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Vol. 81/No. 30 August 14, 2017
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End US economic war against people of Cuba
SWP: Emulate example of the Cuban Revolution!
AP/Ramon Espinosa
Celebration in Pinar del Río, Cuba, July 26, on anniversary of opening
of the Cuban Revolution with the 1953 attack on the Batista
dictatorship’s Moncada military barracks.
The following statement was released Aug. 2 by Mary Martin, Socialist
Workers Party candidate for mayor of Seattle.
The Cuban Revolution is living proof that working people can unite,
organize, fight, transform ourselves in struggle, take political power
from the propertied rulers and begin to build a society qualitatively
different from dog-eat-dog capitalism — a socialist society based on
human solidarity.
This is the significance of the celebrations in Cuba, the U.S. and
elsewhere marking the anniversary of the 1953 attack on the Moncada and
Carlos Manuel Céspedes garrisons by Fidel Castro and other young Cuban
revolutionaries, opening the revolutionary struggle that led to the 1959
overthrow of the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship.
The introduction to the book Cuba and the Coming American Revolution by
SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes says, “Cuba showed us that with class
solidarity, political consciousness, courage, focus and persistent
efforts at education, and a revolutionary leadership of a caliber like
that in Cuba — a leadership tested and forged in battle over years, it
is possible to stand up to enormous might and seemingly insurmountable
odds and win.”
In October, young people, workers and others from the U.S. and around
the world will spend two weeks in Cuba as part of the “In the Footsteps
of Che International Brigade.” Che Guevara was a central leader of the
revolution who fell in combat in 1967 at the hands of the CIA while
leading Bolivian, Cuban and other combatants in an effort to mobilize
workers and farmers to overthrow the Bolivian dictatorship.
Join me on the brigade, to see firsthand Cuba’s social advances, such as
free health care and education for all, part of social relations that
can only exist in a country where the working class holds political power.
Above all we’ll talk with Cuban workers and farmers whose solidarity,
confidence, determination and internationalism made possible the sending
of some 425,000 volunteers to Angola between 1975 and 1991 to defend
that country’s newly won independence, help defeat the invading
apartheid South African army, and win the liberation of Namibia.
The Cuban people extend solidarity with others fighting around the
world, expecting nothing in return. They know the future lies in the
hands of workers and youth who emulate their example and overthrow
capitalist exploitation, racism and war. That is what my party, the
Socialist Workers Party, is about.
The capitalist rulers of the United States fear that working people in
the U.S., looking for a way out of the deepening economic, political,
social and moral crisis of the capitalist system, will become attracted
to the Cuban road. This is why Washington has never stopped seeking to
overthrow the revolution, tightened its decadeslong economic embargo
against Cuba, and refuses to give up its naval base and notorious prison
at Guantánamo Bay.
The Socialist Workers Party is campaigning with workers on their
doorsteps in big cities, small towns and rural areas across the country.
We have seen how working people are more and more open to learning about
the Cuban example.
Join me on the brigade to learn how better to explain the Cuban
Revolution to workers and young people here. Join the Socialist Workers
Party!
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