Statement by Communist Workers’ Platform of the USA on the Indictment of Raúl Castro and Imperialist Threats Against Cuba
"The Communist Workers’ Platform of the USA denounces the profane indictment of General Raúl Castro by the Trump administration as a further escalation of its aggressive campaign to strangle the Cuban Revolution. Guided by its dangerous plans for control in the Western Hemisphere outlined in the National Security Strategy, US imperialism is utilizing this indictment to lay the groundwork for a military attack against Cuba and its people.
The deployment of the USS Nimitz stands as a provocative measure by the Trump administration and marks a new low for a government that came into office styling itself as a “peacemaker.” This military escalation is coupled with the tightening of economic sanctions and the energy blockade implemented in January, all designed to asphyxiate the Cuban people.
What we must first confront are the pathetic lies spun by the US Department of Justice, which attempts to rewrite history by claiming that a civilian aircraft was downed in 1996 on the orders of Raúl Castro, leading to four deaths. What is conveniently erased is that this aircraft belonged to Brothers to the Rescue, a CIA-backed terrorist organization and one of the narco-mafia groups based in Miami that led counterrevolutionary activities against the revolutionary government and the Cuban people. This group consistently violated Cuba’s airspace with propaganda air-drops, illegal radio transmissions, and bioterrorist attacks aimed at agriculture, all of which were documented and reported to the US government. These repeated attacks were supported and encouraged by US imperialism.
Such propaganda, prepared for years within the governments of Florida and enabled by its billionaire circles, has culminated in the passage of Trump’s “Anti-Communist Week” on November 7. It has reached the level of anti-communist curricula implemented in Florida’s schools, the designation of a so-called “Victims of Communism Day,” and the demonization of Marxism-Leninism at the state government level. All of these measures have been crafted to garner support for Marco Rubio’s vision of Cuba “joining the 21st century”—a “new future” representing a return to subjugation by US monopolies and parasites whose filthy hands have been behind the slaughter in Gaza, whose bombs have killed schoolchildren in Iran, and whose blood-soaked profits from war are intent on controlling the people of Cuba. The future they offer is one of slavery in the 21st century.
The US is attempting to hold Cuba responsible for its own terroristic operations, going so far as to charge a hero of the Cuban people as a criminal. Yet, Raúl’s role in the Cuban Revolution, alongside Fidel, Che, Camilo, and Juan Bosque, outshines all the slander, standing him high among the epic revolutionaries of our time.
The Trump administration, tasked by the US bourgeoisie to reshape the entire region in the interests of US monopolies, seeks to leverage the hubris gained from military interventions in Venezuela as a means to strangle the Cuban Revolution. It is now attempting to cement the decades-long blockade through military intervention, backed by the energy monopoly ExxonMobil, segments of the bourgeoisie that is centered in Florida—including the exiled Cuban Fanjul family of Domino Sugar and Florida Crystals—and a network of non-governmental organizations known as the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance led by Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat and funded directly from state coffers. This network of private interests includes billionaire Jorge Mas Santos, owner of Inter Miami and the Coral Gables-based construction firm MasTec. For years, these wealthy parasites have backed Rubio, the spearhead of the offensive campaign against Cuba.
The Communist Workers’ Platform USA remains unyieldingly on the side of Cuba and Comrade Raúl Castro, unapologetically behind the Cuban people and their Revolutionary Government.
Cuba Will Win!
Cuba is Not Alone!
Long Live Raúl!
Long Live the Cuban Revolution!
Central Committee of the Communist Workers’ Platform of the USA".
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