In the wake of his recent humanitarian visit to Cuba, RICHARD BURGON points to the now urgent need to defend the island’s political sovereignty and its right to self-determination
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What does the new Cuban constitution mean for the island nation and its revolution?
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ON June 2 this year, an extraordinary session of Cuba’s National Assembly (its parliament), created a commission to draw up an initial draft of a new constitution for the island nation which for 60 years has defied US efforts to end its revolution.
The commission, made up of 33 deputies of the National Assembly and headed by Raul Castro, has drawn on work that has been ongoing for many years and has taken into account previous experience within Cuba, as well as the constitutions from other Latin American, Asian, European and African states.
Homero Acosta, secretary of the Council of State and a member of the Constitutional Commission, told the National Assembly last Saturday that the proposed draft represented a total reform of the current constitution, which was adopted in 1976 and amended in 1992 and 2002.
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