CAPITAL NO AGAINST US-CUBA BLOCKADE: CUBA WON THE VOTE FOR THE 29TH CONSEQUTIVE TIME AT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON VOTES AGAINST THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE

 

*AGAIN, CUBA WON THE VOTE FOR THE 29TH CONSEQUTIVE TIME AT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON VOTES AGAINST THE US CRIMINAL BLOCKADE! THIS TIME, IT IS 184 COUNTRIES YES TO LIFTING THE BLOCKADE, AS AGAINST 2 COUNTRIES - USA & ISRAEL'S NO AND 3 COUNTRIES - BRAZIL, COLOMBIA & UKRAINE ABSTENTION! NOW WITH THIS CONSISTENT REJECTION OF THE FEW MIGHT BY THE REST OF THE WORLD, WHERE SHOULD THE WORLD GO FROM HERE?*

*IT IS EITHER WE HAVE A UNITED NATIONS IN THE TRUE SENSE OF IT, IN WHICH ITS DECISION SHOULD BE RESPECTED BY ALL OR:*

*THE UN SHOULD CEASE TO EXIST AS A UNITED BODY, OR:*

 *IT EXISTS AS A UNITED IMPERIALIST OF USA & ISRAEL (UIUI),*

*WHILE THE REST OF THE 184 COUNTRIES CHART A NEW WORLD BODY DEVOID OF VETO POWER!*

 *THERE SHOULD BE NO EXCUSE ANY LONGER FOR COUNTRIES THAT VOTED YES, NOT TO DARE THE US ESTABLISHMENT TO RELATE FREELY WITH CUBA ON TRADE, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS!*

*IT'S TIME FOR HUMANITY TO CHALLENGE & DEFEAT THE HEGEMONY OF UNIPOLAR WORLD ON ALL FRONTS & BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!

Comrade Abiodun Aremu

COALITION OF NIGERIANS AGAINST AMERICAN BLOCKADE OF CUBA ASKS NIGERIA'S FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO VOTE AGAINST BLOCKED

The coalition of Nigerian Movements Against the US-CUBA blocked has in a letter to the NIGERIA'S federal government demanded the country voted against the blockade at the UN general assembly.

In a letter tittles " Need for Nigeria to vote for an end to the blockade of Cuba at the United Nations General Assembly"  addressed to Geoffrey Onyeama who is the incumbent Honourable Minister of the country's foreign affairs ministry, the coalition expresses desire and the hope of millions of the Nigerian people that the country should vote at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 for the resolution demanding a final end to the blockade against Cuba imposed by the United States since February 7, 1962.

The coalition said: " This final push is necessary because the American establishment has treated with contempt, the 28 resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly condemning the blockade".

Read the full letter: 

NIGERIA MOVEMENT

OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA

c/o Pascal Bafyau Labour House, NLC Headquarters, FCT Abuja

E-mail: [email protected]

22ND JUNE 2021

WE ARE A COALITION OF NIGERIANS AGAINST AMERICAN BLOCKADE OF CUBA!

COPIED: The United Nations General Assembly, c/o UN Office, Abuja-Nigeria.

His Excellency Geoffrey Onyeama.

The Honourable Minister

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Tafawa Balewa building

Federal Secretariat

Central Business District

Abuja- Nigeria.

Your Excellency,

Need for Nigeria to vote for an end to the blockade of Cuba at the United Nations General Assembly

We, a coalition comprising the two labour centres in the country; the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC ) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), radical progressive groups, intellectuals in the Academic unions, Civil Society and Human Rights organisations organised as the Nigerian Movement of Solidarity with Cuba, bring you greetings.

We write to express our desire and the hope of millions of the Nigerian people that our country should vote at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 for the resolution demanding a final end to the blockade against Cuba imposed by the United States since February 7, 1962. This final push is necessary because the American establishment has treated with contempt, the 28 resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly condemning the blockade.

Your Excellency, Nigeria as a country has consistently voted against the blockade, and at this final stage, we need to make our vote emphatic. This will be in line with the February 7, 2021 Resolution of the African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit, which in declaring “its solidarity with the People of Cuba” also expressed: “serious concern about the continuous and illegal Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.”

