Cuba, Contribution to the pre-congress debate from the Tlal by Committee of Correspondence for first congress FACC (ca)

Cuba, Contribution to the pre-congress debate from the Tlal
by Committee of Correspondence for first congress FACC (ca)
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From Workshop Libertarian Alfredo Lopez - On her current anarchist movement in Cuba - 
"unexpected associations ..." or the Libertarian Workshop Alfredo L?pez ---- On April 25, 
2010 there was the first activity that would lead to the emergence of Libertarian Workshop 
Alfredo L?pez. A meeting that was organized to commemorate the anarchist roots of 1 May 
and early contribution of the anarchists in Cuba this commemoration, being of the first 
places in America where a tribute was organized to colleagues killed in Chicago. ---- That 
meeting of 2010 also did the preliminary coordination for intervention as an autonomous 
group in the official celebration organized by the Cuban state. Of that activity and some 
photos taken in it, has fueled much of the iconography of our site:
observatoriocriticocuba.org .

We were moving towards the regeneration of what had been the Cuban libertarian movement, 
carrying half a century of absence in this country, after the powerful hegemony that the 
July 26 Movement and the Cuban Stalinists in control minds labored, spaces and intimate 
lives of several generations of Cubans.

In 1960 the last statement of the Trade Association of Cuba, who published a text that was 
a clarion where would the revolution took place. In January the following year the last 
great libertarian lunch organized by the Culinary Union took place at its headquarters. A 
month later it was closed. Great historical and great daily pleasure responsibility has 
meant to us in these five years be protagonists of this fact the small group of 
companions, we launched into this outdated madness in which we lived, word for word, the 
same spiritual state which led to Gustav Landauer, a hundred years before and thousands of 
miles, to write that words:

"Revolution is a microcosm, is an amazingly short time with an extraordinary 
concentration, when it is come true the world as possible, as a candle, sends its signals 
over time. In the revolution everything happens quickly amazing, as in dreams, which seem 
released from the Earth's gravity, to establish unexpected even for the dreamer associations."

These "unexpected associations" have led us to redo a small new map of people, places, 
energy, emotions, desires, that have enabled us to installing the world we want, here and 
now, where some, full of honesty and disenchantment, said it was not worth it, and others 
installed in the established rationality, said it was impossible. And is that dreams have 
allowed us to be more awake and watch our time, not as an empty run fleeting minutes, but 
as a boreal station latent fecundity, eager to be on time for each invitation, to every 
encounter.

The workshop Libertarian Alfredo Lopez was born from that desire to poetic militancy and 
recall of an individual whose life could not enjoy those privileges soul now named. 
Alfredo Lopez, son without a father, mother sick of misery, became himself a typographer 
and good man with telluric energy assuming the ideal libertarian union, it became a way of 
life. He was killed with less than 30 years, on the afternoon of July 20, 1926, with the 
intended blow a huge stone on the head, near which he was buried, to inoculate the 
necessary terror wage slaves who swarmed in absentia by the burgeoning Havana at that time.

His name and his aura of martyrdom have been looted by local businesses and Stalinists to 
dignify economic modernization efforts of the Cuban state capitalism, which have been so 
oppressive as those which once met Alfredo. One of the largest polygraphic industrial 
centers built by the Cuban State by 70, to control and prevent the movement of libertarian 
ideas and any body of ideas that did not have its stamp of control, was named "Combined 
Poligr?fico Alfredo L?pez" .

Such inconsistency and moral breakdown should be answered. And there we are. The 
Libertarian Workshop Alfredo L?pez has been the endeavor of the few anarchists who inhabit 
Havana, because it is a specifically anarchist space, after giving life to the plural 
Critical Observatory Network. It has been a meeting point for dialogue, mutual learning, 
production of knowledge, rescue popular historical memories and forgotten names and 
coordination of public actions, which came to condense most visibly in the Days Spring 
Libertarian of Havana in fraternal collaboration with the animators of Christ the Savior Area.

The Workshop has promoted actions with community impact in the Cuban capital, especially 
focused on the recovery of the local historical memory; addition to discussions on various 
topics such as the student movement in Chile and 15-M in Spain, unemployment in Cuba, the 
slaughter of Tiananmen in China, pathologizing delivery in health institutions, life and 
work of anarchist Frank Fern?ndez The Spanish revolution, the situation in Greece and 
Venezuela, among others.

Due to the interruption of libertarian explicit activity in 50 years in Cuba and the low 
level of anti-authoritarian social unrest and even less anticapitalist in Cuban society, 
hitherto we had need to define anarchist tendencies in our context; although we must say 
that the initial projection of anarcho-syndicalist, shaded invoking Alfredo Lopez has not 
had a particular development beyond spice up the anarchist perspective without adjectives, 
which has taken shape discreetly, and we have I moved closer without nombrarlo- to 
projections by the end of the nineteenth century developed a Spanish-Cuban anarchist as 
Fernando Marble T?rrida.

Riddled with inefficiencies, inadequacies, surrounded by the tyranny of apathy and 
nonsense, which also permeates our bodies carry with us a deposit of projects is always 
someone in the group is responsible for removing them and turn them into embarrassment the 
fact not them. Determined to grow and contaminate the greatest number of patients 
authority, here we are, making bridges, overcoming dissociation, to advance, free of 
Earth's gravity, our dreams, which have been the dreams of many others in this same land: 
Enrique Roig Enrique Crecci, Abelardo Saavedra, Adrian del Valle, Antonio Penichet, Rafael 
Serra, Marcelo Salinas, Abelardo Iglesias, Zulia Linsua?n, Casto Moscow Bretau Francisco, 
Luis Dulzaides, Frank Fernandez and many other colleagues who from the other side of 
reality We look accomplices and hopeful that his weary labors reborn in our bodies.

Havana, January 2015 - Committee of Correspondence for first congress FACC- (from Dominican)

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