Fidel Castro: ‘Maurice Bishop was a true revolutionary’
Vol. 82/No. 33 - September 3, 2018![Maurice Bishop, left, and Fidel Castro at May Day rally in Cuba, 1980. “Grenada had become a true symbol of independence and progress in the Caribbean,” Fidel Castro said after Bishop was killed in counterrevolutionary coup. “No one could have foreseen the tragedy” to come.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BishCast_33page08-300x214.jpg)
Below is a speech by Fidel Castro given in Havana on Nov. 14, 1983, to more than 1 million people gathered to honor 24 Cuban volunteers who were killed during the U.S. invasion of Grenada. It’s included in Maurice Bishop…