Needless to remind Your Excellency that Nigeria’s principled opposition against the blockade is basically in line with the very reason why the United Nations was established in 1945. Specifically, the United Nations Charter and Resolutions (Chapter 1, Article 1, part 2) states that the purpose of the UN Charter is: "To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace."

The right of all countries to self-determination which the US is challenging by its unilateral blockade of Cuba for six decades now, is sacrosanct. It was this principle Nigeria stood for in ensuring independence for all countries particularly in the bloody liberation wars in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. We need not remind ourselves of the fact that thousands of Cuban youths laid down their precious lives on the African soil fighting the forces of Apartheid and militarily defeating them to ensure the liberation of our continent.

Your Excellency, the US blockage against Cuba is tantamount to genocide as it blocks that country from free trade including freely importing and exporting goods, using credit from financial institutions or import life-saving medicines including for the Covid-19 pandemic. At the outbreak of the pandemic, the Chinese business mogul, Jack Ma sent life-saving medicines and emergency Covid-19 materials to various countries including Nigeria and Cuba. While all beneficiary countries received the aid, Cuba was denied because the American embargo forbids airlines delivering such aid to the Cubans.

In financial terms, the accumulated quantifiable cost of the blockade to Cuba over the past sixty years is $1,098,008,000,000. No country can be subjected to such haemorrhage and remain financially healthy.

Your Excellency, we urge our country not just to vote to tear down the walls of the American blockade, but also to give leadership to the African continent in delivering a strong ‘Yes’ vote against this unilateral and inhuman blockade against a sister country with ancestral roots in Africa.

As we look forward to positive results in this universal struggle for human liberation, please accept our high regards.

FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE COALITION OF NIGERIANS AGAINST AMERICAN BLOCKADE OF CUBA.

Comrade Abiodun Aremu

For and on behalf of the Nigerian Movement of Solidarity with Cuba

JOIN FORCES WITH THE NIGERIA MOVEMENT OF SOLIDARITY TO DEMAND NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT STAND FIRM AT THE UN TO DEFEND THE INTEREST OF CUBA

 *YOU ARR ASKED TOJOIN FORCES WITH THE NIGERIA MOVEMENT OF SOLIDARITY TO DEMAND THAT THE NIGERIA GOVERNMENT SHOULD STAND FIRM AT THE UNITED NATIONS TO DEFEND THE INTEREST OF CUBA! WE SHOULD NOTE THAT AFRICA REMAINS THE CENTRE-PIECE OF NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY! THE CUBAN REVOLUTION FOR THE PAST 60-YEARS (FROM THE ASSASSINATION OF PATRICE LUMUMBA BY THE US-CIA) STANDS FOR AFRICA!! AND AFRICA MUST STAND FOR CUBA!*

REMINDED: ACIS-M Urges Solidarity Movements in the Pan-African World & Friends across the world to participate in a virtual event in Solidarity with Cuba and against the US Blockade

ACIS-M Urges Solidarity Movements in the Pan-African World & Friends across the world to, on Thursday, June 17, 2021, (14hrs Nigeria Time) participate in this  virtual event in Solidarity with Cuba and against the US Criminal Blockade. You can follow on FB Siempre con CUBA - website of ICAP (Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples)!

*🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺*BE INFORMED*🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺!

*Over 578 Thousand Cubans Have Been Fully Vaccinated with a COVID-19 Vaccine!

Cuba is once again in the news for its fight against the pandemic. This morning Cuban President Miguel Diaz- Canel released figures from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reporting that 578,835 Cubans, from across the country, are now fully vaccinated against Covid -19 after having received all three doses of either Abdala or Soberana 2. This comes three months after starting its immunization campaign, showing the island’s vaccination indicators are now well above the world average.

According to MINSAP, from March 8 to June 11, 1,930,901 people received at least one dose of the Soberana 02 and Abdala which means that 17.3 percent of the Cuban population has already been immunized against the deadly disease.

In that same period, the average of the world’s population vaccinated with at least one dose was 12.5 percent, according to a study by Oxford University’s World in Data. Low-income countries accounted for 0.8 percent of that figure.

The results of the immunization campaign on the island are encouraging. Health authorities assured two doses of Soberana 02 produce antibodies in 80 percent of those vaccinated. The immune response rises to 100 percent after the third dose, “Soberana Plus”.

