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The Cuba Libre Story Ep. 6

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“Do not allow yourselves to be deluded by the abstract word freedom. Whose freedom? It is not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but the freedom of capital to crush the worker.”

— Karl Marx, On the Question of Free Trade 1848

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Ernesto Che Guevara, Letters From Afar: The Congo And Bolivia, To My Children

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Our free eyes open now on new horizons and can see what yesterday, in our condition as colonial slaves, we could not observe: that “Western Civilization” disguises behind its showy facade a picture of hyenas and jackals. That is the only name that can be applied to those who have gone to fulfill such “humanitarian” tasks in the Congo. A carnivorous animal that feeds on unarmed peoples. That is what imperialism does to men. That is what distinguishes the imperial “white man.”

Che Guevara, Speech at the United Nations

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Barricade in a small street during the Paris Commune 1871

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“Government power will never let workers tread the road to freedom; it is the instrument of the lazy who want to dominate others, and it does not matter if the power is in the hand of the bourgeois, the socialists or the Bolsheviks, it is degrading. There is no government without teeth, teeth to tear any man who longs for a free and just life.” - Nestor Makhno, The Anarchist Revolution

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Aid should be conditional; if not we run the risk of the aid turning into the exact opposite of what we intend, becoming money that allows the lords of the revolution to enjoy princely holidays, and the Freedom Fighters to sacrifice and sell out their people and hold back the development of the revolution. If that happens, we turn ourselves into allies of imperialism. Nothing is cheaper for imperialism than to drop a few thousand dollars on the table at a conference of liberation movements in Africa. (I have no doubt that, if it does not already do this, it will in the future.) The distribution of the money then causes more conflicts, divisions and defeats than an army would inflict on the battlefield.

We must draw our conclusions from these real objective facts and condition our aid on the revolutionary conduct of the movements and their leaders. To replace colonialism with neocolonialism, or one group of neocolonialists with another group that does not look so bad, is not a correct revolutionary strategy.

Che Guevara, Congo Diary

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Meena Keshwar Kamal was an Afghan feminist activist who founded Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) when she was 21 years old, to “give voice to the deprived and silenced women of Afghanistan”. 4 years later, she launched a feminist magazine Payam-e-Zan (Women’s Message). Through this magazine, she exposed the brutality of fundamentalist groups. She also established schools for refugee children, a hospital and handicraft centers in Pakistan for refugee Afghan women. She also campaigned against the Russian forces and their puppet regimes in Afghanistan.

She was assassinated shortly before her 31st birthday, in 1987 by agents of KHAD (Afghanistan branch of KGB). [1]

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Che Guevara, Speech at United Nations, 1964

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IRAN. Tehran. 1979. An anti Shah demonstration.

Photograph: A. Abbas/Magnum Photos

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Che Guevara lighting a cigar for Camilo Cienfuegos, Havana, Cuba, 1959 (Photo by © Lester Cole)

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Che Guevara, Speech on Imperialism, 1964

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Gordon Parks (photograph), Malcolm X, 1963 [The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. © The Gordon Parks Foundation]

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‘Women’ (1968) by Palestinian revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani

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People’s Park (Berkeley - 1969)

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Che Guevara sitting in a tree and reading, Bolivia c. 1966