2023-06-29 00:53:25
The urgency of confronting cultural colonialism was the focus of a good part of the debates in the plenary session of the UNEAC National Council, during which writers and artists discussed culture as a transforming energy in the face of the global colonizing wave.
«What has made this people resist and defeat all the attempts to drown us by hunger and despair is the Cubanness in its rebellion, the emancipatory sense of our identity. That is why they attack our ethical and historical foundations,” warned Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, head of the Ideological Department of the Central Committee of the Party, who called for multiplying the meetings with the quality of critical thinking that distinguished the meeting.
The decolonizing battle is the main struggle of the Revolution today, he argued.
Polanco reflected on the sense of urgency that still needs to be impregnated in the collective conscience in the face of this external and internal cultural colonization that tries to corrode our founding values, as a hegemonic design to break the national will and present Cuba as unviable.
“Therefore, the battle belongs to the whole of society, of all the revolutionary forces, of the institutional framework, with our intellectuals, artists and creators at the forefront.”
“Within cultural colonialism they are trying to distance the institutions, the Government, and as good Cubans we have to remain united, sowing ideas and conscience, because the greatest strength that the Cuban Revolution has had in all times is unity,” he asserted. .
He also talked about the need for proposals that transform the problems that remain over time and the new ones that arise, based on projects based on the same pillar of government that prioritizes science and innovation, and systems that evaluate their impact and relevance.
The urgency of articulating a policy that ponders the consumption of national music was also an approach heard during the plenary, as well as the need for artistic education in schools, and a critique that evaluates cultural processes and the promotion of reading, for being itself a tool against colonialist domination, it was also among the pronouncements heard during the session.
Likewise, they shared the plenary session with the artists, the Vice Prime Minister of the Republic, Inés María Chapman; the Minister of Culture; Alpidio Alonso Grau; the President of Casa de las Américas, Abel Prieto Jiménez and Luis Morlote Rivas, current president of UNEAC.
With information from Cubarte
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