‘Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories’: The Cuban Revolution, Social Vulnerability, and Revolutionary Ethics

The following commentary was published on Facebook on July 16, 2025. The author, Isaac Saney, is on faculty at the College of Continuing Education, Dalhousie University, and an adjunct professor of International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University, both in Halifax, Canada.

from #WorldOutlook
July 22, 2025

In one of the most enduring axioms of revolutionary integrity, Amílcar Cabral — African liberation theorist...urged those engaged in the struggle for liberation and justice to “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.” This precept demands truth-telling, humility, and a relentless confrontation with reality. It stands in opposition to demagoguery, denial, and the temptation to obscure difficult truths for the sake of appearances.

https://world-outlook.com/2025/07/22/tell-no-lies-claim-no-easy-victories-the-cuban-revolution-social-vulnerability-and-revolutionary-ethics/

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