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imperialist war, overt and covert, which impedes revolutionary progress.
International support for Cuba’s right to sovereignty and self-determination will allow
the island’s population to spend more time, energy and resources on socialist construction,
rather than on defense.
It is the LGBT movements in the imperialist citadels that have to break with their
own ruling classes in order to build bonds of genuine international solidarity. It’s a hard
position to take. It requires ideological valor; the refusal to remain silent about the emperor’s
“new” clothing.
The Cuban Revolution has had to take up the tasks that history presented it, including
the eventual eradication of the legacies of racism, sexism and anti-gay bigotry.
In order to move forward toward their own liberation, the LGBT and other progressive
movements in the U.S. and other capitalist countries have to combat anti-communism—which
is, in the long run, a loyalty oath to capitalism—and develop a powerful
anti-imperialist current that can extend its solidarity to Cuba and all countries fighting
for their sovereignty and self-determination against finance capital.
Revolutionary Cuba—the “hope of the hemisphere”—has done a better job dealing
with its tasks.
92 Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba