How Cuban Socialism Survives Against the Empire Next Door, w/ Prof. Helen Yaffe
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- The U.S. government has tried to destabilize the tiny island nation of Cuba for 60 years all as punishment for Cuba daring to have a revolution and forge a path independent of U.S. capitalism. Yet Cuba has survived, and even thrived, most recently developing its own highly effective COVID vaccine while dispatching doctors around the world.
How did Cuba keep the revolution alive even as socialist projects in other Global South countries failed with the collapse of the Soviet Union? What was the role of individuals like Che Guevara in laying the foundation for all of this? What are Cuba’s greatest challenges today?
Rania Khalek is joined by Helen Yaffe, a lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Glasgow and author of “We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World.”
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0:00 Intro
1:53 What motivated Helen’s interest in Cuba?
8:24 Why was there a revolution in Cuba?
16:48 How the Cuban revolution became socialist
24:08 The importance of Che Guevara
43:46 How did Cuban socialism survive the Soviet collapse?
55:21 How has the blockade gotten worse?
1:05:17 The July 11 protests & US coordination
1:20:52 Keeping the revolution alive
1:34:31 Where to follow Helen’s work and how to help Cuba 
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I love that Rania doesn't interrupt her guests and allows them to actually give deep, meaningful answers. Some interviewers are too narcissistic to allow that.
Yes!!
@@mr.gadfly6249 So true!!
Yep! You see those kinds of interviewers in the US and the UK mainstream media a lot, such as Fox News, CNN and BBC, because sometimes they invite a guess that dares to tell the truth and say things that those mainstream media don’t want their guests to say.
Yes, Rania also asks really good questions!
Cuba deserves much admiration...mainly at keeping the big, relentless, thirsty/greedy U.S.A. at bay. I have such fond memories of Cuba...of people...humans who know how to laugh, play and DANCE! So difficult to drive past Guantanamo...such a horrible nightmare so arrogantly placed on the Cuban land.
Cuba need to re-possess Guantanamo from the imperialist USA.
I am an avid follower of BT news and I have to say that this was one of the best interviews/discussions I've heard on BT news or any other platform. Thank you Rania and Prof. Helen Yaffe. So glad to know that this particular academic is teaching in my home city, Glasgow.
Millions of people all over the world, including the majority of Americans have no idea what control America's Corporations with the help of the American government had on the entire economy of the Cuban people ! Listening to you both is a great education for all of us!! Thanks so much!
This and 80% of Rania’s Dispatches. She’s becoming the real gold standard on interviewing.
Fantabolous! Hats of to Raina and Helen!
Rania Khalek you are the best!
I can't thank you enough for all the information and encouragement you offered us.
Keep doing that amazing work!
Rania rocks!
Cuba life expectancy 78 years and rising
US life expectancy 77 years and falling
That's a kind of prosperity, some would say an important kind...
CIA’s failure is too numerous to count but the state media has always done a good job highlighting only its’ success.
Whatever success of CIA is all manufactured. The US govt is a disgrace to humanity.
Rania you are a true journalist. Thank you.
Journalism at it's Best. Break through is one of my favorite Media , it crosses Borders to serve the truth. 🙏
I read Helen's "We Are Cuba!" and it was very well done! Great discussion. Free Julian Assange and Leonard Peltier!
Free Mumia! Free Ruchell! Free Rashid Johnson!
@Miriam T. I enjoy trolls with weeks-old accounts flinging poop like coprophilic chimpanzees. It shows that Amerikkka doesn't like the message.
Free Edward Snowden! Free those Chinese professors and researchers that are being wrongly imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit!
This was so fantastic. All the information about Cuba from someone who has and still lives or visits Cuba on a regular basis is appreciated greatly. Thank you for this excellent discussion.
I do not have words to thank you two. What is really gratifying is that Helen Yaffe cements all my thinking on this subject. I have had good cuban friends, read much about Cuba, but there is much to learn from this video. I studied in Glasow but this is he best lesson from Glasgow!
Also highly recommend Helen's latest documentary on climate change and Cuba
What is it called?
