READING CUBAN LITERATURE A CRIME IN JAMAICA from Right to Work{ Jamaica)
On Monday, October 26, the Daily Gleaner published that sixteen Cuban publications are added to the list of prohibited literature; citizens found reading or having any of these publications in their possession will be faced with a penalty of £50 fine or six months imprisonment; and for ; importing, distributing or republishing, a fine of £100 or one-year aE ment. Over the years the JLP-PNP (Jamaica Labour Party and the People iS) National Party) administration have acted as willing servants of British and United States imperialism, suppressing the right of the Jamaican people to read of the politics and history of struggle of the liberated peoples and of the current liberation struggle waged by oppressed peoples the world over.
They know that if our people, particulrly our youth, are taught of the revolutionary struggle and of the courage of the victorious people, we too will be courageous and wage revolutionary struggle against their treacherous rule and for our om liberation from imperialist enslavement. That is why they have placed a ban on such literature and are flooding the country with comic books and other obscene magazines and films which depict crime and sex and the degenante.culture of the imperialist nations to corrupt our people and divert them from the path of struggle. The recent ban imposed upon Cuban publications is obviously directed by United States imperialism in keeping with its policy of bullying small and weaker nations to sever ties with the Cuban people in the vain hope of isolating the Cuban Revolution.
No appeal will therefore halt the reactionary JLP-PNP administration in their service to imperinlism; they will continue in their suppression of the freedom and rights of the Jamaican people until they are crushed by the people. The Jamaican people must therefore wage resolute struggle in defence of their freedom and rights. We must demand our right to read of the struggle and history of our brothers throughout the world, for our struggle is against one enemy - imperialism - headed by United States imperialism, and together.we will win. The Cuban Kevolution is a component of the world liberation struggle; the Jamaican people must therefore struggle in its defence, heightening our °wn struggle against imperialism and the treacherous JLP-PNP clique.