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Encyclopedia > Cuban Libertarian Movement

The Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC), (Movimiento Libertario Cubano) is a network of cuban anarchists living in exile abroad and in Cuba, including collectives and individuals. The organization(s) take a consistent anti-capitalist and anti-Castro position, denouncing both Fidel Castro's regime and U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba while encouraging anarchist, libertarian communist and libertarian socialist resistance in both countries and abroad. This article or section may contain inappropriate or misinterpreted citations. ... Anti-capitalism is any and all opposition to capitalism. ... Or Opposition to a Participatory Democracy (of Only Party) created by the Popular Socialist Revolution, named The Cuban Revolution The Opposition to Fidel Castros Cuban government is largely unofficial and illegal within Cuba due to the political system led by Fidel Castro being a one party state. ... For more information on this current event, see 2006 Cuban transfer of presidential duties. ... Cuba and the United States of America have had a mutual interest in one another since well before either of their independence movements. ... Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. ... Anarchist Communism, also known as Anarcho-Communism, Communo-Anarchism or Libertarian Communism, is a political ideology related to Libertarian socialism. ... Libertarian socialism is a political philosophy dedicated to opposing coercive forms of authority and social hierarchy, in particular the institutions of capitalism and the state. ...


The word "libertarian" is a reference to libertarian socialism rather than economic libertarianism. Libertarian socialism is any one of a group of political philosophies dedicated to the abolition of property by restoring direct control of production and resources to the working class. ... Economic libertarianism is the doctrine that government should not engage in economic interventionism, but only prohibit force and fraud. ...


People

  • Frank Fernández
  • Cuban Anarchists

Frank Fernández is a Cuban anarchist author. ...

Periodicals

  • Guángara Libertaria

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News from Cuba (1659 words)
The motives behind that initiative were: the escalation of the crackdown on dissent and the emergence of libertarians and trade unionists ready to struggle for a trade union alternative independent of the Castro regime or whatever may come after it.
The Cuban Libertarian Movement, consistent and coherent with its ideals of libertarian socialism, social justice, self-management, class organization, autonomous municipality, individual and collective freedom for the Cuban people, is once again confronting Castro's fascist totalitarianism.
We live in times of resurgence of the libertarian ideal, where the growth of the international protest movement is evident; today, more than ever, we glimpse the dawn of freedom and we deem it necessary to fight against Cuba's totalitarian despotism, with our comrades in the island as well as with anarchists throughout the world.
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