@@Macred16 There is a channel called Dani films in youtube. They will release the film in their channel. The documentary is calle Cuba’s Life Task: Combating Climate Change. In the mean time you can check out the Cuba and Covid documentary which is there in the channel.
Solidarity forever
From a Syrian-American to Raina! Thank you for defending the socialist oriented states and Syria and Lebanin! You are a bueatiful soul, not just a pretty face!
hopefully the People's Republic of China will help Cuba to become prosperous
I love when she calls the corporate media in the US “government stenographers”.
Thank you Rhani and Helen for your wonderful work.
Learned a few more things about Cuba today, great work, as always.
Admired Cuba for 40 yrs, been there and found my admiration was correct.
VERY INFORMATIVE. SHE REALLY KNOWS HER STUFF
all countries must stand up against US imperial bullying
VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE Y SOCIALISTA !!!
Great interview, Rania. Helen might have mentioned (or did I miss it) that Che was a principal founder of Prensa Latina, creating a team of writers and journalists led by Jorge Masetti, and which included people like Gabriel García Márquez, Rodolfo Walsh, and Rogelio García Lupo.
Great work Prof. Yaffe at keeping an anchor of real research, more humans like you please! Great program. ¡QUE VIVA CUBA LIBRE DEL IMPERIALISMO!
The nation of Cuba deserves the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Nobel prize is not for peace, it is given to US president who killed millions of Muslims and others around the world. Cuba 🇨🇺, you don't want that fake prize.
Great work Rania and your guest is brilliant, thank you both.
Salute Cuba!
..............
"Death or Socialism"
Your message has gone global.
For all those agitating against imperialism
The "mantra" has been proved
You became a radiant beacon.
You became a radiant beacon
You are shouting against imperialism.
"Motherland or death."
Crossing the Gulf of Mexico, you climbed the "Granma."
Che and the other young fighters were Fidel in your squad
The mountain forest of Siyara Mystra was your battlefield
Defeating the machinations of the imperialists in a short time
The red flag was hoisted at the Cuban capital, Havana.
The Cuban people had gathered to celebrate the victory.
-Jaya Karki,
Kathmandu
Nepal.
Thank you, Rania . Another great interview; you are do a supernatural sky daddy's work.
Live long and prosper,
Bravo Cuba 🇨🇺
cuba is a global symbol of resistance! much love from ethiopia! #nomore!!
“You are the light of the world”!!
It was extremely well done …big respect
I've done medical tourism many times in Central and South America, and my doctors have almost exclusivelt beenCuba trained. They've always been smart, kind, proficient and knowledgeable of the medical state of the art, and GRATEFUL to the Cubam government for giving them an affordable way to follow their dreams. Contrast tbis with American doctors who come out horribly in debt and dependant on the for profit, money driven medical establishment. No absolutely vital human service like food, water and medicine should EVER be privatized. We have a lot to learn about socialism and how it raises the boats of the majority of working people.
The Cuban government and people are an inspiration to all countries fighting to fence off or shake off the authoritarian regime of the US that is trying to control and suppress the freedom and sovereignty of other countries. What the island nation of Cuba can do to maintain its independence and freedom of its people against the aggressive US regime mean that any country can do that as well. As long as local leaders cannot be corrupted by the US, it can be absolutely done.
""A PICTURE CAN SAY A THOUSAND WORDS" but Rania Khalek's words paint PICTURES never seen BEFORE!"
The Imperialist has countless military bases surrounding China and Russia and is trying to choke Iran with barbaric sanctions, I hope they will work together to help Cuba and maybe set up missile bases in Cuba like what the Imperialist is trying to do in Ukraine?
We will be hearing about Cuban-China relations in the coming years thats for sure, and theyll claims WMDs too, even though China is not about arming countries lol
Cuba is a shining example of great internationalism and shinning example of championing humanity as well as what can be done even when facing insurmountable odds. A lot of people in the US can learn a lot from Cuba and the Cuban people.
Fantastisk abauth Cuba and Che Guevara.
Thank you Rania and Helen.
This is journalism. MSM is a desert for journalism.
