On the 15th anniversary of the first defeat of Yankee imperialism in the Americas, April 19, 1976, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz declared: “Our Marxist-Leninist party was truly born at Girón; from that date forward, membership in our Party is counted; from that date forward, socialism was forever cemented with the blood of our workers, peasants, and students; from that date forward, the destiny of the peoples of this continent, in the freedom and dignity that one of them won in the face of the aggression of the powerful empire that subjugated them all, would be different. Because, whatever anyone says, from Girón onward, all the peoples of the Americas became a little freer.”
The enemy’s policy is based on the formula of "divide and conquer." Cuba knows this from historical experience. It is no coincidence that José Martí, when assessing this factor as the cause of the failure of the Ten Years' War, declared that "no one took our sword from our hands; we let it fall ourselves." And to organize a necessary struggle, he founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party, which has been a constant source of inspiration for subsequent generations.
Inspired by Martí, by Fidel, the Communist Party of Cuba, Marxist and Leninist in character, the organized vanguard of the Cuban nation, based on its democratic character and permanent connection with the people, is the superior leading political force of society and the State, as expressed in the Constitution of the Republic, approved in referendum in 2019.
Among the Party's fundamental missions today are the preservation of unity, which we must cherish more than the apple of our eye, as instructed by Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution. Alongside this, we prioritize the economic battle, the struggle for peace, and ideological firmness, in a constant landscape of threats and aggression, to which we respond with creative resistance, without abandoning our principles and under the concept of the whole people's war.
