The party was also strongly anti-Islamic from early on, and in its 1993 program regarded Islam as "a doctrine, which preaches holy war, assassination, forced conversions, oppression of women, slavery and extermination of "infidels", [which] will automatically lead to what we now call fundamentalism".
"A political system based on force, oppression, changing people's votes, killing, closure, arresting and using Stalinist and medieval torture, creating repression, censorship of newspapers, interruption of the means of mass communications, jailing the enlightened and the elite of society for false reasons, and forcing them to make false confessions in jail, is condemned and illegitimate," he wrote.
Rather than ethnic diversity being at the root of this discontentment as some commentators suggest, it is the years of oppression, forced detentions, extra-judicial killings, exploitation and militarisation in these regions that is at the root of their resentment.
Depression was also seen as a consequence of recurrent, cumulative stress, disadvantage, marginalisation, oppression, forced separation and an overwhelming sense of loss.
"The world simply could not believe the pyramids were build without oppression and forced labour, but out of loyalty to the pharaohs".
"With the ongoing oppression, imprisonment, forced confessions, and show trials the government cannot be Islamic," he said in an open letter published on his website.
She referred to "the desperate and repressive Castro regime" and the "ordinary Cubans who are forced to live in oppression under Castro's rule".
Asian women are encouraged to write about oppression and forced marriage, while representations of black culture include absent fathers and gangs.
"Forced removal and state oppression?
Finding the love of your life will not make you happy if you are forced to live in oppression.