There are blackouts almost every day in Puerto Rico...a US colony
What better way to force Puerto Ricans from the island, to take slave-wage jobs in NYC or join the Imperial Forces...
@@jimbodriver1015 They can't bomb everyone if the solar was small scale, but because everything has to come through Gusano HQ, "cheap" is not on the table. You're right tho, in the sense that people must strive for self-sufficiency.
beautiful story, thank you!
Extremely important contribution
I really enjoyed this; how do I sign up for Helen Yaffe's Class?
This is most wonderful listening and getting informed every second indeed. The knowledge I'm going to have is real LIVING in especially having the Past, Present and Future.
this is so brilliant
Great video from Portugal
Great interview. I would've like to have heard Helen talk more about how the Cuban electoral system and constitution works though.
In Cuba, there's always been the question whether or not to annex to the United States or to remain a free and an independent nation. Annexation vs patriotism and independence 🙄😩⚔️⁉️🇺🇲 vs 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺
Long live Fidel & Che. They were ahead of the curve. Leave it to the revolutionary women to get it right.
Awesome show. Viva la Cuba.
thank you both. informative and inspiring. I hope Peru is reaching out to Cubans along with other resistance countries in Latin America. It looks pretty grim for them right now, fighting among the left and Castillo appears to be wavering.
THE TRUTH BEING TOLD....B1...FBA...BLACK NATIVE
...USA....GREAT SHOW. ❤❤❤❤
Cuba? Yay! Been there 6 times. First time after a hole in one on the 'hole in one' hole sponsored by a cigar company. Gleneagles course in Bolton Ontario for the ORA Children's Variety charity tournament.
i love Che…one day (soon) I’ll visit Cuba.
This was so nice. Thank you.
Perhaps people opposing hip hop music we're not so much afraid of it as they were annoyed. Auto-Tune, and the automated nature of it, combined with the angry yelling shouldn't be inflicted, like secondhand smoke, on bypassers and neighbors. Use headphones If you must.
Cuba should use Monero to circumvent USD sanctions
Viva Cuba
THE TRUTH BEING TOLD...B1...FBA...BLACK NATIVE...USA...❤❤❤❤❤
Just a note on the title: resilience could better be switched to resistence...Resilience is a category of liberism which means we the capitalists are stripping you of your wealth and wellbeing and you should not even complain and stand still bc is for a greater good (greater for us).
Would love to see a follow up video exploring Cuba’s “post-pandemic response” compared to the US’
I'm a leftist and support Cuba. Ive been there many times, have friends there with whom I still am in contact with regularly, as I am fluent in spanish. I have to add that we should not say that they are thriving..Surviving is the correct word, and I say we need to add the word, barely. These days they are suffering much. Shortages of everything. Even of bread. There aren't even eggs, much less meat. Power outages constantly, and all of the towns that aren't Havana have it even worse.
That was pretty damn good.
I remember Helen from the non stop picket outside South Africa House to free Mandela.
Cuba alwaysamazes me . If this small island country
So much pressure from western nations especially from American. African countries a lot to learn from Cuba.
I'm ashamed to say that I was one of the anti-Castro in Miami but I need to man-up and admit when I was wrong,(I'm not saying that I am pro-Castro) but I do support the lifting of the embargo. I was also wrong about a lot of Latin America ...so brace yourself my public I have a lot's of wrongs to undo....LoL
Thank you, Americans have been brainwashed for too long,it's time we all wake up to the lies! ❤
🇨🇺 *CUBA SI, CUBA SI, CUBA SI, YANQUI NO!!!!* 🇨🇺
I think Ronia and her show Dispatches is an extremely important for Leftists. But she and her guest completely do not understand the struggle between Stalinist Socialism in One Country and Trotskyist Permanent Revolution.
Stalinism is an entrenched bureaucracy that runs a state capitalist model. Which obviously becomes authoritarian to survive. There is also an entire history of Stalinist murdering any Socialist around the globe that did not follow it.
