Young communists
in Havana province
intent on fighting fickleness
Perseverance a requirement
to stamp out shortcomings,
assures the general evaluation meeting of the
Young Communist League in Havana province.
By:
Marianela Martín González
E-mail:
digital@jrebelde.cip.cu
December 18, 2007 - 02:27:19 GMT
A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. Original:
http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2007-12-18/jovenes-comunistas-habaneros-optan-por-batallar-contra-la-inconstancia/
«Some of us no
longer pay attention to our shortcomings because most of the time
perseverance is needed to root them out. That’s something we dismiss in
a daily life marked by material limitations and the indifference of
those who must join our youth’s efforts to corner them», said Saraima
Guerra at the general evaluation meeting of the Young Communist League (UJC)
in Havana province.
She regretted
that the organization’s leadership in education, a field we can exploit
to the full, has fallen short of expectations. «There’s unlimited
potential here for dynamic, creative ideological work, since we have 57
pre-university schools in the countryside, 27 technical schools, 3
universities and 4 university schools covering 76 municipal centers, all
included in the program to make education universal».
UJC first
secretary Julio Martínez warned of the need to «make our youth aware of
the risk facing the Cuban education system should we fail to come up
with a new way of doing things in this province».
He described the
top-priority tasks of Havana province’s youth to conquer the future, a
goal the delegates had set themselves in this meeting –hosted by the
Agrarian University ‘Fructuoso Rodríguez’– where a critical review was
made of the UJC’s difficulties to play its role, mainly in schools, one
of the most representative sectors in this territory given their number
and diversity.
«If we believe
that reporting a problem is enough to contribute to its solution, we
would have to ask ourselves whether we have really understood that we
must be at the forefront, as befits the UJC», remarked Maykel Aledo,
president of the provincial Youth Movement ‘José Martí’. Knowing what’s
going on around us is not sufficient; we must hurry and be both
systematic and intelligent, he added.
Several delegates
stressed the need to do political work on the younger generations to
make them grasp the value of being useful to the country, insisting that
it’s the only way to revert some youths’ apathy toward studying and
working.
Just as the UJC
members appraised the need to recruit students with a natural bent
toward education, they bemoaned the lack of attention to those already
engaged, some of whom are still immature and unskilled to fill all the
gaps in the Cuban education system, renowned for the parity it achieves
in the teaching of sciences and the highest personal values.
«It’s up to us to
have a better future», underscored Julio Martínez at the end of the
meeting.
«You must go on
in the same way that you prepared yourselves to hold this meeting:
working and providing spaces for healthy recreation and interaction,
because we have set ourselves many targets in order to protect the
Revolution’s accomplishments», he said.
Iván Ordaz
Curbelo, first secretary of the Communist Party in Havana province,
emphasized that our youth’s involvement in production is paramount,
wherever they may be.
«We don’t take
anything from the Revolution; rather, we give it all we’ve got, and to
do that we need some preparation», he declared.
Lizette González
was confirmed as first secretary of the UJC in this province.
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