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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7I love these quiz questions. Here's my go at some answers:
* What should socialists do and how should they
organise today?
I know this one. Join the SWP and they should organise like the SWP.
* Did Che's emphasis on building a small, dedicated band of guerrillas to make
a revolution work?
Hmmm, this is a tricky one. Yes in Cuba, but only because of special circumstances, anywhere else he would have needed to build a mass movement of the working class, which is of course best achieved by joining the SWP.
* Can a socialist revolution be organised by a minority or do we need a mass movement?
I'll go for answer b on this one bob.
* Can we today describe Cuba as socialist - a country where corruption, prostitution and poverty once again haunt the streets of Havana?
I think the question is a bit easy - you're giving the game away a bit I think. Anyway, no!
* and crucially what can his ideas teach us in the struggle against the system today?
Emm, that we should join the SWP?
Che Guevera and Ireland
- by Mireya Castañeda, Granma International staff writer)
http://irelandsown.net/Che.html
Few people are aware that Ernesto Che Guevara was in Dublin in 1964. The landmarks of that year are his speech at the United Nations in New York and his journey to Algiers for the Tricontinental Conference.
[....]
The brief letter, dated December 18, 1964, reads:
Dear Dad:
With the anchor dropped and the boat at a standstill, I am in this green Ireland of your ancestors. When they found out, the [Irish] television came to ask me about the Lynch genealogy, but in case they were horse thieves or something like that I didn't say much.
Happy holidays,
We're waiting for you
Ernesto
An unpublished letter of Che's from his Dublin visit has been discovered in the Havana archives:
"Papa,
In Dublin I have grown to realise the rotten nature of petit-bourgeois nationalism. I foresee a time when the sectarian SF/IRA will move decisively to the right and go into coalition with Fianna Fáil. They will also betray the bin charges campaign when the workers and youth of Fingal move into struggle. The only hope then will be for the emergence of a mass party of the working class led by people like Kevin McLaughlin who is a brilliant and decisive leader of a Marxist creche in Artane. I weep tears of joy for the future.
! Ten, One Hundred, One Thousand Mullhuddarts!
PS. The SWP are centrist charlatans
Ya but in reality he was a tyrant. This is from the Guardian.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1169022/posts
Anybody who was there able to mark my answers?
Badman
In answer to one of your questions:
Yes,a small band of dedicated guerillas can lead a successful revolution (see Ireland 1916).
But it won't lead to Socialism
We all know that Castro had no interest in Socialism in 1959.
He still doesn't.
Instead he took sides during the Cold War and that is a very different thing. Wouldn't you agree?
Che didn't try to build a party he took a short-cut. And the point is that we can all learn from these lessons today.
Regards
I'd like to go to the adjudicator on this one.
In "Ireland 1916" there was not a revolution. By the time the war of independence came, which was hardly a revolution, they were all hanging out with st peter in the fluffy neverafter and not in any position to lead a revolution.
I bet i got them all right!!! Doubleplusgood!!!