Thursday, 6 May 2010
MAYDAY
May Day has proven the popularity of the working class morals all over the world. A rally made up of working class, union members and mainly lefties, supports the socialist ideals that created May Day which takes place on the first of May every year and in many countries is a public holiday. May Day heightens the awareness of the labour sector and the large crowds that gather show the importance and reality that other forms of government alternative to liberal democracy need consideration. The support in Cuba this year has only further outlined the countries support for its communist regime even amid the international criticism over human rights. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched the streets of Havana to show support for their country and political regime with many marches dis crying the United States and European Union. Click on the link to check out the 3 news report on mayday.
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AndyD, I don't think conclusions can be drawn about Cuba from participation in May Day rallies. Participation is basically mandatory, and you may get in trouble with your neighborhood committee if you don't go. The same phenomenon can be seen in many communist countries until almost the day they collapsed; every year there would be a huge May Day parade, but in fact people basically hated their government (a fact that became fully clear only after the regimes collapsed).
ReplyDeleteThis is related to the ideas of ideological control we discussed when we talked about totalitarianism. (Not tat the Cuban regime is totalitarian, necessarily, but they do try to enforce ideological conformity in not very subtle ways).