On Friday evening before the weekend, 400 people attended a rally in County Hall commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. People's Democracy who also addressed the rally. Below, John Ross (speaking) and Duncan Hallas of the SWP who debated the Labour Party and entrism at the Debating Socialism weekend. WORKERSHE WORLD Above Ernest Mandal speaking to the rally; right Ann Speed of MILLIONS of second Cuban revolution, stylised poster portrait.
This Nothing better cond front against perialism.
to him.
Arbenz had just been elected.
At that time the dent of the United Fruit Company.
The result the State of war' revolution:
to make a revolution to establish a guerrilla army.
*Political economic the dominating it.
fairs, he was the strategist of the battle o Santa Clara the Batista from Cuba. mander of the guerrilla column, acted as chiel doctor - and dentist!
resort to "psychological anacthesia" which in plain language means in sulting the TOUCHES complained about the pain. already become a Marxist as well as a revolutionary revolutionary movement as a whole people have heard of 'Che" Guevara, Fidel's in command in the and most would recognise his famous But what did he stand for? What achievements?
SUITS up Guevara than his death in Oc tober 1967, fighting in Bolivia. He went there at the height of the Vietnam war to open a'seUS imFifteen years after his death PAUL LAWSON and ALAN FREEMAN pay tribute Ernesto Che Guevara was born in Argentina. He decided to become a doctor, and to pursue his studies travelled the length and breadth of Latin America. By accident, he arrived in Guatemala in 1954, a very significant year for that country. The mild reformist government of Jacob country dominated by the US United Fruit Company. John Foster Dulles, the US Secretary was determined that no government hostile to that company could survive. He had good reason His brother Allen Dulles was presiwas an invasion of counter-revolutionary exiles, organised by the Central Intelligence Agency This completely changed Che's thinking. He said: "The United Fruit ComDepartment and Dulles - they were in fact one and the and they unleashed the dogs What Guevara had discovered in Guatemala was in fact imperialism. He decided to devote himself to the *to become revolutionary physician one first of all has Two vears later he was one of the group which landed on Cuba with Fidel Castro. rom the boat Granmi In the tionalist in Sierra Macstra, Guevara and Hidels brother Raul became effectively the sovereignty and independence suited:
have its own economy, if it is foreign capital people it cannot be free from control by the country it is dependent on. nor can it exercise its will it it conflicts with the interests of economically dependence.
National sovereignty means
first a country's rant not Cuban have any one interfere in its af the right of people to March, 1963 Leading his own guerrilla column, tain fall which precipitated the flight of the dictator addition to acting as comHe comments: "my lack of experience The and lack of anesthetic forced me to they In the Sierra Maestra Guevara had action. But the than one house. was not Marxist: its aims were vague, democratic and naformulation. When the guerrilla rebels swept into Havana on New Year's Day 1959, the direction of the revolution was by no means cerhave the kind of government and way of life they find best this depends on their own choice and it is only these can decide if a gore am these chance or of these CONCERTS sovereignty of national sovereignty are fictitious there Is no economic intelevision program University in Che argued that the revolution should be based on the poor. To carry through the revolution the July 20 movement should sweep away the old state apparatus and get rid of the rule of the bourgeoisic. It meant a break with imperialism revolution proved that Guevara was right. In order to carry through the revolutionary aims of improving the lot of the poor, Castro's government broke up the large landholdings and distributed them; closed the casinos and brothels; cut electricity and paone carns in nair, naivee rents and made it illegal to own more