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ZANU-PF and the Communist Party of Cuba have resolved to maintain national institutions that resist all efforts to subjugate the two countries to neo-colonial policies.In a statement after his visit to Cuba from September 22-30, Zanu-PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo said the two parties discussed the unfairness of international lending institutions.
He said his delegation also met the Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and discussed among other things unilateralism and the silent tightening of economic embargos against Cuba and Zimbabwe through the world’s financial systems.
“We focused our discussions on the very delicate global political situation which is characterised by unilateral action, unwinnable wars, illegal sanctions and general disregard of international law and natural justice,” said Cde Khaya Moyo.
“We condemned the war mongers and resolved to maintain our party and national institutions to resist all efforts to subjugate us to neo-colonial policies. We had discussions on the unfairness of international lending institutions, in particular the reforms that demand deviation from socialist principles and external debt ratio to gross domestic product (GDP) requirements.”
He said Cuba’s Young Communist League extended an invitation to Zanu-PF Youth League to their 10th Congress next year and to an international event for the release of the Cuban 5, incarcerated in the USA.
During the visit, Cde Khaya Moyo delivered a lecture at the High Institute of International Relations titled “Cuba and Zimbabwe — A case of revolutionary twins”.
Cde Khaya Moyo said they visited the Pinar del Rio province focusing on food and economic security through primary production that feeds the processing factories of Cuba.
“We were extremely proud of the work of the party and the people of Pinar del Rio in establishing and maintaining an economy that looks like what we envisage after the implementation of our own economic blueprint Zim-Asset,” said Cde Khaya Moyo.
Cde Khaya Moyo said they met and warned the Cuban Central Trade Union about the vulnerability of workers’ movements across the world, a spring board to launch puppet political parties by counter-revolutionaries and reactionaries under the guise of progressive discussions.
He urged Cuban workers to remain vigilant, concentrate on workers’ issues and detect any puppet masters, especially from the United States and Britain, famous for infiltrating trade unions.
“Our experience on the corruption of the trade union movements to form the MDC was highlighted as was our decisive victory and rubbishing of the unworkable Government of National Unity,” he said.
Cde Khaya Moyo said they were impressed by 48 percent representation for women at the People’s Power National Assembly achieved without a quota.
“At the Cuban Political Bureau, the equivalent of the Politburo in Zanu-PF, the two sister parties exchanged the latest developments on strategy and direction,” said Cde Khaya Moyo.
“We’ll be watching these developments with interest since many of the resolutions could find some use in our own system. We shared the Zim-Asset economic blueprint and we’ll no doubt have some inputs when we meet the Cuban Communist Party at our elective congress in December.”
Cde Khaya Moyo was accompanied by Zanu-PF Women’s League commissar and Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Dr Olivia Muchena and principal director in the office of the senior minister Dr Gatsha Mazithulela.
Sidumisile Mabena