Cuban REVOLUTION Inspires the American Working-Class

CUBA – THE U.S. NEEDS TO CRUSH THE GOVERNMENT

BECAUSE IT CANNOT BEAT AN IDEA – COMMUNISM

The U.S. is strangling Cuba with an oil embargo and planning to invade the country because it is everything that the U.S. is not, but could be. Cuba shows what could happen when you eliminate private property. Cuba represents an idea whose time has come!

In 1958, a leading anti-Communist talking head, Walter Lippmann, warned American capitalists and their government that “the main power of the Communist states lies not in their clandestine activity but in the force of their example, in the visible demonstration of what the Soviet Union has achieved in forty years, or what Red China has achieved in about ten years.”¹

What the capitalists fear. Lippmann warned that the elimination of private property and the creation a society based upon freedom and cooperation was the main threat to capitalism. He saw that in the Soviet Union and China this was not a dream, but a reality. Communism was an idea that the capitalists had to keep from the American people.

The Cuban Revolution. The Capitalists worst nightmare happened on January 9, 1959 when the 26^th of July Movement led by Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba. A communist state was only 90 miles from the U.S. The U.S. government was one of the first to recognize the new Cuban government. The hope was that Castro would be the same as the deposed dictator Fulgencio Batista, a corrupt and brutal tool of U.S. corporations and crime syndicates.

Cuba takes control of its country’s wealth. In 1960, the U.S. had over $2 billion ($20 billion in 2026 dollars) invested in Cuba. Then, on August 6, 1960, the Cuban government announced Joint Resolution #1 and took control of the resources and wealth of the country.^2,3 Major U.S. companies (Texaco, Esso, Sinclair, Coca-Cola), insurance companies, banks, and large-scale sugar mills were nationalized in the name of the Cuban people. The expropriated land was used to develop state-managed agricultural enterprises; or it was distributed without charge to peasants who worked on land they did not own, each receiving a “vital minimum” of 26.85 hectares, and all encouraged to form voluntary agricultural cooperatives.²

U.S. attacks Cuba. The U.S. government broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba and in 1961 tried to overthrow the Cuban government with the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. Authorized by President John F. Kennedy, the CIA-trained force of 1,400 Cuban exiles was defeated by Fidel Castro’s forces within two days.⁴

Fidel Castro wrote the following to President Kennedy in response to US aggression,

“The US government says that a socialist regime here threatens US security. But what threatens the security of the US people is the aggressive policy of the warmongers of the US. What threatens the security of the North American family and the US people is the violent, aggressive policy that ignores the sovereignty and the rights of other peoples… We do not endanger the life or security of a single US family. We are making cooperatives, agrarian reform, people’s farms, houses, schools, literacy campaigns, and sending thousands and thousands of teachers to the interior of Cuba, building hospitals, sending doctors, giving scholarships, building factories, converting fortresses into schools.”⁵

Fidel Castro and the Cuban People proved that Lippmann was right – a free and democratic people are a threat to capitalism.

Today the U.S. trying to starve Cuba into submission. “When it comes to Cuba, the Democratic and Republican parties support nearly identical policies, which are not intended to further the interests of ordinary Cubans, or Americans for that matter. Neither political party is genuinely interested in establishing free-trade ties with Cuba, nor are they committed to any humanitarian causes. Instead, US policies have focused on ensuring that Cuba is a closed commercial state, with the intent of bringing about its eventual collapse. In that event, the US will be able to reestablish the control that it previously exerted over the island before the Cuban Socialist Revolution prevailed on January 1, 1959.”⁵

This will not work!

Capitalists think that humankind is like them – greedy, evil, competitive, and out for themselves. That given the chance, the working class will turn on each other and fight among themselves, rather than for themselves.

But human beings are kind, compassionate, giving and cooperative. The Cuban people are united and will fight to save their country and their way of life. The people of Minneapolis and Americans all over the country are united in the defense of their immigrant brothers and sisters and their children. The people of Gaza have not been defeated, even in the face of an ongoing genocide.

NOW IS THE TIME FOR THE WORKING PEOPLE OF THE WORLD TO UNITE!

NOW IS THE TIME TO CHANGE THE WORLD, TO FREE OURSELVES FROM THE BONDAGE OF CAPITALISM!

NOW IS THE TIME TO CREATE A JUST, PEACEFUL AND COOPERATIVE WORLD.

References

1. https://www.nytimes.com/1959/01/25/archives/mr-l-goes-to-moscow-the-communist-world-and-ours-by-walter-lippmann.html
2. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06/d616#:~:text=Relations%20between%20the%20United%20States,detained%2C%20and%20diplomatic%20immunities%20violated.
3. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/29/the-cuban-nationalization-of-us-property-in-1960-the-historical-and-global-context/
4. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/bay-pigs-invasion
5. https://mises.org/mises-wire/brief-history-enduring-american-embargo-against-cuba?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17071060050&gbraid=0AAAAADhCyIXYW-BMniWfOaTg_TvXXiCQZ&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7IjOBhDyARIsAFzrWQw4ASOGQbDstgQ6hOnKtvr_3CkwTzf43BXeez4dMUvDNe1P88y4FecaAr2ZEALw_wcB