The Socialist Movement of Ghana has extended its support by celebrating the achievements of Cuba in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic internationally.
A statement signed by Mr. Kwesi Pratt Jnr., the General Secretary of the Movement said, “Cuba prevails over COVID-19 despite decades of US military, economic, trade, political, and diplomatic aggression that have left her people deprived of many necessities of modern life.”
“US aggression extended even to blocking Cuba’s access to US$643 billion in loans provided by the world’s leading financial institutions mobilized precisely to support national responses to this devastating disease,” the statement added.
According to the Socialist Movement, “Cuba prevails because of its socialist public health systems; its heroic health workers; its culture of solidarity and democratic organization; the strength of its scientific establishment (which has given the world an entire suite of drugs and delivery systems to prevent and cure COVID-19).”
“Cuba prevailed because of the resilience of its people and the leadership of the Communist Party and its unwavering focus on the urgent needs of People – rather than private profit or geopolitical advantage,” the statement noted.
It added, “Cuba as always, even in the depths of its own distress selflessly opened it arms and offered its resources to the world putting its own health workers at risk to protect people in countries around the world-including countries that have acquiesced or even participated in the international campaigns that have cost so many Cuban lives. There can be no higher demonstration of socialist internationalism than Cuba has shown in this global crisis.”
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The statement stressed that the Socialist Movement also stands with the people of Cuba in the face of renewed US-led efforts to destroy Cuba’s revolution and reinstate neo-colonialism in that island nation.
“Given the extreme hardships that Cuba faces because of imperialist aggression; domestic and internationalist pandemic management including investment in new vaccines for humanity it is natural that Cuba’s leaders have urgently sought to reopen the country’s tourism industry – its major source of foreign exchange,” the statement averred.
This development, the statement indicated, had been celebrated by a grateful world, saying, “Unfortunately, the rabidly anti-revolutionary Cuban exile community in the US (responsible for decades of military attacks, assassinations, economic sabotage, espionage), and their sponsors in the US foreign intelligence system have panicked at the positive reputation that Cuba and the revolution is gaining everywhere.”
“They have responded with internal provocations and propaganda to nurture unrest and build up towards mass anti-government demonstrations in Cuba which can then be presented globally as a justification for the typical US intervention and regime-change. This tactic has flopped badly, and no demonstrations have occurred,” the Kwesi Pratt Jnr. signed statement pointed out.
The counter-revolutionary forces have therefore changed their propaganda line to suggest massive suppression of dissent by the revolutionary leadership despite the obvious absence of this.
“The US’ machinations against Cuba stand exposed and condemned by all justice-loving people everywhere,” the Socialist Movement noted, adding, “Certainly, we of SMG stand shoulder with the Communist Party and the heroic People of Cuba.”