On the other hand Lenin used the Trotskyist idea of Permanent Revolution to push forward the Russian Revolution of 1917. This is because the problem with Russia was it's backwards economic situation. Under Permanent Revolution the revolution expands outside of it's boarders and as newer states become Socialist there is a transfer of technologies. Which help build the productive forces.
That is why, as stated in this interview, it was said that Che found discrepancies between what the Soviet economist was telling him and what he, Che, was reading in Marx's text. It's because Russia was not running it's economy under Marxist ideas... but under some type of state capitalist concept.
Both of them know much more than you. And they did a very good job here.
You are turning things completely on their head and mixing stuff up. You are wrong on all accounts. Every paragraph is so full of historical and ideological falsehoods and mistakes that it would take multible pages to correct them. And it will take you many books to read to unlearn them. I hope you pick up Marx, Engels, Lenin, Che and more to educate yourself.
The US propaganda that is mentioned in this video was swallowed by you hook, line and sinker.
I wish you the best and hope that you overcome that brainwashing!
You can´t be a Socialist and at the same time believe all of the anticommunist propaganda that is out there. Or you will hurt the movement and humn progress much more than you advance it.
Yes it's amazing how Afghanistan and Cuba withstand $atan's envy. AllahU Akbar
Good to know that Russia, China & Iran have now started to invest hugely in Cuba in 2023 despite the evil policies of the USA.
1:06:45 has anyone an idea who she is referring to???
Successful Communist China brings change and hope. African Ewe proverb. When the Mother is in the fruit tree the children will never starve.
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that sounds like current Afghanistan
Hey 💋Rania, your guest Prof. Helen Yaffe looks 👀more like a graduate student rather than a professor. 😆
THE INFORMATION WAS VERY RAMIFIES, GOOD ,THE ,TWO'S YOUNG MISS WAS ON TOPS OF THE CHARTS, GOOD,,
The thing is though that history *didn't* absolve him. No amount of scapegoating and whataboutism can erase the fact that the truly vast majority of Cubans struggle for their daily survival. Whatever the ultimate culprit if the regime is incapable of meeting their needs then by definition it is a failed state.
Wow :o
# say
no more
The American revolution against Britain came at a huge cost. No taxation without representation! From being a British colony to becoming a superpower... that's a huge accomplishment! The ups and downs of history!
US lost money in Cuba's revolution and will never forget or forgive. It's all about money.
My guess is she is a teacher. They talk forever with no questions.
Che was the executioner of those who opposed the communist regime of castro
"The economics of revolution" is a $150 book. What good is a book about revolution if only the bourgeois can afford it? 🤨
I don’t know. Alot of Cubans I know here, says it sucks ass over there. They only miss their families.
Go go BRICS + 6
Big Fat Daddy US is
Revolution may be crazy but necessary as the last resource. Change should be made for the better and not for the worst.,. usually it's for a better life and living conditions, isn't it? Well, look at what's going on today in Cuba after 60 years. Terrible 😔 economically, it's a disaster 😂 another revolution in the horizon is coming and badly needed.
As a Cuban, I invite you all to try to live here with the average wage, no family abroad that could help you with some money and living outside Havana City. That's the only way for you, dear foreigners, to realize the nature of the 11J protests. Like if everything was alright here for people not having any reasons for protesting 🙄. I consider myself a leftist individual, but this events and this kind of opinion just keeps me sad and explains how this dictatorship has survived for so long. Right now, there are 15 teenagers in prison just for protesting and/or recording the protests. Again, lets visit the real Cuba and then give your opinion. Cheers.
Don't give up the fight, if you truly think its bad, it will get exponentially worse if US gets involved. China is on the rise and is already starting to help Cuba grow. It'll happen soon, but give it time, hope is alive once again!
