Endorsement of the International Appeal for Release of Frank Garcia Hernandez and His Comrades

[Sukla Sen]

Hi,

I do endorse the following appeal.

Sukla Sen 

Peace Activist 

Mumbai, India

Please read & consider signing this international appeal -- send your endorsement to: cubacommunistsolidarity at end of this statement.

RELEASE FRANK GARCÍA HERNÁNDEZ AND HIS COMRADES

For years, indeed decades, we have denounced the blockade imposed by the US authorities against Cuba. We have denounced and continue to denounce the various policies and measures adopted by Washington since 1959-1960 to isolate, destabilise and attack Cuba. We are anti-imperialists and convinced internationalists. 

We were therefore very concerned to learn of the arrest during a march of protest in Havana on 11 July of Frank Garcia Hernandez, Cuban historian and Marxist, Leonardo Romero Negrín, young socialist studying physics at the University of Havana, Maykel González Vivero, director of Tremenda Nota and Marcos Antonio Pérez Fernández, pre-university student. Frank Garcia Hernandez is an important scholar has achieved a worldwide reputation for his work on reevaluating the history of the Cuban left and organising an international congress on Trotsky in Havana in 2019.

We call for the unconditional release of Frank and all his comrades and for respect for the democratic rights of all the Cuban people.

As the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg stated in 1918:

‘without a free and untrammeled press, without the unlimited right of association and assemblage, the rule of the broad masses of the people is entirely unthinkable.”’

She added:

‘Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party — however numerous they may be — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of “justice” but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when “freedom” becomes a special privilege.’

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