Fidel in the Cuban Socialist Revolution

José Bell Lara is Professor and Consultant of the University of Havana and researcher of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Cuba). He has authored and co-authored numerous texts about Cuba and Latin America, including those in the series Documentos de la Revolución Cubana 1959-1970: Cuba: la generación revolucionaria 1952-1961; Cuba: las mujeres en la insurrección 1952-1961; Combatientes; and Cuba: período especial.. Tania Caram León is a Professor at the University of Havana and researcher of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Cuba). She has published several texts about Cuban women and has co-authored works in the editorial series Documentos de la Revolución Cubana 1959-1970: Cuba: la generación revolucionaria1952-1961; Cuba: las mujeres en la insurrección 1952-1961; Combatientes; and Cuba: período especial. Delia Luisa López García is Professor Emeritus of the University of Havana and researcher of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Cuba). She has published several texts on Cuba and Latin America and has co-authored works in the editorial series Documentos de la Revolución Cubana 1959-1970: Cuba: la generación revolucionaria 1952-1961; Cuba: las mujeres en la insurrección 1952-1961; Combatientes; and Cuba: período especial..

 Preface ix

 Translator’s Note xii

 Charles McKelvey

 Introduction

 José Bell Lara, Tania Caram León and Delia Luisa López García

 Historical Context

 José Bell Lara, Tania Caram León and Delia Luisa López García



Part 1: 1959: Year of Liberation

 Introduction to 1959: “Year of Liberation”

 José Bell Lara, Tania Caram León and Delia Luisa López García

 Call to Revolutionary General Strike

 The Revolution Begins Now

 To Speak the Truth Is the First Duty of All Revolutionaries

 We are Revolutionaries Making a Revolution, Revolutionaries in Power!

 To Live on Our Knees, Why?

 This Law Initiates an Entirely New Stage in Our Economic Life and a Magnificent Future Awaits Our Country

 The Cuban People Is an Invincible People

 In Cuba, There is a Democracy Where the People Discuss Their Problems Directly

 The Entire Nation Stands without Fear

 The Working Class and the Cuban Revolution

 We have Kept Our Promises to the People



Part 2:

 Introduction to 1960: “Year of Agrarian Reform”

 José Bell Lara, Tania Caram León and Delia Luisa López García

 The Revolution Converts Barracks into Schools

 The Future of Our Country Necessarily has to Be a Future of Men of Science and Thought

 The Choice is Patria o Muerte

 Democracy Is This

 The Slogan for the People Is: Venceremos!

 Latin America Does Not Have the Right to Make a Revolution

 Women, the Decisive Factor in the Revolution

 Declaration of Havana

 Speech in the General Assembly of the United Nations

 We Are Going to Establish a System of Collective Revolutionary Watch

 The Moncada Program Has been Carried Out



Part 3:

 Introduction to 1961: “Year of Education”

 José Bell Lara, Tania Caram León and Delia Luisa López García

 The Revolution Is a Struggle to the Death between the Future and the Past

 What the Imperialists Cannot Forgive

 Communiques from the Battle at Playa Girón

 At Playa Girón, the Country for All has Triumphed

 Glossary

 Bibliography

 Index