Étiquette : Repression

Cuba since COVID: Communist Party represses social unrest | Boris Milián Díaz – June 2024

Since 2020, there’s been more than 900 people jailed for various acts of dissent. The peak was reached during the demonstrations of July 11th 2021 when the Cuban State shut the door to any possible dialogue between the common people and the rulers. Many intellectuals found this to be a turning point. Mechanisms of social pressure must be used to generate transformations”.

A new rupture in Spanish anarcho-syndicalism

CNT-CIT, which registered the CNT acronym as a trademark (hence the ©), is engaged in a legal battle of rare violence against CNT-AIT. At the time of writing, the CNT© is taking eighteen CNT-AIT unions to court, claiming damages of 50,000 euros each for the use of the CNT acronym; the premises and other resources of these unions could be seized (even if they change their name) as « property » of the CNT; several CNT-AIT members could be imprisoned as a result of these lawsuits.