Vol. 77/No. 12      April 1, 2013

Osvaldo Cabacho Martínez, Cuba’s ambassador to Greece, gave the opening talk. “The Cuban Revolution has resisted against the might of the merciless attacks of the empire to the north. It has resisted for over 54 years due to the popular character of the revolutionary process,” he said.

“In this book, Che poses the question of whether it is possible for the toilers to overcome the dog-eat-dog social relations that exist and values hammered into our consciousness under capitalism,” said Theodoros Misailides, one of the book’s translators, on behalf of the publisher Diethnes Vima. “These lessons are crucial for toilers in the cities and on the land today in this country as we face the brutal assaults of the bosses trying to resolve the crisis of capitalism.

“The Cuban Five who are today in the jails of the U.S. imperialists are a product of the ideas that Che Guevara fought for in Cuba, Africa and in Latin America,” added Misailides. “Winning their release will be a victory for them and for all those fighting against the misery being inflicted on working people in this country and elsewhere.”

Che explains that voluntary social labor carried out on a mass scale following the 1959 revolution in Cuba is “central to the development of a new consciousness in helping us move away from the idea that we only need to take care of ourselves and our families,” said Iraklis Dimitriades, a graduate student in Larissa and a member of the Cuban solidarity group Hasta La Victoria Siempre.

Vice Mayor Maria Kotakou and Chrysa Voulgaraki, director of the French Institute, as well as members of the local Greek Cuban Friendship Society attended.

Seventeen copies of Socialism and Man in Cuba and four copies of The Five Cuban Fighters in the Jails of the US were sold at the event, along with a half dozen other books on revolutionary politics.
 
 
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