched film of the United States of America Food Fair in
Havana. Lenin was a firm advocate of the theory and practice of learning from opponents.
In his analysis of Free Trade, Karl Marx showed that, although it leads to mass
empoverishment, it enables the dissemination of new and positive social forces.
2. We hope that many Cubans learned from the Food Fair experience. Viewed from afar,
Fidel looked healthy, wealthy, wise and confident as he fed young livestock with a baby’s
milk bottle and teat. By importing livestock for breeding purposes, Cuba can move more
rapidly along the road to sustainable, more self-sufficient economic development.
3. On the other hand, imports of yanki food products such as Wrigley’s Chewing Gum
seem to be a further movement in the direction of importing the ideology that contributed
to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Socialist bloc.
Any gum, chum?
La mericana te buca,
y tú le tiene que huí;
tu inglé era de etrái guan,
de etrái guan y guan tu tri.
By studying your own cultural traditions, you can recognize the need to learn from the
yanki so that you will gain your independence from your most dangerous foe,
y dentro de poco
Camina, caminante,
sigue;
camina y no te pare,
sigue.
4. While nutrition-free Gum was being handed out, informal discussions have been taking
place that are directed toward formulating an Ibero Latin American response to the crisis
in municipal government.
5. Recent events in Argentina and elsewhere have compelled discussion, directed toward
practical action, aimed at solving the problems of municipalities and other local
governments. The precise nature of these events are easily summarized;
a. The Anglo-American drive toward War against Terrorism.
b. The Environmental crises, particularly the crisis associated with the pollution by toxins
of the world’s oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and streams.
c. Dependency on the United States of America, including extensive use of the United
States dollar with concomitant international trade efforts to penetrate markets in that
country that are being more intensely protected by new legislation.
d. “Corruption” within high levels of the corporate and governmental sectors.
6. The Anglo-American drive toward “War on Terrorism” Drive.
On the anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon,
the Prime Minister of Canada expressed the opinion that terrorism of this kind is a
consequence of the ever more intense empoverishment of the majority of the people of the
world. During last weekend’s meetings of the world financial leaders in Washington,
anti-poverty demonstrators and many participants shared at least one single purpose, the
avoidance of war. Similar demonstrations were held in London and in several Canadian
cities.
7. The Environment and Municipalities
Yesterday, the Governor General of Canada announced, from the Throne, the plans of the
Canadian state during the forthcoming legislative session. Emphasis will be placed
on the needs of municipalities for clean water, fresh air, affordable housing and public
transport.
8. During the 1999 Assembly of Iberolatinoamerican Heads of State, Provincial
Governors and Mayors, I had the opportunity to discuss Canada with several delegates
who are aware that the Canadian Constitution prohibits direct public communication
between provincial or municipal government authorities and their foreign counterparts.
Such exchanges must be ‘authorized’ by the appropriate ministry of the government of
Canada. The Constitution does not preclude private, informal talks. Generally, ‘elected’
ministers prefer careful preparation for such talks by their ‘permanent’, well-informed
officials.
9. Canadian policy toward Argentina and other members of the Organization of
Iberolatinoamerican States can be summarized easily. Canada has “Observer” status.
With the certainty that the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA)
will not be ratified as expected in 2006, the broad cultural zone of Iberolatinoamerica is
seen as an alternative market.
10. Canadian policy in terms of international trade is revealed through the mandate of
the
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Like Cuba, Canada does not
provide non-emergency international aid. Canada engages in potentially mutually
advantageous trade policies that are directed toward mutual self-sufficiency. Special
emphasis is placed on investments that will enhance the skills of self sufficiency, especially
among women who, as mothers, are the custodians of future generations.
11. Like the United States of America, Canada is an exporter of food. Unlike the
United States of America, Canada provides credits to importers of high quality Canadian
food and agricultural products. (In Iberolatinoamerica, Colombia is the largest customer
of the Canadian State Grain Marketing Board, an international competitor to the yanki
Cargill Corporation.)
12. There is broad agreement that the agricultural practices in the United States of
America contribute to environmental pollution of waterways and undermine the viability
of agricultural producers elsewhere, including Canada
13 We understand that, in Cuba, and elsewhere, inadequate transportation systems
restrict your countries’ capacity to distribute to local municipalities nutritious locally
produced foods that could be substituted for those that we saw on today’s film.