In May, the island reached a mortality rate of 60 deaths per million inhabitants, which places it among the countries least affected by the pandemic. While the world is scrambling for the few vaccines on the market, which end up in the arms of citizens of the wealthiest countries, Cuba is moving towards full immunization of its population by 2021.

However, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel warned that there is still a long way to go and warned that in the next few days, the number of COVID-19 cases in the country could increase. While Havana has had a slight epidemiological improvement, thanks to the progress of the immunization campaign in the capital, the rest of the island could experience a jump in contagions.

“We are not doing things right. The population needs to raise the risk perception. Vaccines alone will not put an end to COVID-19 transmission, so we need to continue to strictly comply with health measures,” the president said during a government meeting attended by local authorities from each province.

The new strains of COVID-19 are generating greater transmission at a faster rate, but this is not the only cause of the increase in contagions. “Many citizens are becoming overconfident because the country is immersed in the vaccination campaign and are not complying with the curfew, social distancing, correct use of face masks, and other measures imposed by the government,” Health Minister Jose Angel Portal informed.

On Tuesday, Cuba registered 1,537 new cases, the highest number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. “The virus is having a high contagiousness in the country,” Health Ministry epidemiological Director Francisco Duran warned.

Authorities are also alarmed by the high number of infections being reported among Cuban children and adolescents. In the last 24 hours, 263 children under the age of 20 were diagnosed with the disease, bringing to 40,000 the number of pediatric-aged patients who have been infected with COVID-19 since 2020.

The increase of children in hospital centers due to the virus prompted the Ministry of Health to include them in the clinical trial phase of Soberana 02. This Monday, 25 volunteers between 12 and 18 years old received the first dose of the Cuban vaccine developed by the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV).

Cuba is the only country worldwide that is giving equal priority to the elderly, people with underlying diseases, and minors. “In these months of struggle, the government has joined forces with the Cuban biotechnology industry.

No one will be left helpless, everyone matters. We are not stopping in our quest to have the entire population protected from this new threat,” Díaz-Canel clarified.

#JUNE12, #DEMOCRACYDAY: THE PEOPLE UNITED CAN NEVER BE DEFEATED!

*ACIS-M CLARION:

*WE ALL JUST NEED TO BE CAUTIOUS TO AVOID A SENSELESS WAR THAT WILL SPARE NO ONE IN THIS COUNTRY –NIGERIA!*

*THE RICH CLASS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SUFFERINGS IN NIGERIA & ACROSS THE WORLD!*

*THE ONLY WAR REQUIRED IN NIGERIA & IN ALL THE PAN-AFRICAN WORLD IS THE WAR THE POOR CLASS OF PEOPLE MUST CARRY TO THE RICH CLASS!*

*RESTRUCTURING NIGERIA ON THE TERMS OF THE RICH CLASS IS NOT THE SOLUTION TO NIGERIA’S PROBLEM, IT IS A DECEPTION, IT IS NOT RESTRUCTURING! IT IS AN AGENDA OF THE RULING CLASS TO REPLACE ONE RULING BANDIT OF BUHARI WITH ANOTHER BANDIT OF RULERS FROM EITHER THE SOUTH-EAST OR SOUTH-SOUTH OR THE SOUTH-WEST IN THEIR 2023 PERMUTATIONS!*

*• IT WILL END THE SAME WAY – THE RULING CLASS IN EACH STATE WILL CONTINUE TO EXPLOIT THE PEOPLE, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE THE SAME “PEOPLE” – THAT IS, THE SAME ETHNIC GROUP!*

*THE ONLY RESTRUCTURING THAT CAN MAKE NIGERIA WORK & ALL CAN LIVE AS A COMMUNITY OF HUMAN BEINGS IS FOR THE POOR CLASS TO REMOVE THE RICH CLASS IN THE RUNNING OF OUR SOCIETY!*

Yes, the situation in Nigeria is very tense across the country and more tensed in the East of Nigeria at the moment because a faction of the ruling class having Buhari at the head, with others in the same class, have compunded the fears of uncertainty and the general stateof insecurity coupled with the continuing and extreme situation of poverty and deprivation, which are glaringly decernible on the faces of the working people and oppressed poor masses walking the streets to get something to bite/ eat, just to survive till the following day/ moment!

