Revolutionary Cultures is a series of programmes devoted to anti-imperialist movements, ideas and practices.
Revolutionary Cultures: EPISODE 1
Cuban Internationalism
This episode of REVOLUTIONARY CULTURES focuses on Cuban internationalism, particularly its medical internationalism and the Henry Reeve brigades. The discussion features Dra. Michele Santana, currently Deputy Director of the Central Medical Collaboration Unit who has also served Cuba’s missions in Africa, and also Dr. Rubén Martinez Artiles, a clinical physician who was part of the Henry Reeve brigade that led the response to the COVID-19 emergency in Italy. We are also joined by His Excellency Hugo Ramos, Cuba’s Ambassador to Ireland. The programme discusses the long history of Cuba’s revolutionary humanitarianism and the more recent valiant efforts of Cuban medics in battling the COVID-19 pandemic across the world. The discussion also address the effects of the illegal US blockade of Cuba and its people, as well the campaign against it and the ways in which the people of the world can reciprocate the unparalleled solidarity shown to humanity by Cuban revolutionaries. Despite the imperialist blockade, Cuba’s incredible revolutionary commitment has ensured that, as Noam Chomsky has said, “Cuba is the only country to have shown genuine internationalism during this coronavirus crisis”. ¡Viva Cuba! ¡Viva la Revolución Cubana!
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Revolutionary Cultures: EPISODE 2
Planetary Anti-Imperialism & Sandinista Internationalism
A lecture and Q&A with Dr Paul Oquist Kelly, author of Equilibra
- This episode features a lecture by Dr Paul Oquist Kelly and a Q&A about his book Equilibra. Dr Oquist’s wonderful book critiques the core alienations by which capitalism impedes our consciousness of climate catastrophe and the full spectrum dominance sought by US imperialism in maintaining that capitalist world order. However, in keeping with Sandinista internationalism, Dr Oquist’s project is also a participatory call to mass mobilisation and action and a vision of alternative, anti-imperialist modes of thought and consciousness.
- PART 1: CAPITALISM & THE 9 ALIENATIONS
- PART 2: FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE: THE ROLE OF IMPERIALISM
- PART 3: CLIMATE CATASTROPHIE: MASS MOVEMENTS, CHANGE & REVOLUTION
- PART 4: BEING A SANDINISTA: NICARAGUA, ANTI-IMPERIALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM IN MEMORIAM DR PAUL OQUIST, LA LUCHA SIGUE
‘EQUILIBRA IS AN OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, IMAGINATIVE AND SOCIAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO US IN THE FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALISM AND CAPITALISM. ITS SHINING BRILLIANCE ILLUMINATES THE PATHWAYS THROUGH WHICH WE WILL PREVENT PLANETARY DISASTER AND CONSTRUCT A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE WORLD. PAUL’S LUMINOUS VISION BECKONS US WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF A BETTER WORLD AND IT IS OUR TASK TO JOIN TOGETHER AND TO FIGHT TO BRING INTO BEING THAT REDEEMED FUTURE IN WHICH PAUL’S LIVING LEGACY AWAITS US WITH HIS WARM EMBRACE.’
DR AARON KELLY, COORDINATOR OF THE IRISH CHAPTER OF REDH
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REVOLUTIONARY CULTURES: EPISODE 3
CUBA: The Blockade, Democracy and Human Rights
An Interview with His Excellency, Hugo Ramos
Cuban Ambassador to Ireland
In this episode Hugo Ramos, Cuban Ambassador to Ireland, talks with Aaron Kelly about the criminal blockade imposed on Cuba by the US, about grassroots and participatory democracy on the island, about how the people shape the constitution and the defence of the Revolution, and Hugo offers some personal reflections on Fidel’s influence and legacy, and the revolutionary path that continues in Cuba and which continues to inspire others around the world.
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