14. Canada competes with Brazil in the construction of aircraft.. Canada competes with
Brazil in the production of Light Rail Transport and other potentially useful means of
improving the transportation system. In the city of Winnipeg, Canadian workers who are
members of the Canadian Autoworkers Union are employed in North America’s largest
bus manufacturing factory. The drive to intensify competition takes all of us to the
bottom of the barrel.
15. In Caracas, Fidel drew attention to the strategic importance of investment in public
transport. The José Marti Terminal in the airport of Havana was constructed - with
excessive haste? - by skilled Canadians and Cubans.
16. Yesterday, the Canadian state announced the intention to increase funding for skill
enhancement programs. Since your Revolution, Canada has been your country’s most
reliable trading partner and friend. Although patriotism is the last refuge of the intellectual
rogue, we believe that, by working together to acquire complementary skills, Cuba and
Canadian workers of the Era of the Scientific and Technological Revolution can
overcome their tristesse, their personal alienation, and rediscover the principles of
proletarian internationalism
17. Advantages of economies of scale in the development of sustainable economic
growth will result from greater cooperation between countries that are members or are
directly associated with the Organization of Iberolatinoamerican States
David Whitefield
- Date:
- 04 Oct 2002
- Time:
- 12:57:42
Comments
Dear Members of the Party of Social Revolutionary Democrats of Cuba,
The international struggle to prevent war is urgent.
What lessons can be learned from the peoples of France and Germany?
Yours fraternally,
David Whitefield.
*****
Subject:
[lettre] SYLVIANNE, GHERARD ET NOUS...
Date:
Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:37:59 +0200
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EDITO : SYLVIANNE, GHERARD ET NOUS...
Par une coïncidence de calendrier, Sylvianne Agacinski livre son
"journal interrompu" par la défaite de Lionel Jospin la semaine où, un
autre social-démocrate, également chef de gouvernement sortant, connaît
une victoire que personne ne croyait plus possible. Sans prétendre à
l'exhaustivité, nous vous proposons de tirer sept leçons de la
comparaison des campagnes française et allemande.
http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=325
BUDGET 2003 : ON CONNAÎT LA CHANSON...
"C’est un budget qui traduit des choix tout à fait clairs, déterminés,
assumés" a annoncé le Ministre du Budget, Alain Lambert, à la sortie du
conseil des ministres. Vouzemoi a décidé de le prendre au mot et de
regarder de plus près ces fameux choix, ,clairs, déterminés et assurés..
Rien de bien original au final, mais plutôt un petit air de déjà-vu...
http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=322
LES TRIBUNES ET CONTRIBUTIONS PUBLIÉES RÉCEMMENT PAR DES
RESPONSABLES DU
PS ET DES INTELLECTUELS
http://www.vouzemoi.net/presse/
L'APPEL D'ARGELÈS
Texte fondateur du courant "Nouveau Monde"
27 septembre 2002
http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=324
NOTRE LIGNE L'EMPORTERA CHEZ LES MILITANTS
Entretien avec Jean-Luc Mélenchon
(Le Parisien, 3 octobre 2002)
http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=329
L'UNION ET LA CLARIFICATION
Tribune de Dominique Strauss-Kahn
(Le Monde, 3 octobre 2002)
http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=327
UNE NOUVELLE MAISON POUR TOUS LES RÉFORMISTES
Tribune de Massimo d'Alema et Giuliano Amato
(Le Monde, 3 octobre 2002)
http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=326
UN SOCIAL-LIBÉRAL EST AUSSI DE GAUCHE
Tribune de Bernard Poignant
(Libération, 30 septembre 2002)
http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=323
RETROUVER LA GAUCHE
Tribune de Martine Aubry
(Le Nouvel Observateur, 26 septembre 2002)
http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=328
GAUCHE D'EN BAS, DROITE D'EN HAUT
Tribune d'Olivier Besancenot
(Le Monde, 26 septembre 2002)
http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=321
A GAUCHE, L'ARCHAÏSME EST CHEZ LES PRÉSUMÉS "MODERNES"
Tribune de Jacques Généreux
(Libération, 25 septembre 2002)
http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=320
CHANGER LE PS POUR CHANGER LA VIE
Tribune de Patrick Bloche, Christophe Caresche,Gaëtan Gorce, André
Vallini et Philippe Vuilque
(Libération, 24 septembre 2002)
http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=316
HENRI, TA MÉMOIRE FLANCHE...
