All of our actions characterises not only us but also the role we play in the social system we are living in. Our private actions – whether wanted or unwanted – also fulfil a social function regardless that we are aware of it or not or we intended it or not. The article analyses the attempts to undertake or suspend different social roles.

The military actions of Cuba in Africa between 1961 and 1988 or the internationalist help of Cuba to national liberation movements from Algeria though Congo, Angola and Mozambique are not counted as the most advertised events in the 20th century. Nevertheless as we can learn from the interview with Fidel Castro, Cuba had a decisive role in the military defence of the popular government of Angola, in breaking the military power of the white regime in South Africa thus helping the fall of apartheid or securing the independence of Namibia. Military developments peaked at the battle at Cuito Cuanavale.

The present crisis of the capitalist world is not just a cyclical one, but a comprehensive structural crisis of the system signing that the capital system has reached its absolute boundaries. As a result on the long run not only attempts to strengthen state regulation but also system stabilisation efforts by increasing oppression will be ineffective. This situation opens a new historic opportunity to create a new order based on solidarity and full social control of production. However to realise this theoretical opportunity, the defensive 20th century attitude of interest protection has to be given up, and strategic goals and the ways of fight of the working class should be profoundly rethought, as well as the relationship between its political and economy organisations.