Cuban revolutionaries, including Fidel Castro (far left) and Che Guevara (center), in Havana in 1960.
On this day in 1959, U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country following the victory of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement (M-26-7) at the Battle of Santa Clara, marking the successful conclusion of the Cuban Revolution.
The 26th of July Movement takes its name from the date of with a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, however, the movement bearing this name was not formally organized until the attackers were released from prison in 1955. Public resistance continued sporadically until November 1956, when 80 members of the M-26-7 returned from exile.
Soon after landing on the island, a separate revolutionary group, the "Directorio Revoluncionari Estudiantil" (DRE), unsuccessfully attempted an attack on the Presidential Palace in Havana.
Throughout 1957, armed resistance from groups such as the DRE and M-26-7 would escalate. After a failed offensive by the government against rebels in the summer of 1958, the rebels launched a major counter-offensive.
On December 28th, 1958, after a fraudulent election in favor of Batista, revolutionary forces reached the city of Santa Clara. Seizing equipment from an armored train intended to transport government reinforcements, the rebels quickly captured the city, prompting Batista to panic and flee to the Dominican Republic with a personal fortune of more than $300 million.
In the following days, revolutionary forces entered Havana with no resistance, and Castro established a provisional government. The 26th of July Movement later reformed along Marxist–Leninist lines, becoming the Communist Party of Cuba in October 1965.
Batista later settled in fascist Spain, dying there in 1973 at the age of 72.
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Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto "Ché" Guevara
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To the U.N. General Assembly, The Problem of Cuba and its Revolutionary Policy by Fidel Castro
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like I feel like I'm really having my internal contradiction heightened here because I feel like when I expect anything out of the socialist superpower it's a Nothing Ever Happens and the response is basically "go agitate about that in your backyard we're playing the long game here" but like American society is essentially specifically designed to be a fundamentally counterrevolutionary social scaffolding where yeah I can 'agitate' and yeah I can 'organize' but I don't know what’s going wrong because despite that it feels like no matter how much sand is poured the pile has never been even arguably present so I get self-critical of course because I must be erring somehow in my thoughts but a little part of me gets kinda mad and upset because it feels like at least in a ForPol sense what makes China different than a non-aligned social democracy like isn't socialism the struggle to liberate humanity I get there's a plan to gradually suffocate the Great Satan but does it matter at all if the Great Satan's death throes drag us all down with it but then I chastise myself for being chauvinistic but I don't know how long I can maintain that principle when we're deciding to offer up socialist projects as sacrifices to sate the beast when it feels we just kinda defaulted to a "long game" stance when they decapitated the Soviet Union and holy shit can anyone literally anyone treat Climate Change with the urgency it deserves like fuck fuck fuck goddamnit god damn America fuck
and ultimately I don't resolve this internally at all and I just feel frustrated and impotent despite making an effort to do actual boots-on-the-ground stuff in the past some months.
I'm simplifying this A LOT but this is mostly what I've learnt from xiaohongshu (not tagging in case they don't like it) but China has, as of now, an exports based economy, and most of the markets are US controlled so rocking the boat against the US could potentially fuck up China's economy big time, they have been moving into internal consumers but it takes time and has barely started under Xi. There's theorizing that another unintentional goal of the strikes on Venezuela was to drive off chinese investment in latam like how the US strikes in Iran drove off a lot of chinese investment in Iran which will create even more economic troubles for those regions. They'd need to have a military alliance capable of defending the interests like the USSR did and the USSR didn't even have an exports based economy.