As the PM begin her speech...
"Protect Article 9 ( Constitution of Japan)!"
"Apologize to 240,000 people (died in the Battle)!"
The crowd erupted in cheers and loud applause.
This is the rightful and proper welcome a militarist should receive on Okinawa’s Memorial Day.
Ramiro Valdés, Hero of the Cuban Revolution has died at 94.
At age 21, he was among the youngest who attacked Moncada, first through the door, some say. He was captured, but he did not break. In prison on the Isle of Youth, when Batista, the US-sponsored dictator, came to visit, Valdés and his cellmates drowned out the dictator's presence with the July 26th anthem, sung at full voice, from behind bars.
He followed Fidel into exile in Mexico and then the Granma expedition. Then the war for national liberation in the Sierra Maestra and the plains. In Las Villas, he served as Che Guevara's second in command, through the push that broke the dictatorship in the Battle of Santa Clara.
What came after the triumph in 1959 was less visible but no less demanding. He took on tasks across the revolution's life, military, administrative, organizational and he carried them out with a quiet meticulousness that asked for no applause. He was not a man of grand speeches; he was a loyal cadre who did his work.
That work spanned six decades. That work outlasts him. He did not seek to be remembered. But he will be and his example will inspire a new generation of revolutionaries in Cuba and across the world.
"Ya desde hoy los obreros deberían proceder a elegir amplias asambleas de delegados, seleccionados entre los compañeros mejores y más conscientes, en torno a la consigna: «Todo el poder de la fábrica, a los comités de fábrica», coordinada con esta otra:
German Communist leader and theorist of women's liberation and fascism, Clara Zetkin died in the USSR on June 20, 1933 months after fleeing the Nazis. She had joined the German Social Democratic Party as a young woman, and was a member of its revolutionary wing. #OTD#Germany
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