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1698 cue quavana “reexs on AIERICAN ATTACKS ON CUM, & ROVOLUTIONAPY TACTICS
The following report,which is based upon a lsinhua item, is very important for a number of reasons. It places the blame of the recently intensified attacks on Cuba (since the test ban treaty!) fairly and squarely on the American government, “hilst the Cubans have not sided with the Chinese Communists openly, what Guevara has to say about revolution in Latin America and the role of the Cuban C.F, in the Cuban Rovyolution clearly dissa:sociates the Cubans from the Ehruchchovite line of peaceful coexistence, Ed. note,
The recent attacks on Cuba "are not isolated incidents, They were not carried out by common counter—revolutionaries, but were organised and financed by the United States," said Ernesto Che Guevara, Cuban Ifinister of Industry, (and generally considered ‘number 2' man in Cuba), on Monday August 19th, when addressing the delegates of Latin American countries who had gone to Cuba to take part in the celebrations of the tenth armiversary of "July 26th",
He said that these attacks wore evidence of intensifying U.5. pressure on Cuba. Answering the question whother the latest attacks "are the prelude to a major attack by U.S, imperialism," he said, "Ye do not know, but we are always ready to defeat any attack, If they come, we will resist them, If they do not come, then so much the better, The United States will cling to all its aggressive intentions against Cuba," The U.S. imperialists do not want the Cuban revolution to live, They will create tension by every means possible, he said.
Answoring the question whether revolutions in Latin America should be made through armed struggle or through peaceful means, he said: "Whether a revolution will be made through armed struggle or through other means depends on many conditions, In each country, revolution will be carried out in accordance with its objective conditions and conditions of its revolutionary vanguard, Generally spoaking,tho form is armed struggle. Put in particular, is should be decided by each country itself. How will revolution break out in a specific country? It depends on the exploiters and the exploited,
"If the conditions are ripe, the form is war; if the conditions are not ripe, then it will be a failure, The revolutionary vanguard of each country should make the decisions If it is wrong, it will cease to be a vanguard and will be replaced by other combatants, In Venezuela, fighting is now underway. Here the answer is clear: the form is armed struggle," i inswering the question "How did the Cuban Revolution become ‘one of Marxism-Leninism" Guevara said: “iarxism—Leniniem was neither ths official doctrine of the (July 26th) movement nor the intention of some comrades, The whole process has demonstrated to us the truth elucidated by the great thoses of Marxism—Leniniam. During our strugglo against imperialism and the exploiting classes, we have seen how liarxism has prepared solutions for all these problems. We were a group of revolutionaries ongaged in a fight for libration, We have seen clearly that-this struggle brought with it e strug gle against imperialism, We became acquainted with Mao Tse-Tung's theory on gucrilla warfare after we had liaunched » guerilla war in Cuba, and what he said corresponded vory much to our reality." Answering the question whether "a revolution can bo carried ont without the oxistence of a communist party, "he mids "This was made clear during the epoch of Lenin, In order to carry out a Marxist-Leninist revolution, it is nacessary to have a llarxist- Lenitist party which is influential among the massea,
He added: "In Cuba, the Communist Party did not lead the revolution, but it had exercised an influence on it; at the present stage of socialism, its participation is important." "In Cuba, the C.F. neither saw clearly, nor understood correctly the form of struggle. It committed a mistake in estimating the possibility of victory..,Here, this serious mistake was not costly heacrusa thro wan Fidel “actre and o group of gontinog rovolutionarios, In’ othor p-rts of the world, a nistake like this may be very costly.se.