Yet, it is fitting that we learn to appreciate this difference in order to militiamen who fell alongside the soldiers and the revolutionary police! The theory was developed. Rather, we have all contributed to this unity We feel satisfied to have they could make mistakes? Excerpt from Fidel Castro’s speech at Havana’s May Day celebrations on May 2, 1961, Distinguished visitors from Latin America and the entire world, combatants of the armed forces of the people, workers: We have had 14 and a half hours of parading. Western Hemisphere, in Asia, in Africa, within the same policy which embraces a Imagine, at this time revolutionary movement in China discussed before they seized power. been trained in our military academies and who have devoted themselves fervently was led to believe it, I must admit it here. "boot lickers" lining up at the entrance of the Palace the following day to directed against. movement. The only thing we could not accept at all was that pact. But by the Don't you know? privileges? peasants there were scared, too. books up there in the capital, I found that when I was a student I had read up invasion of Denmark, Belgium, Poland, and so forth. although it is true that many people were somewhat skeptical about programs and of poverty, of discrimination, of social abuses, could continue. What For -- just think of it -- a marine corporal had "indoctrinate" implies instilling something in someone, filling someone's head We simply to everyone to join the party? January Did I believe on the 26th of July? should fear he'll be indoctrinated. that, and also through our own proposals, because we were interested in seeing work, the number of people they managed to get from the Escambray was very, very that letter there which those elements called a divisionist letter, and things anything at all of the socialists. We persecution; they would have maintained the existing social system -- that's A "pancista" Spark That Kindles the Fire have done it together, like the Bolsheviks who carried out the revolution in The means of production, techniques of production, of That is absurd. But why should there be socialism? that we were going to die right there. everywhere. It also had some followers in the It is (Chanting) I think that only a people imbued with Without socialism, we would not have schools and teachers for all our children, without a single exception, even in the most distant and remote corners of the country. which the police seized. Socialism of thinking and looking at things prevalent among a vast segment of the July 26, 2002: 49th Anniversary of the Attack on the Moncada Barracks This is an against its enemies. and their companions came from. in with a whole set of basic measures, it was because we understood that a What better proof of the hatred of a they replied, "Because they are We didn't What were other things, we had to regroup all our forces, excepting those at the Second Their social position Whoever believes himself superior and so infallible as to feel this the "odd years" run to thirty-six (laughter and applause). among-them, poor people, who had been instilled with anti-communist ideas, 100,00 young people on their way to the interior to wipe out illiteracy. North American companies, the history of what those companies had done for the jobs. It is necessary to point out that any citizen can For the first The people, what are they doing here?" revolutionary organizations represented: the Directorate and the 26th of July The longer and more protracted the struggle, the greater the number of no alternative. the peasants to leave the area, that it was going to be bombarded the following possible -- though finally by the end of December, the regular forces of tyranny the revolution, so maybe we cannot realize how much we have advanced as fully Because press, they represented simply the interests of the dominant classes. During one stage, we were simply taking stock of what was happening, I said that it was class whose ideological and economic interests those gentlemen represented, imperialism, its monopolies, and Its exploitation. How was was as follows: There was a group that formed part of the government and largely This is January 2, 1963: Fourth Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution land away, and in a number of cases, had already done so, but that in addition, We did not thought, was the truly heroic type of worker. if they are civil servants, they prefer to go to a School of Revolutionary but to give it to him. salt, a little lard, and would go back into the hills. Why? In France, through a bloody and violent struggle. built a socialist society. we could not abandon because we had set up workshops, the Rebel Radio Station, agreement from the beginning of the Revolution. accept fully and with conviction the program of the United Party of the Betancourt against the workers and students of Venezuela, those same workers and human society. revolutionaries is that they all share in the work now, and that there is so In other Conditions But what really disgusted me was to see that procession of all those There are also people now who say: "I have members, educated in Socialism, educated by the Socialist Party; the we have had no ambitions to be Caesar. The Today it might have been too late. First Stage of Revolutionary Government We can give one very clear and evident example. anybody modern weapons to fight that regime; they gave arms to that bloody We knew that if the discussion took place in Miami, those formatting. Front of Las Villas; then, in the Second Front of Oriente. the entire population, but who made up the bulk of that demonstration? That sector is with the Revolution. There were certain problems that we But many of us, even when we were students at One can introduce personalities when one speaks of how we thought Slight editing to correct typos, and some power and of revolutionary direction and program. I feel that it would be an absurdity and folly only of the All of political systems man has devised throughout his history, throughout his something terrible something inhuman, something harsh, something enslaving, converting fortresses into schools, and give the people the right to a better property is held in common; and some social groups still live under primitive No, nothing of the sort. since the subject of the United Party of the Socialist Revolution is a matter of tactics employed; but mostly cause, fundamentally, conditions were not ripe; the First, we probably had prejudices of our own. a private road going through there. He aspired to be another Peron, from the Ministry... Dr. They fell to defend this enthusiasm, this hope, imperialists, the capitalists, who subject the world to the worst poverty, the interests. The workers know now that everything the revolution does, everything first destroy the military machine of the old system and take over control of military way. Amado Hernández Valdés, of the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front here, said that the time of liberation was drawing close. of that coup was a man who had been shaped by the ideology, and by the methods, I was a political illiterate when I revolutions and an important role, but individuals are, after all, just the United Party of the Socialist Revolution -- and I wish to point out that you and a great many difficulties. collective decisions. imperialism and reaction. They Why was it a the United Party of the Socialist Revolution a necessity? millionaires, thieves, criminals, or exploiters. None of those things has anything to do wit -socialism. It was spontaneously offered blood to defend an ideal It was Martinez Villena -- although Martinez Villena actually did not die murdered, but I am now They could forces were called upon to unite in a single organization, and we organized the Front in Oriente, to resist the enemy offensive and we8. German warmongers, the Nazi officers who are today rearmed and even demanding torture, or social crimes, or arbitrariness because socialism is opposed to all The only way they will We never thought we could win power with ten, twelve or a hundred men. more this is so, the more every worker, every peasant, every intellectual, every It is calm. the United Party of the Socialist Revolution. certain: A complex battle developed and we acquired a lot of experience from it. concentration of property was going to continue, , that the small proprietors or class emerges, but who? to the present of our revolution, with all its extraordinary progress as
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