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Download PDF File Workers of all lands, unite! CP BRITAIN CP BRITAIN CPB CP BRITAIN www.communist-party.org.uk Summer 2021 CUBA ECONOMIC SOLIDARITY OVERVIEW CAPITALISM CAMPAIGN Sharp divergencies are developing between the STATEMENT core imperialist countries and the rest of the world. In the rich countries the pandemic appears to be retreating. In the poor it remains rampant. SOLIDARITY In the rich vaccination generally ranges between 30 and 60 percent. Elsewhere it rarely rises above The Cuba Solidarity Campaign calls on the US 10 per cent. Biden’s promise of 500m doses to government to suspend the blockade of Cuba to poor countries over two years will only vaccinate allow emergency medical and humanitarian aid an additional 5 per cent by mid-2023. G7 BRITAIN into the country in order to ease the economic promises will only vaccinate 5 percent more. No and health crisis the island is experiencing. agreement was reached on relaxing patent rights The current emergency is a result of the on German or French vaccines. Only China ongoing US blockade, an additional 243 promises significant aid. Further waves seem sanctions imposed by the Trump administration, inevitable. and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This divergence will shape economic recovery. Cuba has shown incredible resilience in the Figures for investment, debt, inflation and food face of six decades of economic warfare by the OF security already diverge sharply. The recently US government in the form of a blockade released 2020 UNCTAD report on investment intended to strangle the economy and create flows shows a massive fall to developing countries hunger and hardship in an attempt to destabilise – far steeper than that between the developed the country. economies and reversing the recent trend of The Cuba Solidarity Campaign opposes any investment in ‘emerging markets’ where labour is calls for foreign intervention coming from those much cheaper. The only exception is China. in the US who seek to exploit the current Equally with the costs of borrowing. In the core difficulties and provoke unrest. The solution to imperialist countries, US and Germany, the challenges Cuba faces must be resolved by governments borrowing pays minimal interest. In the people of Cuba and we support the efforts developing countries the cost of government that the Cuban people and their government are borrowing is now up to 10 per cent – making any making to fight the pandemic in the face of investment in recovery, or even paying for mass ongoing sanctions and provocations from the US. REJECT NEW vaccination, far more difficult. On Sunday 11 July, some street protests took Inflation is also rising sharply. The UN Food place against the scarcity of food, medicines and and Agriculture Organisation reported wholesale power supplies. The vast majority of these prices for basic foods up 40 percent in May on protesters have genuine concerns regarding COLD WAR April – again penalising poorer countries. Already these shortages. President Miguel Díaz-Canel for May the US was reporting a 5 percent retail travelled to San Antonio de los Baños, site of the inflation rate and Germany 2.5 percent – original demonstration, and spoke to people reversing the deflationary trend of the last about their grievances. decade. In many indebted countries with Some groups are seeking to exploit and AGAINST CUBA depreciated currencies, such as Lebanon and provoke this difficult situation. They called for Sudan, retail food price inflation is already out of people to protest in other locations, resulting in SOLIDARITY business interests it represents. She control. These sharply rising prices are partly the protests in some towns and cities. In response, specifically condemned the huge result of the impact of the pandemic and the thousands of Cubans supporting the government The new Cold War against China and military build-up of imperialist forces disruption of global supply chains – but it is also a have taken to the streets across the island in Russia is being widened in an effort to over the past 18 months in the South product of the intensification of corporate counter-demonstrations against US interference. destabilise Cuba, Communist Party China Sea. takeover and monopolisation over the past two Now right-wing, pro-blockade, and regime- chair Liz Payne told the party’s political Liz Payne spoke of the hidden agenda years. change politicians and groups in the US are also Committee on Wednesday 14 July. behind the alleged ‘withdrawal’ of US, Even within blocs of nominally rich nations, seeking to manipulate the situation. They have She condemned calls in the US, British and other forces from such as the EU, disparities are sharply increasing. called for a so-called “humanitarian corridor” (a including from Miami mayor Francis Afghanistan. Germany, with only 4 percent unemployment, has pretext for US intervention) to be set up. Suarez, for military intervention and ‘This