The fears are such that all over the country, there are conflicting reports subject to diverse interpretations and depending from which side of the ethnically-minded/ religion groups and the individuals the narrative is coming from! As a matter of FACT, the reality in Nigeria is such that the POLITY IS NOT ETHINICALLY &RELIGIONLY NEUTRAL!

Everyone now talks war, war & war. But everyone has her or his reasons to war but all the cries of war and war without clear understanding of the war to fight and the direction to fight will end up in monumental destruction! Ethnic war in Nigeria will lead to senseless destruction! Religious war will lead to senseless destruction! YES, THERE SHOULD BE A WAR TO FIGHT IN NIGERIA!

THE WAR TO FIGHT IN NIGERIA IS A LIBERATION STRUGGLE BY THE CLASS OF THE POOR AGAINST THE CLASS OF THE FEW RICH WHO LOOT THE ECONOMY AND MAKE THE COUNTRY SUBSERVIENT TO & MANIPULATED BY INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL!

The war that the poor and oppressed classes must wage decisively to end the tyranny of ruling class of exploiters, who have been responsible for the poverty, joblessness, lack of healthcare, in short, neglect of the welfare of the Nigerian people Nigeria is the Class war! That is the war of the poor masses, of the unemployed millions of youth, of the working population in public and private sectors employment who have been reduced to starvation wages, destitution and penury! It should be a war of the women and the aged who live in starvation and hunger without decent means of livelihood against the class of the rich who have been looting the country since the 1960 Flag independence that Nigeria was given till date! It should be a War of all in Nigeria who are under one form of injustice, oppression and domination against the ruling class rogues and their political, religion and cultural jobbers. That is the war to fight. And to fight this kind of war requires correct understanding of what the issues are? The Class of the poor needs to unite in their organisations and associations! They need to unite and fight together against council officials who extort them on a daily basis, fight as a collective against police harassment and brutalities, need to fight government and their agencies at all levels that deny the workers and all categories of the poor masses, access to basic necessities of decent living – education, healthcare, social welfare, housing and sanitation, safe water and uninterrupted electricity at cost that is commensurate to the poor wages they receive or income they earn, etc!

YES, OUR PROBLEM REQUIRES A REVOLUTION! BUT WHAT REVOLUTION?

THE REVOLUTION DESIRED SHOULD BE THE OVERTHROWN OF THE UNJUST SYSTEM OF CAPITALIST ARRANGEMENT OF SOCIETY & ITS REPLACEMENT WITH A JUST SYSTEM!

• IS THE REVOLUTION WE WANT JUST ABOUT EVERYONE COMING OUT, GROUDING THE COUNTRY TO A HALT AND WAILING ON THE STREETS: WE NO GO GREE, WE NO GO GREE?

- NO, IT IS NOT!

• THE REVOLUTION TO STRUGGLE FOR SHOULD FOCUS ON BRINGING ABOUT A NEW & JUST SYSTEM OF RECONSTRUCTING NIGERIA IN A WAY THAT THE COUNTRY’S ECONOMY & WEALTH IS UNDER THE COLLECTIVE CONTROL AND DEMOCRATIC MANAGEMENT OF THE WORKING PEOPLE AND POOR MASSES!

• BUT TO ACHIVE THIS, THE CLASS OF THE POOR (ORGANISATIONS OF THE WORKERS, FARMERS, POOR WOMEN & TRADERS, YOUTH & STUDENTS, ACADEMICS & PROFESSIONALS, OPPRESSED & MARGINALISED PEOPLE AND OTHERS, WHO SUFFERE UNDER THIS UNJUST SYSTEM MUST OPEN THEIR SENSES, OPEN THEIR EYES, OPEN THEIR EARS & OPEN THEIR MOUTHS (AS FELA ANIKULAPO-KUTI ABAMI EDA SING AM LONG LONG TIME AGO), MUST UNITE AND ORGANISE TO END THIS UNJUST SYSTEM THAT WOULD ALWAYS THROW UP DISASTROUS RULERS LIKE BUHARI IN NIGERIA & HIS LIKES, IN ALMOST ALL OVER THE PAN-AFRICAN WORLD!

