Int. Meeting 2007, Minsk, Resolution of Solidarity With
Cuba
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From: Communist Party of Cuba, Monday, November 19, 2007
http://www.pcc.cu/pccweb/
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Resolution of Solidarity With Cuba

With the victory of the Cuban Revolution on 1st January
1959, result of a rich tradition of struggle, the Cuban
people achieved their true and definitive independence.

For nearly half a century, the world has been witness to
how the Cuban nation, in heroic resistance to the constant
threats and acts of aggression by US imperialism, has been
able to defend the right to national self-determination and
sovereignty.

One of the clearest expressions of the policy of harassment
adopted by successive US administrations towards Cuba has
been the application, for the last 48 years, of a savage
economic, financial and trade embargo, tightened by the
present Republican government of George W Bush, which has
caused considerable losses - totalling over $89 bn - to
that small nation's economy.

This policy of sanctions, whose primary aim is to destroy
the Revolution and the Cuban nation and reinstate
dependent, neo-colonial capitalism in Cuba, classes as an
act of genocide that violates the most basic principles of
trade and international law and has been opposed by 183
nations at the UN General Assembly.

The criminal embargo is accompanied by support,
organization and funding by Washington and the US special
services, for terrorist activity against Cuba that has
included the slaying of 3,478 Cubans.

One of the most horrendous crimes against that nation has
been the blowing-up in flight of a Cuban civil airliner, in
October 1976, killing 76 people; its instigator is the
known terrorist and self-confessed criminal, Lu�s Posada
Carriles.

In a shameful act that demonstrates the double standard
adopted by the current Bush administration in its
proclaimed war on terrorism, they released this brutal
murderer, while unjustly holding prisoner five brave young
Cubans who have struggled against the terrorism organized
by the extreme right-wing groups based in Miami.

Antonio, Fernando, Gerardo, Ram�n and Rene, who risked
their lives every day struggling against terrorism, were
unjustly and severely sentenced at the culmination of a
fraudulent, rigged trial that was really a political
vendetta against the Cuban Revolution.

The cause of the Five has aroused solidarity the world
over; there are now thousands of voices being raised to
demand their immediate release and calling for the real
terrorists, like Lu�s posada Carriles, to be brought to
justice.

For all these reasons, the Communist and Workers' Parties
gathered in Minsk, demand an end to the embargo the Cuban
people have now suffered for 48 years and the immediate
release of the Five Cuban Heroes, illegally detained in US
prisons for the last nine years.

Cuba has every right to develop its own political, social
and economic system, based of the free decision of its
people, and has established a democratic system with
extensive public participation, of justice and equality
with rights for all its citizens, while achieving important
social goals that are seen as exemplary by many of the
world's peoples.

Minsk 05.11.207