The Democratic Social-Revolutionary Party of Cuba (, ) is a

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. Although changes to the

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in 1992 decriminalized the right to form political parties other than the

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, no parties are permitted to campaign or engage in public political activities on the island. Public engagements by party members are typically restricted to international gatherings of democratic socialist groups. The main political aims of the ''PSRDC'' are to persuade the Cuban government to declare a political amnesty and to reinstall a sovereign National Constituent Assembly which the party believes was abandoned following

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's coup d'état in 1952. They also call for more freedom in Cuba's state controlled press and an end to what they consider Cuba's human rights violations. The ''PSRDC'' is extremely critical of

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and the Communist Party apparatus describing the present government as "unrepresentative of the ideals of the

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". The party also condemns the role of the United States in the region, requesting that both Cubans and Americans overcome the compulsion to compare the merits and shortfalls of each system, describing such dialogue as unconstructive.

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Essay by Jorge Valls on the goals of the party
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