Dude, I have a wife with 2 kids, she works at Provincial Housing Direction and I am an IT, we have zero businesses, we don´t sell anything, we don´t have family abroad, we live only with our salaries, and we live well, she buys some of the stuff we need in tuenvio, and the other stuff we get is what they sell from the notebook, the service stores and private markets. I don´t know what you´re talking about. As I recall the protests were because of the blackouts, which have been solved and because the US was giving money to the protesters to do so, or is it that you are blind enough not to see their propaganda on facebook, I think I remember seen one that said they would give 100 dollars to anyone that would break a store´s window, and 200 to the one that destroyed a police car. The ones that are in jail it´s because of vandalism, if they are brave enough to destroy stuff, then they should be brave enough to assume the consequences. If you want to do a protest, don´t be stupid and give the police a reason to arrest you, protest peacefully and nothing should happen to you. Pfff. En español ahora, para que entiendas bien: Socio, yo tengo una esposa con 2 niños, ella trabaja en la dirección provincial de la vivienda y yo soy informático, no tenemos negocios, no vendemos nada, ni tenemos familia en el extranjero, vivimos de nuestros salarios, y vivimos bien, ella compra cosas en tuenvio y las otras cosas que buscamos son de la libreta, los servi, y los mercados de los particulares. No sé de qué estás hablando. Según recuerdo las protestas fueron por los apagones que ya están resueltos, y porque los yanquis estaban pagando para que los protestantes lo hicieran, o es que eres lo suficientemente ciego para no ver las propagandas de ellos en facebook, creo recordar ver uno que decía que le pagaban 100 dólares al que rompiera una ventana de una tienda, y 200 dólares al que destruyera un carro de policía. Los que están presos es por el vandalismo, sin tienen suficiente valor para destruir cosas, entonces tienen que tener suficiente valor para asumir las consecuencias. Si quieres protestar, no seas estúpido de darle una razón a la policía de arrestarte, protesta pacíficamente y nada debería pasarte. Pfff
@@age8428 bueno, será que yo soy un marciano. me alegra mucho, de corazón, que uds dos, puedan depender unicamente de sus salarios (supongo que tu tmb trabajes para el Estado, porque tengo amistades que son freelancers del sector informatico y cobran salarios buenos incluso frente a la media latinoamericana). Tambien habria que ver a que le llamas "vivir bien", creo que ese es un matiz que, si bien es extremadamente subjetivo, define el umbral entre la prosperidad y la pobreza. Sobre los apagones, si bien no es el mismo escenario que el verano pasado (estamos en "invierno") siempre han estado presente, y seran inevitables por el estado deplorable de la infraestructura energetica del pais. Yo vivo en Holguin ciudad y llevo 3 dias con apagones cortos, pero ya van aprox 10 veces que me cortan la corriente (y luego nadie paga por las roturas, o al menos es bastante raro). Y ojo, aun esta empezando el año, cuando apriete el calor empiezan las roturas. Y esto compañero, es una parte infima del asunto, que obviamente es politico. Yo si creo que es bastante probable que el 11J hubo gente que solo salió a vandalizar y/o robar (al Estado, que es propiedad socialista y que es quien "los oprime"?¡, en fin, que hay tela ahi). El gobierno continuamente intenta desacreditar al que disiente, y lleva años en una politica de contencion del descontento, "armados" solamente con la excusa del embargo/bloqueo (que si afecta, pero les funciona tmb a la clase dirigente que son los que menos lo sufren, si es que les afecta del todo). Lo que acontecido desde el MSI, todas las detenciones ilegales, los juicios, los exiliados, etc, todo eso esta mermando el ya agotado capital politico de la clase dirigente del pais. Saludos
