Comrade Marcel
9th July 2005, 11:12
Hello friends of Cuba,
Let this new anniversary of the assault to the Moncada barricade reaffirm the support of the Womens Coordinating Committee Cuba 98 towards the Cuban Revolution and protest once more against the criminal siege of the United States, its actions against that small country that is an example of revolutionary strength and dignity, for Latin America and the world entire.
We would also like to invite you all to participate in a political and cultural event in celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the assault to the Moncada barricade. SATURDAY JULY 23 at 8 pm, in The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Avenue ( south of Bloor, between Bathurst and Spadina).We will have music, poetry, and dance with SOL DE CUBA, and other local artists. Let us celebrate this great event in history and the most beautiful girl of the West Indies: the Cuban Revolution.
For more information please call: (416) 489-7040 or email: [email protected]
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26 of July, 1953: We are already in combat, to defend the ideal of those who have died, to get rid of villains from the historic temple, for the heroic gesture of Maseo, for the sweet memory of Marti.
At 52 years of the success that gave way to the beginning of the Cuban Revolution, with great dignity and huge effort, that causes the admiration Cuba has today, in defense of its revolution the most difficult time of a history plagued with sacrifice.
It has been more than 40 years of aggression and blockade from the imperialist neighbour, today virtually master of the world, which Cuba bears with exemplary integrity.
The patriotic roots and heroism of the Cuban Revolution had its beginning in the assault to the Moncada barricade. The proud and foreboding conclusion of the leader in process, Fidel Castro, in his judicial defense Condemn me, it does not matter, history will absolve me! saw itself ratified in the outcome.
The assault of the Moncada barricade, in the strictest sense was a huge failure It cost the lives of more than 70 brave people and filled the Cuban people with shock and fear, who were then suffering the dictatorship of Gerenal Fullgencio Batista.
Even in the leftist Latin American zone, a few unscrupulous critics called the action an adventure and slipped the suspicion of an incited provocation from Washington.
However Moncada, seen in the frame where history would place its most relevant facts, remains to be the factor that initiated a victorious process of insurrectional and guerilla struggle. Six years later that struggle culminated, with the first revolutionary triumph in Latin America. The Cuban revolution has gravitated with strength in the political and social reality of the continent throughout these years.
There is no doubt that it is about the greatest historic event of Latin America since the independence. It enrolls in the struggles that were initiated in the 19th century by Bolivar, Sucre, San Martin, OHiggins, Hidalgo, Morazan and Artigas.
Jose Mart, father of the Cuban independence, wrote of mankind what would also be true for nations: When there are many men without propriety, there are always those who have the propriety of many men. They are the ones who rebel with terrible force unto those who rob people of their liberty, which is robbing people of their decorum. Cuba has decorum of all Latin American nations over its shoulders. For the poor and exploited, Cuba still is an example.
If then, the pathways of Moncada and the Sierra Maestra seem impossible to cross today, it is evident that peoples of Latin America would have to prepare themselves and organize their own authentic revolutions in order to realize change, in order not to die of hunger. The necessity of change and social justice will give way to the formation of original forms of organization and struggle in every country, just as the new proposals of Latin America and Third world socialism are incubating the struggles and reflections of today.
In that sense, history will recognize the assault to the Moncada Barricade, the first tug in the long struggle for Latin American liberation.
--------------------- The Women'sCoordinating Committe '98 --------------------------
http://ontario.indymedia.ca/twiki/pub/Toronto/jpg/2005/Moncada---52-Anniversary-Po.jpg
Let this new anniversary of the assault to the Moncada barricade reaffirm the support of the Womens Coordinating Committee Cuba 98 towards the Cuban Revolution and protest once more against the criminal siege of the United States, its actions against that small country that is an example of revolutionary strength and dignity, for Latin America and the world entire.
We would also like to invite you all to participate in a political and cultural event in celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the assault to the Moncada barricade. SATURDAY JULY 23 at 8 pm, in The Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Avenue ( south of Bloor, between Bathurst and Spadina).We will have music, poetry, and dance with SOL DE CUBA, and other local artists. Let us celebrate this great event in history and the most beautiful girl of the West Indies: the Cuban Revolution.
For more information please call: (416) 489-7040 or email: [email protected]
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26 of July, 1953: We are already in combat, to defend the ideal of those who have died, to get rid of villains from the historic temple, for the heroic gesture of Maseo, for the sweet memory of Marti.
At 52 years of the success that gave way to the beginning of the Cuban Revolution, with great dignity and huge effort, that causes the admiration Cuba has today, in defense of its revolution the most difficult time of a history plagued with sacrifice.
It has been more than 40 years of aggression and blockade from the imperialist neighbour, today virtually master of the world, which Cuba bears with exemplary integrity.
The patriotic roots and heroism of the Cuban Revolution had its beginning in the assault to the Moncada barricade. The proud and foreboding conclusion of the leader in process, Fidel Castro, in his judicial defense Condemn me, it does not matter, history will absolve me! saw itself ratified in the outcome.
The assault of the Moncada barricade, in the strictest sense was a huge failure It cost the lives of more than 70 brave people and filled the Cuban people with shock and fear, who were then suffering the dictatorship of Gerenal Fullgencio Batista.
Even in the leftist Latin American zone, a few unscrupulous critics called the action an adventure and slipped the suspicion of an incited provocation from Washington.
However Moncada, seen in the frame where history would place its most relevant facts, remains to be the factor that initiated a victorious process of insurrectional and guerilla struggle. Six years later that struggle culminated, with the first revolutionary triumph in Latin America. The Cuban revolution has gravitated with strength in the political and social reality of the continent throughout these years.
There is no doubt that it is about the greatest historic event of Latin America since the independence. It enrolls in the struggles that were initiated in the 19th century by Bolivar, Sucre, San Martin, OHiggins, Hidalgo, Morazan and Artigas.
Jose Mart, father of the Cuban independence, wrote of mankind what would also be true for nations: When there are many men without propriety, there are always those who have the propriety of many men. They are the ones who rebel with terrible force unto those who rob people of their liberty, which is robbing people of their decorum. Cuba has decorum of all Latin American nations over its shoulders. For the poor and exploited, Cuba still is an example.
If then, the pathways of Moncada and the Sierra Maestra seem impossible to cross today, it is evident that peoples of Latin America would have to prepare themselves and organize their own authentic revolutions in order to realize change, in order not to die of hunger. The necessity of change and social justice will give way to the formation of original forms of organization and struggle in every country, just as the new proposals of Latin America and Third world socialism are incubating the struggles and reflections of today.
In that sense, history will recognize the assault to the Moncada Barricade, the first tug in the long struggle for Latin American liberation.
--------------------- The Women'sCoordinating Committe '98 --------------------------
http://ontario.indymedia.ca/twiki/pub/Toronto/jpg/2005/Moncada---52-Anniversary-Po.jpg