CHE GUEVARA'S DAUGHTER, IN CORK!, TONIGHT!!

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Friday March 15, 2002 16:10

by Michael Ronan O'Connell - Swp, Drop the Debt, Globalise Resistance

michaeloconnell2001 at yahoo dot com

AND ALL AROUND IRELAND THIS WEEK!!

Che Guevara (1928-1967) is a world wide revolutionary legend and idol, whom has had a profound influence on the world. He lived and gave up his very life in the stuggle against "the pantomime of parliamentary democracy, and in hatred of military politicians and the army, the capitalist oligarchy, and above all the US dollar/ imperialism." This week offers people living in Ireland a unique and probably once only opportunity to hear his daughter speak.

The Cuban Revolution: Standing the Test of Time

SPEAKERS

Dr Aleida Guevara (daughter of Ché Guevara)
Sergio Corrieri (Cuban Parliamentarian)

Edmund Burke Hall
Trinity College
Tuesday 19 March @ 8 pm

Contact: Cuba Support Group (01) 8436448 or 087-6785842

Other Venues:

Waterford
Auditorium
Waterford Institute of Technology
Thursday 14 March @ 8pm
Contact: 086 2416581

Cork
Jury’s Hotel
Western Road
Friday 15 March @ 8pm
Contact: (021) 4323197

Galway
Town Hall Theatre
Wednesday 20 March @ 9.30pm

Belfast
St Mary’s University College
191 Falls Road
Thursday 21 March @ 7.30pm
Contact: (048) 90241879

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related links:
Irish Cuban Solidarity Site
homepage.tinet.ie/~csg/

www.cheguevara.com (email: che@cheguevara.com)
www.che-lives.com

www.swp.ie
www.globaliseresistance.cjb.net
www.debtireland.org/

Che Guevara (1928-1967)

Che Guevara is a world wide revolutionary legend and idol.

His early influences included Marx, Engels, Freud, the Spanish Civil War and the political crises in Argentina.

These events and influences inculcated in the young Guevara a contempt for the pantomime of parliamentary democracy, and a hatred of military politicians and the army, the capitalist oligarchy, and above all the US dollar/ imperialism.

Having qualified as a doctor in his home country of Argentina he embarked upon a revolutionary mission which was to have a huge influence on the world both in his own life-time and very much today, in fact his influence is growing by the day.

He’s best known as the guerilla revolutionary who joined Fidel Castro in overthrowing Cuba’s repressive Batista regime in 1959. His amazing life story which involved him in many South and Latin American and African countries culminated in his inevitable execution deep in Bolivia by Bolivian soldiers shortly after 1.10pm on October 9, 1967.

Because of his wild, romantic appearance, his dashing style, his intransigence in refusing to kowtow to any kind of establishment, however communist, his contempt for mere reformism, and his dedication to violent, flamboyant action, Che became a legend and an idol for the revolutionary- and even the merely discontented- youth of the later 1960s and early 70's a focus for the kind of desperate revolutionary action which seemed to millions of young people the only hope of destroying the world of bourgeois industrial capitalism and communism.

(Most of the above is taken from “A Dictionary of Modern Revolution by Edward Hyams – see also http://www.che-lives.com/

This same bourgeois establishment is destroying and killing the world today and in particular the most vulnerable citizens of the planet that we all live in and share. Guevara’s spirit cries out for those of good mindedness to rise up, and stop being self-absorbed, puppets of “the system” and imposed upon “established world order” and to do something about it, both for oneself and in particular for those millions and billions of people whose lives are being devastated, destroyed and ended by this system.