PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENTS AND STATES
Continuing to pursue the road of intrigue and defamation, the Yugoslav press persists in its attacks on the revolutionary positions of Cuba. It is important to refute these arguments, Since they reveal conciliatory stands which it is correct and necessary to unmask.
- Let us analyze what they impute to us from the point of view of surrender of principles -- because that is what they represent ~~ and also from | a revolutionary viewpoint because that is what Cuba is defending.
The Yugoslav correspondent states in the Mexican magazine, "Siempre, "- that, "The editorial written by GRANMA, answering: simple. news items in the Yugoslav press and. not an ‘official editorial! . which was never published..
The leadership of the so-called "League of Yugoslav Communists!' may be cowardly enough not to accept formal responsibility for the:issues' which they have repeatedly raised, and continue to raise in their press. But the Communist Party of Cuba does not ._ employ such dishonest procedures. If they do not wish to appear.. "officially" in the polemic, that is a question that only concerns © the Yugoslav leaders. They may have their reasons for trying to hide their faces in this ridiculous. manner. For our part, we can assure. the Yugoslav: correspondent for Latin America that he is not impor- -, tant enough ‘to initiate a polemic with the Communist Party of: Guba. =
at should be ‘understood, then, that from the very beginning | we interpret this debate as a polemic between the leadership of our Party and--the. ‘so-called "League of Yugoslav Communists." No Right to Interfere
in Our Discussions with the leaders of China
The Yugoslav daily, "Politika," presents the discussion between Cuba and the leaders of the Communist Party of China as based on purely commercial differences. In addition, they stressed. that the attack on Yugoslav leaders was an attempt to-round out -~ our positicn in the polemic with the Communist Party of China. Our line is very clear. Our position is a firm one. We have no double ~ intentions. We have argued with the Chinese leaders for reasons of principles concerning the relationship that ought to exist between two Communist parties; two socialist States. We dispute with the ., leaders of the "League of Yugoslav. Communists" also on matters of .~ principle, but on another plane that has nothing to do with the ..relationship between Communist Parties, since there is no communist party in Yugoslavia, and the so-called "League of Yugoslav Com-., . munists" is neither a party nor is it communist. On this question vs we wish to answer. the Yugoslav spokesmen: "In our debate with the _.: Leaders of China, you have no right to interfere. There is a popular expression which is appropriate as:a reply to these accusations: 'No one has offered you a candle at this burial.'"
Traitors and Waverers Are Always Accusing Revolutionaries . of Being Adventurers, Lunatics,.and Deluded Dreamers
The Yugoslav press has attacked the stand of the Communist ~ Party of Cuba as being adventurist, and lacking in objectivity and realism. These accusations honor us. coming from the spokesmen of the so-called "League of Yugoslav Communists.
The accusation that we are adventurers, lacking in objectivity and realism is the same accusation that has been leveled throughout history against all revolutionary and combative parties and organizations.
The Russian bolsheviks represented by Lenin, were called adventurers who lacked objectivity and realism. Yet, today, one scarcely remembers the critics of Leninism and the undying memory of Lenin is present in the heart and acts of millions of workers all over the world.
- In the history of our country the "Mambi" liberation fighters were called lunatics and adventurers when they launched their war of liberation and defeated the European colonial power. Those who fought against imperialism in Cuba in the decades of the 1920's and 1930's were also termed deluded dreamers and adventurers. Julio Antonio Mella and Antonio Guiteras were the object of similar accusations. More recently, those of us who fought against the tyranny of Batista, were also called lunatics, adventurers and deluded dreamers. Nonetheless, history has demonstrated that the real deluded and foolish ones were our enemies. That is why the charges made by the spokesmen of the so-called "League of Yugoslav Communists" sound very familiar to us. We have become accustomed to hearing the same imputations throughout the whole history of our revolutionary movement and we are accustomed to replying to those charges in the most appropriate manner.
Aid to Those Who Fight Intervention Is a Contribution to Peaceful Coexistence
A Belgrade news reporter falsely accuses us of having ignored the resolution approved in the Tricontinental Conference concerning peaceful coexistence. We would like to make clear that this resolution was proposed by the Cuban Delegation. We elaborated it in accordance with our political criteria and we have no reason to deny this, since, as was made very clear in the resolution, the problem of coexistence refers exclusively to relations among the States of different social systems, great and small, and does not affect, as the Yugoslav columnist would wish, the struggle of the oppressed classes against their oppressors,. and of the exploited peoples against imperialism. _
Moreover, however, the resolution concerning coexistence had even deeper implications: it posed the thesis that when progressive and revolutionary states aid those