REORGANIZATION OF THE CUBAN POR AND FIRST ISSUE OF "VOZ PROLETARIA"
In the city of Guantanamo, Oriente, Cuba, on the basis of the old Trotskyist movement, the Partido Obrero Revolucionario has been constituted and has asked the International Secretariat and the Latin American Bureau to it as the official section of the Fourth Inter-
Amongst the comrades who comprise the Guantanamo is a comrade who was a founder of the Cuban Cl, and who later on started the Left Opposition which, through a profound programmatic and ideological struggle, the best working class cadres, constituted in Partido Bolchevique Leninista, which then took the name of Partido Obrero Revolucionario (Revolutionary Workers during Separated from the international Trotskyist movement the entire period of the war and during the postwar revolutionary process, the POR suffered a series of to its isolation from the revolutionary process ripening amongst the Cuban people under the régime of Batista.
But if the party as such did not play a role, many militants (including most of the comrades who started the POR), participated actively in the armed struggle of the Cuban people. They were among the expeditionaries of the "Gramma," amongst the guerilla fighters of Sierra Maestra, and they helped to organize sabotage. They participated in the working out of the economic and political theses of the Movement of the 26th July; in the militant and political organizations, by conducting education courses, and in the illegal work. Many of them, because the in trade union positions, led workers actions of great importance, especially amongst the rail. way workers.
The POR opened its permanent headquarters in Guantanamo, with a successful public meeting. The first number
68 of Voz Proletaria (Proletarian Voice) has appeared, as the national organ of the POR. -The POR has strong links with the left wing of the in the trade unions and in the ment of the 26th July, and with the left militant cadres of the Movement of the 26th July organized in the section 'Acción y Sabotaje" who played a decisive and fundamental role in the struggle against Batista. In its principal leading circles, this vanguard belongs to the youth who, were expelled from the Party for "revisionism" "Trotskyism," and who, today, study
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL Trotskyist literature, defend it and read it over the radio, in courses, etc.
The Cuban POR, another new section of the Fourth International that will be present in the coming Sixth World Congress, has great perspectives of national development, rooted as it is in the workers and peasants novement, in the revolutionary youth and in the women's and housing movements. Thus, it has to play and has already begun to do so, a decisive vanguard role in the whole process of the Cuban Revolution.
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