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Socialism Is Our Only Guarantee for Freedom and Independence.

CUBA, 20th, December 2010.- “Socialism is our only guarantee for freedom and independence,” said Cuba President Raul Castro during the closing of the sixth period of sessions of the Seventh Legislature of the Cuban National Assembly.

In a two-hour address that sets up the framework for the government’s future development, Raul Castro clearly set out the course for revolutionaries at all levels, without a hint of paternalism or leniency in regards to things poorly done or mistakes, no matter who is at fault, and remaining faithful to the principle expressed to the Cuban Parliament a year earlier: "We must walk towards the future with firm and sure steps, because, quite simply, we don’t have the right to make mistakes.”

As an expression of the continuity and progress of the Cuban revolutionary process, Raul said Commander in Chief Fidel Castro’s ideology is clearly identified within the draft document on Guidelines on Social and Economic Policy of the Party and the Revolution. As an example, he cited Fidel Castro in two significant moments, in 1976 and 1986, 34 and 24 years ago, that illustrate how today’s debates form the core of that same ideology.

Raúl announced that a military parade will take place on April 16, attended by the delegates to the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party. He said that the meeting will begin on the day that marks the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the socialist nature of the Revolution, and will conclude on April 19, the day that marks the Bay of Pigs Victory.

During the final session of the National Assembly, Raul Castro also reported the unanimous election of the 276 lay judges of the Supreme Court and the approval of the Decree-Laws of the Council of State, including those regarding the exercise of self-employment and financial policy for wage guarantees, published in the Official Gazette on November 2.

In addition, the bills for the 2011 Budget and Economic Plan presented by the minister of Planning and the Economy, Marino Murillo Jorge, were passed. The report by the National Assembly’s Economic Commission on the two documents was also approved.

Finally, the deputies agreed to name 2011 as the 53rd Year of the Revolution. (Cubaminrex- Juventud Rebelde)

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