Cuba's revolution has inspired humanity for 50 years

On New Years’ Day in 1959, the rebel army headed by Fidel Castro entered Havana after dictator Fulgencio Batista had ignominiously fled to the United States, and last minute attempts by the Eisenhower administration to replace Batista with some other pliant stooge had failed.

The revolutionaries moved quickly to implement a drastic program of land reform and a vast, innovative and extremely successful literacy campaign. In foreign policy, Cuba quickly aligned itself with those peoples who were fighting against imperialism and colonialism in Vietnam, Algeria and elsewhere. The anti-imperialist words and actions of Fidel and Che Guevara electrified the world, but enraged exploiters inside and outside Cuba. Gangsters, fascists and reactionaries of every type fled Cuba and attached themselves to the efforts of the CIA and the U.S. military to destroy the socialist revolution.

The enemies of the Cuban Revolution have tried everything including invasion, terrorism, sabotage and economic isolation through a vicious blockade to bring the Cubans to their knees. These brutal actions have caused much suffering in Cuba, but the Cuban people have emerged from all challenges with their heads held high. For this, they have won the admiration of millions around the world.

The defeat of the Cuban Revolution has been confidently predicted by its enemies over and over again. The fall of the Soviet Union and of socialism in Eastern Europe was a severe economic blow to Cuba, and the enemies of the Revolution began to make absurdly specific plans for a take-over “after Fidel falls.” But the Cuban Revolution has now outlived 10 U.S. presidencies (Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush).

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