Onyesonwu Chatoyer: The Cuban Revolution and African Liberation Struggle

Blossom of Thought

Onyesonwu joins me for this episode on the Cuban story and socialism. Onyesonwu is A Cadre and organizer of AAPRP, editor with Hood Communist (an anti-imperialist online publication), on the national coordinating committee of the Venceremos brigade (an organization opposing the U.S. embargo and travel ban, supporting normalized relations and recognizing Cuba’s accomplishments).

We Discussion:

• The history of Cuba before the 1959 revolution, the Spanish-US war, and the story of the African people in Cuba's resistance to Spanish colonization.
• The armed uprising in Cuba overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista on January 1, 1959, and how the revolution changed Cuba and what it meant for imperialism.
• The establishment Cuban blockade under J F Kennedy’s administration and its effects on Cubans and Africans at large.
• Cuba’s contribution to the African liberation struggle.
• The misplaced barrage of attacks against Cuba in particular Ernesto “Che” Guevara and his involvement in the African struggle and the success and failures of that episode.
• Socialism in Cuba and Cubans still work in progress despite the US blockade.
• Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations’ relations with Cuba.
• Demystifying claims of Castro and dictatorship, Cuba and racism, Cuba as imperialist/colonizer in its aid to the African liberation struggle.
• The issue of “revolutionary theory” versus “lived experience” on Cuban and socialism.

“JOIN AN ORGANIZATION THAT WORKS FOR JUSTICE” – Onyesonwu Chatoya

Read Onyesonwu writings on Cuba and other Pan-African articles in the Hood Communist (https://hoodcommunist.org/?fbclid=IwAR3gnINVcNy2wJW_bUbNA9vmlv8G36JvjECuASVVV7V_jZp62p1UpSz5f0) and the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (https://aaprp-intl.org/) website online.

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