In Celebration of the Beginning of the Cuban Revolution by Norman Markowitz

by: Sunday 26 July 2015

Today is July 26, the sixty second anniversary of   the attack on the Moncada barracks by revolutionaries seeking to overthrow the brutal Batista dictatorship in Cuba.  The attack failed but it was a beginning.  At his tria, Fidel Castro, leader of the attack, acted with such courage and strength that the dictatorship feared to execute him.  Exiled, he returned to Cuba to leader revolutionary guerrila fighters who overthrow the dictatorship at the beginning of 1959 had caught the attention of the whole waorld.  Cuba became a "protectorate" of the U.S. in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War(1898) Cuba also became the center of direct military interventions and the model for military interventions in support of dictatorships tied to U.S. economic interests under th "Platt Amendment" which give the U.S. the right to intervene to defend the "independence of  nations in Central America and the Carribean as it definded "independence."  Although the Platt Amendment was formally renounced by Franklin Roosevet it was not only restored but made the model, under the Truman Doctrine, for U.S. interventions in Greece, Korea, Vietnam, and the creation of U.S. bilateral and multi-lateral  alliances in the name of "freedom" and "independence."

From 1960 on Cuba has faced and survived a blockade.  It survived the CIA managed invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961.  Fidel and Raul Castro survived many CIA and CIA-Mafia attempts to murder them

When Fidel made this statement in 1973, the Nixon administration, still committed to destroying the Cuban revolution and murdering Fidel, was mired in the Watergate crisis, where, ironically the stooges of the Committee to Re-elect the President(CREEP) were Cubans who had for years been engaged in the CIA's criminal attacks on Cuba. 

The whole world survived the Cuban Missie Crisis of 1962.  Fidel and Raul survived and still stand.  There has been an Aftican-American President since 2009 and more recently a Pope from Argentina who has moved in a very progressive direction.  Relations between the U.S. and Cuba are being normalized although no U.S. government has admitted its crimes and what forms the normalization will take is still not completely clear. And of course, Guantanamo, the naval base the U.S. established  under the Platt Ammendment policy for than a century ago still stands, today as a notorious prison camp for people in the "war against terrorism."

Long Live the Cuban Revolution and Long Live Cuban Socialism

Cuba Si, Imperialismo, No!!!

Norman Markowitz

 

 

 

 

 
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  • The Cuban people, having been blockaded by Yankee imperialism, have demonstrated their vast capacity to resist, by some working class miracle.
    That same Coca-Cola, Colgate- Palmolive imperialistic anti-communism that moved president Truman and minister Churchill, to unleash Cold War terror from Fulton MO in 1947, accented by an earlier Atom Bomb on hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese civilians, killing them instantaneously, affecting the earth and peoples for a thousand years, to "compromise" with anti-democratic forces which killed democracy, stopping voting and freedom of motion of Latino and African Americans, stalling their destiny to complete what president Fidel Castro prophetically states here: "The US will come to talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American Pope."
    The imperialists could not stop progress of the peoples, Cuba's destiny as powerful female society of peace and progress, the thunderous power of millions and millions of Latino Americans, from North, South and Central America, demanding and commanding a Pope-combined here with nearly 40 millions of African Americans in North America, all demanding full human and voting rights then, and they certainly can not stop us now.
    Fight, fight, fight and fight on to increase awareness and all human contact with Cuba on all levels, and expose the dastardly imperialist designs to divide humanity for profits and destruction-to illuminate our feet, as our brother fighter Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (imprisoned by the C I A) did, in his Long Walk to Freedom, highlighting Cuba's role in freeing the world from South African Apartheid, a Boer morphed British imperialism, its racist, exploitive hatred.
    We must remember, the C I A's murderous imperialist criminals from The Bay of Pigs, were offered by the great Fidel, in exchange for the great African American Communist, Henry Winston, imprisoned by the fascistic Second Red Scare, because Winston fought for democracy, peace and labor rights for the whole, united people of the hemisphere, including the great African American people, who, to almost a person, voted in our first black president.
    Cuba Si, Imperialismo, No!!!

    Posted by E.E.W. Clay, 07/27/2015 11:46am (9 years ago)

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