@@pepeborrego8006 Si, yo también trabajo con el estado, le llamo vivir bien a no pasar trabajo ni con la comida ni con el dinero, no ser rico, pero no ser pobre. No se qué problema habrá en Holguín, pero donde vivo no se va la corriente desde hace varios meses, y si, si se te rompe algún equipo producto a un apagón, puedes hacerle una demanda a la empresa eléctrica y si en realidad se rompió por eso, ellos te lo reponen o te dan el dinero, conozco personas a los que les ha pasado. Tu dices que el estado oprime, y estoy seguro que como tu hay muchos que piensan lo mismo, si es así, tenían que haber votado en contra de la constitución que es la que plasma que el estado cubano es socialista, si votaron en contra y de todas formas se aprobó la constitución, quiere decir que no eran suficientes, por lo tanto, la inmensa mayoría quiere ser socialista. Dices que los metieron presos por vandalizar y/o robar propiedad del estado, si, tienes razón, pero prueba vandalizar y/o robar propiedad particular para que veas que te pasa, jajaja. No voy a tratar de convencerte en lo del bloqueo porque si no te has convencido con las pruebas y evidencias que aparecen a diario en nuestras vidas, yo no te voy a convencer, y te digo, desde mi punto de vista que el bloqueo si existe y afecta: en mi computadora personal tengo una tarjeta gráfica nvidia que le encargué a uno que viaja al extranjero, la compró y me la vendió aquí un poco más cara, o sea, que yo pagué por el producto, por lo tanto es mío y tengo derecho a soporte técnico, tengo internet en el teléfono por datos móviles, y quiero descargar los últimos driver, para hacer esto, tengo que buscar en sitios de terceros porque el sitio oficial de nvidia me dice que mi país está en una lista negra y que desde aquí no lo puedo descargar, si uso una VPN, si puedo descargar dichos drivers porque la VPN engaña al sitio de nvidia y le hace pensar que estoy entrando desde otro país. Eso es desde mi punto de vista en el tema del soporte técnico por el que no se muere nadie, hay muchos otros temas y muchas otras esferas donde nos afecta el bloqueo, incluyendo la electricidad, la importación de alimentos, y la medicina donde si peligra la vida de las personas producto al bloqueo. Pero, para no explotarte tu burbuja, te aconsejo que no me hagas caso y sigas echándole la culpa al gobierno, otra cosa que puedes hacer es irte para el norte a perseguir el sueño americano(mucho cuidado, no todos lo encuentran y después están llorando por regresar avergonzados), porque socialismo aquí hay para rato.
@@age8428 Bueno, ya habiamos tardado con las presunciones. Esta vez no me voy a extender, porque me parece que sera esteril la discusion si empiezas por dudar de la realidad -la mía, fijate que yo no dude de tu buena fortuna- que cuento aqui y que puedo verla a diario, pero OK, no somos iguales mas alla de haber nacido aqui. Me dices algo sobre haber votado en contra de la constitucion por poner que era socialista (yo me considero un socialista, pero ni esto lo es, y aunque lo fuese tampoco significa que tenga que mirar a otro lado con los totalitarismos) por la cual vote en contra y no precisamente por esa clausula. Y por cierto, caer en la misma falacia de creer que todo el mundo se quiere ir, o se quiere ir precisamente para los EEUU, es realmente lamentable. Es tu pais y el mio, ni más, ni menos. Salud y suerte, que tengas una buena vida, compañero!
Lol
They survived not sure they thrived
If you are American you don't what is truly important to thrive because you are just interested in convenience!!!
As, a person that still has family stuck in Cuba, this is just repulsing. Want to know why Cuba looks like it is stuck in a time capsule? It is ! Thats when Cuba stopped progressing. Americans are so naive.
Cuba should use AI hosts like China.
So we are now glorifying a monster in history?
Look at his role in the establishment of labour camps, the execution of political prisoners without trial, and the suppression of dissent in post-revolutionary Cuba. His ideological commitment to revolutionary struggle led to armed conflicts in various countries, contributing to instability and violence. While revered by some as a symbol of anti-imperialism and social justice, Guevara remains a divisive figure, criticized for actions considered authoritarian and in violation of human rights.
It's so sad we are trying to find the positives in a person and system that caused so much human mystery that people have been fleeing for generations.
I CAN SEE THAT YOU MUSSLE THEBCOMMENTS YOU DONT LIKE THE TRUTH HURTS !!!!!
This is among the best socialist RUclipsrs I always watch. Is Helen the daughter - or related to- David Yaffe? He took me to Paul Matick and I published a book 45 yrs sgo {I'm 76 now) about Marx. Mattick and capital accumulation annexing a traduction of Yaffe's great note.
Never Fidel Lives on Forever
👌😂💕👏🇨🇺Que viva Fidel Castro🇨🇺👏💕🤣👌