Tribune d'Henri Weber et Alain Bergounioux
(Libération, 23 septembre 2002)
http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=315
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- Date:
- 08 Oct 2002
- Time:
- 12:17:16
Comments
Dear Comrades and Friends,
Recently, Canada’s Minister for International Cooperation announced a program to
implement decisions that were made during the G8 Summit at Kananaskis.
Yours fraternally,
David Whitefield
*****
Canada supports U of C’s work in international development
Susan Whelan, federal minister for International Cooperation, announced a $5.3-million
contribution to the University of Calgary to support sustainable energy and environmental
management in 26 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as democratic
development in Tanzania.
"The University of Calgary is bringing expertise developed
in Canada, particularly in Alberta, to countries that need
our help to attain self-sufficiency in energy management and to improve
their governance," Whelan said. "The work done by the university, with support
from the federal government, in Latin America and the
Caribbean has established active partnerships with the energy and the environmental
organizations in Canada and throughout the region."
Whelan made the announcement during her visit to the University of Calgary.
The funding provided by Canada, through the Canadian International Development
Agency (CIDA), will support the following initiatives with the University of Calgary:
• $4.8 million to work in partnership with OLADE (Latin American Energy
Organization representing 26 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean) and its
member countries to learn about and address the sustainable management of energy and
the environment.
• $530,000 to work with the Ethics Commissioner and the Ethics Unit of the
Civil Service Department in Tanzania, in partnership with IRIS Environmental Systems
Inc. This initiative will improve the performance of selected government departments,
non-governmental organizations and other institutions to promote human rights and the
rule of law, and to develop democratic practices in Tanzania.
"Good governance and democratic development are essential for making a
society more just," Whelan said. "By recognizing the importance of good governance and
respect for human rights, Tanzania is making a move in the right direction."
- Date:
- 10 Oct 2002
- Time:
- 15:08:00
Comments
Dear Comrades and Friends,
1.We continue to believe that Cuba has a good government and that, since your
Revolution, your greatest success was achieved in the Campaing against Illiteracy.
2.This poem was sent to me by an intelligent, honourable, “aboriginal” Canarian woman
who also uses the English language skillfully..
No nos atrevemos a creer en ellos
porque previamente estamos convencidos
de que no pueden ser otra cosa que un sueño.
Y sin embargo existen. Y, sin embargo, hay estrellas.
Bastaría con levantar la cabeza para verlas.
Yours fraternally,
David Whitefield
- Date:
- 11 Oct 2002
- Time:
- 15:11:13
Comments
Dear Comrades and Friends,
1. As thought is being given to the forty years since the October days when we stood on
the brink of nuclear war, we recall our Oxford demonstrations and analyses of the
provocative conduct of the leaders of the Soviet Union.
2. Although the Cold War has ended, there have been few signs of a Peace Bonus.
3. Nevertheless, we remain hopeful that, through honest diplomatic exchanges there will
be no intensification of the war against the people of Iraq and that, in collaboration with
Canada and others in the Organization of Iberolatinoamerican States, the decisions made
at the G8 and at the Sustainable Global Economy Conference will be implemented.
Yours fraternally,
David Whitefield
- Date:
- 13 Oct 2002
- Time:
- 16:37:55
Comments
Dear Comrades and Friends,
1.On several occasions, you have asked us to participate in your debate. Although we
have no wish to interfere in the internal affairs of your party we assume that, despite the
fact that you continue to make available our opinions that seem to contradict previously
published calumnies about conditions in Cuba, you wish that we continue with our
analysis.
2. Careful study of the reports of speeches by Labor Leaders in the United States of
America indicates continued use of the “political personality” analysis.
3. Did Clinton have the power to implement a fast track approach to the proposal to form
a Free Trade in the America Zone? On several occasions, Clinton has stated that the
President of the United States of America possesses few, if any, significant powers.
4. As the President of the United States of America’s efforts to obtain support for his war
plans are thwarted, the FTAA is dead in the water.
Can his decision at Kananaskis to apply the Peace Bonus to the work of securing the stock
of Russian nuclear equipment be supported by Labor Party leaders in the United States of
America?
