Dear Comrades,
Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the fall in combat of the Heroic Guerrilla and his comrades not only solemnly marks the 5th Congress of the Communist Party in Cuba and reminds us all of the course that Fidel has fought for from the beginning. It also foreshadows the battles that will decide the fate of the 21st century.
New generations of revolutionary toilers - including those inside the most brutal and mighty imperialist power in history, the United States of America -will draw strength from the example of these heroic fighters and the lessons we have learned from the men and women who made the Cuban revolution possible and changed the course of history in our time.
The reality that will mark the century on whose threshold we stand is that of the growing historic weakness of U.S. imperialism - faced as it is around the world with ever increasing numbers of gravediggers of its own creation, and diminishing political barriers to unity in struggle amongst them. As that truth breaks through the surface of imperialist wealth and arrogance, the example of the combatants of Ñacahuazú, of the leadership of the Sierra Maestra, and of the worker-bolsheviks who established and defended the first socialist victory in our century will be emulated.
Our task is to organize, prepare, and fight - now.
Communist greetings,
Jack Barnes
National Secretary
for the National Committee
of the Socialist Workers Party