was no defeat for Western been able to provide a massive 3.1 trillion euro in Anyone genuinely interested in helping the slammed Western media coverage of imperialism’, she insisted, ‘because it state aid grants to its firms, 51 per cent of all state Cuban people at this time should instead be recent protests in Cuba as ‘blatantly will put a reactionary Islamist regime in aid grants allowed by the EU Commission. By calling for the US government to ease the distorted’ and ‘wholly one-sided’. power on the border with Tajikistan–- a contrast, the Spanish government, with 16 crippling sanctions. Ms Payne pointed to the false member of the Russian-led Collective percent unemployment, has only been able to The calls for US aid delivered through a US- portrayal of an enormous pro- Security Treaty Organisation - and very afford a minimal amount, 4 percent of the EU imposed “humanitarian corridor” are revolutionary, pro-government May Day near to China’s Xinjiang autonomous total. The same is the case in Italy with over 10 disingenuous and fraudulent. These are the same march in Havana in 2013 as an anti- region. percent unemployment. Italian government people who hypocritically call for humanitarian communist, anti-government protest in ‘As well as creating another huge borrowing costs are now between 1 and 2 intervention while supporting blockade policies July 2021. In another example, a pro- refugee crisis, a Taliban takeover would percent higher than Germany. Disparities within which have caused shortages of food, fuel and government rally last Sunday has been enable the stay-behind US and British the EU, already very high, are therefore likely to medicines. PARTY COMMUNIST described by the Guardian, Fox News, special forces to help drive jihadi grow bigger. CSC condemns those in the US and the Financial Times, the New York Times, destabilisation into the republics of the Rising inflation, and the expectation of even internationally who are cynically using the the Washington Times and Voice of former Soviet Union and across the sharper rises, is also impacting on commercial situation to destabilise Cuba, and supports America as a demonstration demanding border into western China’, she said. interest rates – now rising from previously Cuba’s right to self-determination. the resignation of Cuban president The Communist Party political minimal levels and likely to have serious The Cuba Solidarity Campaign appeals to the Miguel Díaz-Canel and his regime. committee condemned the consequences even in the richest nations. The Biden administration to observe the recent The Communist Party political Conservative government’s decision – level of corporate debt to GDP in the US reached United Nations General Assembly vote on 23 committee noted that some far left backed by MPs on Tuesday – to cut an unprecedented 46 per cent at $7T in 2020 – June 2021 which voted 184-2 for an end to the groups in Britain such as the Socialist foreign aid at the same time as Britain's well over the previous high of 44 percent which blockade of Cuba. It is immoral and dangerous Workers Party have also rushed to nuclear arsenal and military budget are immediately preceded the 2009 crash. This is the to seek to exploit the current struggles of the express their support for counter- set to rise substantially. This decision context for Biden’s $6T economic boost mainly Cuban people to serve the political objectives of revolution in Cuba. comes on top of the withdrawal of directed at infrastructure spending via major a few hardliners in Miami. Liz Payne said the recent NATO £130m from the United Nations corporations. In Britain corporate debt is even Genuine efforts to support the Cuban people summit confirmed that the new Cold Population Fund (UNFPA), a cut from higher as a percentage of GDP. In Turkey are welcome. Individuals and organisations can War was underway with the full backing which women across the globe will corporate debt (excluding banks) is 80 per cent of directly help by becoming members of CSC. of the British government and the big suffer the most. GDP and medium-term interest rates around 10 Donations can also be made to CSC’s COVID- per cent. The same is the case in South Africa and 19 Medical Appeal here: Brazil. At the minimum these trends will see a serious worsening of global disparities between COVID-19 Medical Appeal for Cuba rich and poor countries and between monopolies https://cuba-solidarity.org.uk/emergency- and the rest. At worst, it could produce another appeal-for-cuba/ Daily paper of the left www.morningstaronline.co.uk crash on the same scale as 2008-2010. ASIA TAIWAN AND HONG KONG CONGRATULATIONS THE US RAISES THE STAKES It has been revealed that Simons, a TO THE COMMUNIST ‘former’ US military intelligence agent, used money from Lai’s company to an investigator in China to dig up dirt on Joe PARTY OF CHINA and Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China to assist Trump’s presidential campaign.
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