Do Labor Party leaders in the United States of America agree with the recenly expressed
opinion of a Congressman in their country to the effect that the people of the region
around the capital city of the USA are more afraid of the sniper who is killing innocent
victims than they are of the President of Iraq?
Can Labor Party leaders in the United States of America support the environmental and
habitat efforts of Jimmy Carter?
5. We are old people, far from being wealthy as measured in material terrms. Some of us
are blind. Our ability to work is restricted by our physical weaknesses. We continue to
believe that the future is shaped by the social forces that compel class struggle and that the
nature of class struggle is specific to the conditions of the era.
6. Like everyone in the world, Cubans are emerging from your Period of Emergency
into the Era of the Scientific and Technological Revolution.
7. Workers in the United States of America and elsewhere have been liberated from the
need to work in variations of the Dark Satanic Mills. Many women in the United States of
America have been liberated from frequent, unwanted pregnancies. With the aid of
computers and soft-ware, they have been liberated from the need to use simple arithmetic
to balance their cheque books.
8. As a consequence, they have been liberated to watch Oprah Winfrey achieve a dream,
of being wealthier, in term of fiduciary dollars based only on “Trust in God”, than the
Queen of the United Kingdom.
9. Does Oprah possess more power than the Queen or the President of the United
States of America?
10. In general, although we discount the heroic interpretation of historical development,
we continue to believe that the greatest achievements in Cuba ( since poets such as
Nicolás Guillén engaged the hearts and minds - the human spirit - and poder popular in
the struggle for national liberation that resulted in your Revolution) were made by those
honourable women and men who engaged in the Campaign against Illiteracy.
11. I continue to respect and honour the Cuban whose family origins are in the Phillipines
who gave me a book of poems and who provided me with practical insight, like a breath
of fresh air, into the success of the Cuban Revolution. That Cuban is not a Very
Important Person.
12. We continue to believe that the struggle against illiteracy opened the way to the
on-going struggle, in Cuba, against hypocritic sexism and male chauvinism.
13. We are pleased that you are now reporting the ideas of French Workers and that,
through the Rules of the Fourth International, you are studying the finer aspects of your
own revolutionary tradition. In these ways, you are rediscovering the principles of
Proletarian Internationalism that had an important impact for the success of the Dock
Strike in London in the 1880’s.
14. Y ahora que Europa se desnuda
para tostar su carne al sol
y busca en Harlem y en La Habana
jazz y son, lucirse negro mientras aplaude el bulevar,
y frente a la envidia de los blancos
hablar en negro de verdad.
15. Some of our members who engaged actively in the struggle against Fascism in
Concentration and Death Camps made use, as best we could in difficult circumstances, of
the ideas of Georgi Dimitroff.
Yours fraternally,
David Whitefield
- Date:
- 13 Oct 2002
- Time:
- 23:38:36
Comments
Dear Comrades and Friends,
1. We did not mean to be insulting by failing to comment of your Party’s October
Program
2. This afternoon, while we were working in the kitchen with young people from
Venezuela to prepare a meal that will be served tomorrow when Canadians celebrate
Thanksgiving, we studied it carefully.
3. We continue to believe that your discussions should be aimed at providing informed
constructive critiques of the International Economic Program of the Cuban communist
party and the Caracas Strategic Action Plan.
Yours fraternally ,
David Whitefield
- Date:
- 14 Oct 2002
- Time:
- 12:10:25
Comments
Dear compañera Maribel C. Noda,
1. Once again, you have contacted me with, we assume, the expectation that we continue
to participate in your discussion. We are concerned by the appearance that we have sent
so many of the recent information and opinion pieces that are on your website. We were
not elected by members of your Party to provide ‘leadership’.
2. Although our fundamental political position has been made clear, we recognize that
repetition can be useful.
3. Cuba is the only country in this hemisphere with a State that openly proclaims its
socialist aspirations. We do not regard Cuba as a socialist state. We believe that the
Cuban state has done a good job of guiding the Cuban people through the Period of
Emergency and that individuals within the Cuban state apparatus and other institutions
remain committed to the highest of socialist - therefore humanitarian - ideals.
