An Open Letter to the Cuban People & Government, the Cuban Communist Party, the Federation
of Cuban Women
Greetings on the 59th Anniversary of the Victory of the Cuban Revolution!
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) and the All-African Women’s Revolutionary
Union (GC) sends revolutionary greetings and commemorates the Cuban People, the Communist
Party of Cuba, the Federation of Cuban Women and the Cuban Government on the 59th
anniversary of the, the defeat of U.S. imperialism, in Cuba, with the triumph of the Cuban
Revolution.
The A-APRP (GC) understands that the struggle for Cuban independence was born in 1493
against Spanish settler- colonialism and was led by Indigenous Indians, African, and progressive
and revolutionary Spanish Cubans and entered a new phase in 1898. The Cuban People’s
uncompromising struggle propelled the Cuban Revolution forward in its life and death struggle
for genuine National Independence, Women’s Emancipation, and Scientific Socialism. On
January 1, 1959, this struggle reached new heights and continues until today. This revolutionary
struggle was for human dignity and liberty and was also against piracy, human trafficking,
women’s exploitation and oppression, enslavement and genocide.
When the European colonialists established colonies in the Americas, Africa and Asia, Cuban
revolutionaries attacked Spain, one of Europe’s oldest colonial powers. When European
settlers, called Americans, organized mobs in the southern United States and shot, enslaved
and lynched Africans, Cuban revolutionaries fought against European right-wing bourgeois
nationalism, racism and slavery and built a Cuban powerful multi-national army (40 percent of
the commissioned officers were African) waged an anti-colonial war led by Jose Marti and
Antonio Maceo.
This mass struggle for independence transformed the Cuban people, as they fought Spanish
settler-colonialism and then confronted the most dominant imperialist power in the world and
its neo-colonial puppets, the United States of America. The Cuban movement’s principled
intellectual leader of the anti-settler and neo-colonial movements was Jose Marti, who
proposed the equality of all nationalities and the abolition of slavery. Arguably, one of the
valiant military leaders at that time was Antonio Maceo, an African, a common foot soldier who
joined the movement in 1868 and rose to general in 1895.
As an anti-colonialist, anti-neocolonialist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and revolutionary
political party, the A-APPRP (GC) knows why Cuba’s struggle for independence (1493-1898) has
been forgotten by the United States’ imperialist, colonialist, expansionist, and racist
historians. Consequently, Cuba’s struggle for independence from Spanish settler-colonialism
was transformed by the U.S. Government. U.S. imperialism gave its military the authority to
intervene in Cuba in 1898. The U.S. Government took control of Cuba by annexing it and by
implementing the reactionary Platt Amendment. Neo-colonialism came to Cuba as a result of
the U.S-Spanish American War. The Treaty of Paris gave the U.S. imperialist control over four
territories, Cuba, (Guantanamo Naval Base), Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Guam. The Cuban
struggle continued and intensified.
In the relentless Cuban struggle for genuine independence and liberation from U.S, Imperialism,
the Cuban People were encouraged by the leadership of Commandante Fidel Castro Ruiz,
Ernesto Che Guevara, Raul Castro of the July 26th Movement). The Jul 26th Movement led the
struggle to overthrow the vicious dictatorship of the General Fulgencio Batista’s regime and to
end neo-colonialism in Cuba. This dictatorship was a puppet of and supported militarily,
politically and economically by U.S. imperialism.
The Cuba Revolution has been a beacon of hope and inspiration for Peoples and Nations
struggling for Human Dignity and Liberty National Liberation, Women’s Emancipation and
Scientific Socialism and from political oppression and economic deprivation worldwide.
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) understands and acknowledges the history of
Cuba’s revolutionary struggle for genuine National Liberation and Socialism from the past to the
present. We, again, thank Cuba for its courageous political, social and medical assistance to
progressive and revolutionary forces in Africa, the African Diaspora, and around the world
seeking justice and liberation from racist and oppressive conditions and we highlight and honor
Cuba’s military sacrifices including but not limited to Algeria, Angola and Namibia. , We support
and commemorate you on the 59th Anniversary of the victory of the Cuban Revolution.
LONG LIVE THE CUBAN REVOLUTION!!!
LONG LIVE THE CUBAN COMMUNIST PARTY!!!
LONG LIVE THE FEDERATION OF CUBAN WOMEN!!!
LONG LIVE THE CUBAN PEOPLE!!!
FORWARD TO PAN-AFRICANISM!!!
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)
All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC)
