Cuban National Identitiy and Socialism

On Dec. 7, 1989 Fidel said: "In Cuba, the Revolution, socialism and independence are indissolubly linked." He was contrasting the Cuban situation with Eastern Europe when he pointed out that "Cuba is not a country in which socialism came in the wake of the victorious divisions of the Red Army." I want to focus on this linkage: Revolution--socialism--independence. We must understand how that linkage has been forged through a long history of struggle for independence that has …

…nation has only two alternatives: through socialism it can maintain its independence and social justice, but if it gives up socialism (as Geoge Bush demands) it will become a colony of Miami and that would be the death of the Cuban nation. It is with that understanding of the New World Order (an order that is very old and familiar to them) that the Cuban people proclaim their determination to defend socialism to the death.