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APPEAL
Let Us Mobilize in Defense of the Workers' State of Cuba!
Against the Imperialist Invasion!
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
Yankee imperialism has finally launched its armed attack against the Cuban Revolution. It has done so through its lackeys, armed to the teeth with the most modern weapons. The imperialist invaders set out from bases in the United States and in Guatemala, with all the aid, collaboration and protection of the US armed forces.
This brutal and direct imperialist aggression was set up and organized from Washington and the Pentagon. They are the same ones who assassinated Lumumbe and are trying to check and strangle the African revolution. They
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are the same ones who are committing provocations against nam, and organizing a counter-revolutionary world war against the US SR, the other workers' states, and the colenial revolution.
Cuba has been attacked by imperialism for having courageously carried the imperialist exploiters who for half a century have supported and financed sanguinary dictatorships in Cuba. Cuba has been attacked for having established the first workers state in Latin America, overthrowing capitalism and imperialism. Castro has just confirmed this by declaring: "What the North Americans cannot forgive us is our having made a socialist revolution right under their noses."
The whole Cuban people is on a war footing and deter- say in riport of the Call
mined to exterminate the invaders. A worldwide mobilization is immediately necessary in workers' state, in defense of revolutionary Cuba, to support by every means the Cuban masses fight against the imperialist invaders. It is necessary to organize and channel the mighty wave of indignation that is surging up from the masses of the world in face of this criminal imperialist aggression. The Fourth International calis on all workers peoples and anti-imperialist organizations, on workers' and imperialist parties, on workers' and peasants' federations and unions in Latin America, Africa, Asia, in the workers' states, in Europe, and in the United States itself, to organize this mass protest. Just as the Cuban Labor Federation made an appeal at the time of Lumumba's assassination, it is necessary to organize on a world scale strikes of pro-
Cuba. Let the toilers of all countries show by strike determination and decision to paralyze and defeat imperialist aggression!
Great demonstrations by all the workers' and anti-imperialist organizations must be organized, which include he whole exploited population, to demonstrate in front of the embassies of Yankee imperialism, and to demand that the governments of all countries break off relations to
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The sending of aid of every sort —weapons, etc. — to the Cuban workers' state must be organized. The must be raised that the governments countries struggling against imperialism offer to the Cuban government to send troops to defend the Cuban state! No dependence can be placed on the UN, agency me really is which has fully shown in the Congo what its
Troops and arms must be send directly! and anti-imperialist organization and parties immediately organize brigades, open recruting for volunteers to defend the Cuban Workers state!
The Fourth International calls on them to go out into the streets in all the cities of the world in defense
Labor organizations must set a boycott on ships, US labor organizations must prevent the sending of arms and supplies to the counter-revolutionary forces
It is necessary to connect up the mobilization for Cuba with the mass struggles in each country. America, in the colonial and semi-colonial countries, support for the Cuban workers' state must take the form of following Cuba's example: organizing the expropriation and distribution of the land to the peasants, occupying and expropriating the imperialist enterprises, and expelling imperialism.
The Cuban masses have mobilized to crush the invaders. The active support of the world's masses will transform the aggression into a thorough defeat for imperialism, and will spur, all over the worid, the advance of the forces of the socialist revolution.
For immediate and active support in every form for the Cuban workers' state against imperialist aggression!
For the crushing of the counter-revolutionary invasion!
Long live solidarity of the world's masses with revolutionary Cuba!
THE INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL IT April 1961. Text of cable filed I7 April br the Internationni Secretarict FIDEL CASTRO - PREMIERATO - LA HABANA - CUBA aggression.
FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT LIVIO MAITAN
Declaration of the Latin-