• THIS CAN BE ACHIEVED ONLY WHEN THE POOR AND OPPRESSED CLASSES REMOVE THE CLASS OF RICH OPPRESSORS WHO ARE MISRULING THE COUNRY TOWARDS DISASTER AND COLLAPSE!

WHO ARE THE RICH CLASS IN NIGERIA TO FIGHT?

• The rich class to fight in Nigeria are both local and international. At the Nigeria level, they are the rulers who loot the country, who sponsored bandits and miscreants to silence the poor, who used public offices to convert our collective patrimony to their private ownership by taking over electricity, making our refineries not to work, using the policies of privatisation to covert public properties to their own. They are very few but very powerful and influential because they use the funds stolen from our collective wealth to corrupt the society!

WJO ARE THE POOR CLASS?

• Workers and all categories of working people and poor masses in Nigeria and their likes in other places across the world who are under the rule and domination of the rich class

ACIS-M IS FOR A UNITED NIGERIA, A UNITED PAN-AFRICAN WORLD & A UNITED WORLD BASED ON THE JUST SYSTEM OF SOCIALISM AND NOT THE UNJUST SYSTEM OF CAPITALISM!

NOTES!

A WORD ON JUNE 12 CELEBRATION IN NIGERIA!

• JUNE 12 - YES, A WATER SHED IN NIGERIA POLITICAL HISTORY, BUT WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEANS IN TODAY'S REALITIES?

• TO THE RULING CABAL, JUNE 12 IS NOW A PUBLIC HOLIDAY TO CONSOLIDATE THEIR MISRULE & CONTINUE THE LOOTING OF PUBLIC FUNDS WITH IMPUNITY!

• TO MOST NGOs & NGIs, IT IS ANOTHER PERIOD OF SEEKING PATRONAGE & CRUMBS FROM THE POLITICAL JOBBERS!

• TO ACIS-M, IT SHOULD BE AN OPEN DAY FOR ALL CHAPTERS TO MEET, HOLD IDEOLOGICAL CLASSES & PUBLIC AWARENESS PROGRAMME!

Issued by the ACIS-M Central Coordinating Council – June 12, 2021

E-mail: [email protected], www.thepeopleng.com

ACIS-M SUPPORTS the Declaration of denunciation of the International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People's Power of the Republic of Cuba before a new maneuver by the European Parliament

We have learned to our disgust that a small group of MEP’s servile to Washington have placed an item on the agenda of the next plenary session of the European Parliament (8 June) regarding the “Political Situation and Human Rights in Cuba”.

They are seeking the adoption of a resolution against our country based on distortion of the reality we are living; they are determined to sever the bonds that unite us with the European Union and to block implementation of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement currently being negotiated on the basis of mutual respect and equality between our states.

Such actions come as no surprise to us; they reflect the double standards, the discriminatory approach that is their hallmark.

They feign concern for human rights in Cuba, a free, independent, sovereign, democratic nation that embraces social justice and human solidarity, whose people decide their destinies and where - based on an inviolable principle enunciated by José MartÍ and enshrined in our constitution - the first law of the Republic is the Cubans’ cult of the full dignity of Man.

It is strange that, being so exercised by the human rights situation in Cuba, they have not convened the European Parliament to consider the main violation of human rights suffered by our people, namely the genocidal blockade imposed on our country for the last 62 years and intensified to incredible levels in the midst of a pandemic and a global economic crisis; a blockade which also affects European citizens - notably their entrepreneurs.

They are also acting in total indifference to flagrant violations of such rights in America and other countries, some European, which during the last 12 months have seen a rising trend in police brutality, the application of policies that discriminate against migrants, speeches inciting hatred and promoting supremacist ideas, curtailment of freedom of the press and freedom of expression, accompanied by manifestations of racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance.

Be aware that those behind this maneuver do not represent the totality of the MEPs. These politicized exercises serve external interests seeking to compromise the EU’s autonomy in matters of foreign policy.

*We respectfully call on the MEPs not to acquiesce in this duplicitous stratagem, to put a stop to the maneuver. Havana, June 4, 2021, 63rd year of the Revolution, International Relations Commission. National Assembly of the People’s Power.*

*THE CUBAN REVOLUTION WILL OUTLIVE ALL SUCH INSIDIOUS POLICIES & FALSEHOODS!*