At the August, 1960, meeting of the Popular Socialist Party of Cuba (Communist) the leader of the group told the delegates what the party had done since the last meeting (February, 1952), to combat tyranny, imperialism, and latifundia, and to promote the cause of Communism in the island. Blas Roca called attention to the fact that the previous congress had met on the eve of the coup d’etat that had returned Batista to power, and that the party had been forced underground by the despotism that ensued. He then launched into an account of the rise and success of the Castro revolution and an analysis of the Castro program, which he characterized as not yet Communist: “Our revolution is not Communist, not because it is Cuban, but because it is not now applying Communist measures or laws, because it is not constructing or organizing a Communist regime now, because it is carrying out anti-imperialist and anti-latifundist objectives, national-liberation, agrarian and industrial objectives for advancing toward the new tasks that social progress will impose upon it.”
It is evident that Cuba’s Communist leader is sure that the Castro revolution will go on to the Communist goal, and to that end he called on the party members to give the program their whole-hearted support: “We must considerably increase and improve our ideological work, our work of raising the revolutionary consciousness of the workers, peasants and the entire people, our work of spreading and explaining Marxist-Leninist theory, Marxist-Leninist principles and Marxist-Leninist methods to all members of the party and all solid revolutionary elements.” Both friends and foes of the Castro regime may well ponder this report on what is happening in Cuba by the man who has led the Communist movement there for a generation. It appeared first in the Communist organ Hoy on August 21, 1960. The present English translation is excellent.