4. In addition, we believe that, with Poder Popular, democrats are reminded of a useful
organizational paradigm that was used many years ago by Pompey (Cneius Pompeius)
during the struggle to defend the Roman Republic from usurpation by imperialist senators
and more ambivalent members of the Julien gens.
5. We believe that by strengthening the Organization of Iberolatinoamerican States,
a cultural and trading bloc can be formed and that it will meet needs that were neglected
while Cuba was a member of the Comecon bloc. Although Canada has “Obervor” status
within the organization, I attended the 1999 Assembly of Heads of State, Provincial
Governors and Mayors, at the request of responsible Cuban officials.
6. At that time, I visited the beautiful city of Santa Maria del Rosario in the municipality
of Cotorro and was very strongly impressed - excited - by the spirit of the people there.
At that time, in the city of Havana, I met a Cuban poet who gave me a book that
massively contributed to my own understanding of the Afro-Cuban and Caribbean struggle
against imperialism.
7 If only to myself, that “little Cuban” made a contribution of enormous importance for
which I have never been able to express my thanks. Possibly, members of your Party
or other readers can contact that poet and, on my behalf, express my warmest respects
which, more abstractly, are shared by my family and close friends. We are old fashioned
people to whom such expressions are a matter of honour and that, by failing to express
them, we would be dishonouring all of the “little Cuban people”. .
8. Both before and subsequently, I have visited your country on many occasions. From
personal experience, I have seen how much progress has been made - even during the
Period of Emergency. Despite obstacles, the work of overcoming racism and hypocritical
male chauvinism has continued. Frequently, we read references to prostitution in Cuba.
Seldom do we read references to pimps and other intermediaries and more active abusers
of women. Unfortunately, the educational system that was introduced following the
Campaign against Illiteracy has not been adequately sustained.
9. Apparently, in Cuba as in Canada, the work that is done by teachers is neither highly
valued nor honoured. Neo-liberal cost accountants can not place a price on the benefits
that arise from the work of teachers and others within the “cultural sector”. As with the
environment, we recognize such benefits only after much damage has been done.
10. Today, in Canada, we celebrate the harvest Thanksgiving holiday. This year, we
have more than normal reasons for celebration.
11. During the G8 at Kananaskis and at the Sustainable Global Economy Conference
in South Africa, the Decision Makers agreed to take action to resolve the most serious
of the world’s problems. Unfortunately, Oprah Winfrey and those of her ilk have not
taken time from their pursuit of financial gain through the discussion of relative trivialities
to report on these events. If these events reduce the dangers of war, CNN correspondents
might have to develop alternative professional skills.
12. We believe that we have now said enough about ourselves and our Party. We shall
continue to read the contents of your website and to look forward to reading contributions
to your “Opinion about Topics” section.
Yours fraternally,
David Whitefield
- Date:
- 17 Oct 2002
- Time:
- 16:26:31
Comments
Fidel es un cabron, sus teorias comunistas e retrogradas impeden el desnvolvimento de vuestro país. Vamos ja é hora de derrubar el imperialismo que milita actualmente.
Abaxo Fidel
- Date:
- 23 Oct 2002
- Time:
- 17:58:35
Comments
Dear Comrades and Friends,
Although, like ourselves, Fidel is not as young as he was before his last birthday, we do not expect
him to display his credentials as a militant.
Yours fraternally,
David Whitefield
- Date:
- 27 Oct 2002
- Time:
- 01:05:20
Comments
En Cuba existen unas cosas que llaman sindicatos, como en otros paises que se llaman democraticos usan organizaciones llamadas empresas de seguridad privadas y se emplean para atemorizar a los trabajadores, o sencillamente los despiden porque intentan formar sindicatos o por que el trabajador no es lo suficiente sumiso con un sujeto que llaman Bos, o porque consideran que con el salario que pagan pueden conseguir por menos costos a otro trabajador.
En Cuba es el hombre del partido el temido por los trabajadores, en otros paises que se llaman democraticos por los gobiernos que en definitiva tambien empleados de las empresas y algunos como yo los llama capitalista la mujer trabajadora es la que mas sufre si tiene la mala suerte que el hombre de la empresa se enamora de ella.
Hasta cuando la clase trabajadora ha de sufrir a los hombres del Partido y a los hombres de las empresas,
Si pueden contestarme se lo agradezco.
Miguel Angel
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