CUBANS ANSWER BELGRADE
[As indicated in the editorial note on page 28, the following editorial in reply to the Yugoslav attack against the Tricontinental Conference has been translated from the February 14 issue of Granma.
[While the Cuban reply - is aimed directly at the Yugoslavs, it also appears to: have in mind other protagonists Of the line of "peaceful coexistence. : a Do.
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“Borba, the official organ of the so- called League of Yugoslav Communists” -- one of whose slanderous editorials was printed in yesterday's Granma -- and other publications in that:country have in. recent weeks been attacking Cuba and the revolutionary accords approved at the Tricontinental Conference. This constitutes an attack at the same time against the revolutionary road of the peoples of Latin America. We ‘must spend a. great :deal of time and energy fight-
-ing the main enemy which is Yankee imperialism; but Cuba cannot disregard this series of attacks against its political. positions, against _the accords of the Tricontinental Conference, and the even less toler- “able. crude campaign against the Latin-American revolutionary movement carried: on by those whose acts, intrigués and propaganda cunningly ‘serve this-main enemy. These systematic attacks reveal the anger of ' the Yugoslav political leadership over the Cuban position, opposing the attempt of the so-called League of Yugoslav. Communists to send a representative as an. observer - to the Tricontinental Conference.
There are many reasons “why the so-called: League of Yugoslav Communists had no right to participate in an event. like the Tricontinental Conference. But withott going to the root of the question, When this point was discussed in Cairo in the International Preparatory, Committee, Cuba, based its” opposition on a very concrete reason:
~The Yugoslav’ government has‘ in actuality supported. the attempts of the imperialists in-trying to compel the Democratic Republic: of Viétnam to negotiate without the condition being previously met. of withdrawing the Yankee troops now on Vietnamese soil. As is well known, this is in flagrant violation of the Geneva agreement and in open contradiction to the position of the Democratic Republic of _ Vietnam and the National Liberation Front. Furthermore in’no document or declaration has the Yugoslav: government’ condemned. the’ imperialist attacks on the people of south Vietnam or demanded strict. observance of the Geneva agreement. o. .
The subsequent reaction of the Yugoslav jress, which expresses the anger felt over the attitude of Cuba and: the International: Preparatory Committee and which opposes the line approved unanimously by the conference, demonstrates the correctness of the decisions of. the International Preparatory Committee - and the firm position taken: by © our country. ; a ‘Borba: Slandérs the Venezuelan Communists
The growth of the guerrilla struggle in Venezuela was clearly shown at the Tricontinental Conference; some of its glorious fight- ‘ers, members of the Communist party, of the MIR [Movimiento de ‘Izquierda Revolucionaria] and the FALN [Fuerzas Amedos de Liberacién Nacional] were present. Nonetheléss, Borba makes an insinuation, Slanderously claiming that the Communist p party of Venezuela ‘has renounced the guerrilla struggle.
This attitude is not strange, since the Yugoslav government, on more than one occasion, has proposed that the puppet regimes, first of Rémulo Betancourt and then of Rail Leoni, tyrants over the Venezuelan people and familiar instruments of imperialism in its) maneuvers against: Cuba, be invited to the conferences of unaligned countries. For the government of Yugoslavia, the Venezuelan tyranny, which murders workers and peasants, set up and maintained by imperialism, is not "aligned." While the blood of the fighters of this sister people continues to flow in the mountains and cities. and: the ‘heroic struggle of its guerrillas grows stronger, the Yugoslav leaders keep “up very close political ‘and commercial relations with the mortal ~
_-eneny of the Venezuelan Peoples with the reactionary, pro-imperialist "government of Leoni. a
. Borba makes another insimuation when it claims that some Latin- American: n Communist. parties are in disagreement with the resolutions and-the line adopted at the conference. At bottom, what irritates the Yugoslav leaders is the. firm unity that was gained and the impressive advance of the most militant and radical. revolutionary position. The militant. unity and consciousness. of the. revolutionary organizations of Latin America are stronger than ever. This was also clearly to be seen at. the conference.’ . ae —_ We Reject Unity. with the Puppets of. the | ‘Imperialists.
Borba. maliciously seeks. ‘to prove ‘that the Tridontinental Conference did not achieve positive results by noting and emphasizing the negative reactions of the pro-imperialist governments of Latin America. The veiled insinuations.of the. journal of the so-called League of Yugoslav Communists .can.only reflect a crawling position of submission to imperialism. ae
We must tell Borba. that, on the ‘contrary, ‘the obvious proof — - that. the Tricontinental ‘Conference achieved its objectives lies precisely in the fact that. the oligarchies and imperialisn . through | their reactionary press and through their ruling camarillas have felt com— pelled to do something about its revolutionary results. —_
With real malice Borba quotes "certain liberal bourgeois journals" which hold, aceording to the Yugoslav daily, that the outcome of ‘the conference “impeded the.principled struggle of the broad front of: ‘progressive Latin-American forces." That is, in Borba's . definitive judgment ,..Latin-American governments which are in reality puppets of imperialism, which oppose the Cuban Revolution, which exploit their people, and which support or resign themselves to the brutal Yankee military intervention. in. Santo. Domingo, form a part of this "broad front. re - Let. Borba ‘know ‘that a. ‘proad front: ‘of the genuine revolutionary and progressive forces of Latin, America is not achieved by crawl- .ing before imperialism, through deals with governments that are puppets of imperialism. On the contrary, this.broad front. is attained. by revolutionary means, as the Cuban Revolution demonstrates ina. clear and definitive way. wey
.. Borba calls.a government like the one in Uruguay "liberal" -a government that surrendered to the dictates of Yankee imperialisn, broke:.diplomatic and.commercial relations with Cuba, and that has._ persecuted. the people, repressing strikes, attacking unions and. universities: and. hurling police against; the students and workers. os ‘For. Borba a proof of the collapse, of . the. ‘conference or its ‘failure to attain its objectives. is that the government of Peru, which has carried out a cruel.repression against. the people. and in . whose: territory guerrillas are fighting heroically to. shake off: the oppression of imperialism and the oligarchies,. presented a notorious-
ly cynical denunciation. ¥o the. OAS “accusing Cuba and the conference.
Borba considérs ita negative result of the conference that the puppet governments belonging to the OAS, in fact, the Yankee Ministry of Colonies,.held a meeting and sent a cynical -and shameless document to the président of the Security. Council.
The Yugoslav journal would have liked the revolutionary foreés of Asia, Africa, and Latin America to bow to the imperialists and their lackeys. This was not, however, the > objective of the Tricontinental Conference. . The. “Yugoslav Positions _ . - Are Opposed to the Second. Declaration of Havana
“These Yugoslav positions are radically opposed to the “Lane: proclaimed and maintained by Cuba in the Second Declaration ‘of + Havana, which says in this respect: '
"Th. ‘the. antifeudal and | anti-imperialist struggle it is -possibie to rally the majority of the’ people resolutely ‘behind freedom: goals that unite the determination of the working class, the peasants, “the intellectual workers, the petty bourgeoisie and the most progressive layers of the national bourgeoisie. These sectors constitute the immense majority of the population, combining great social forces capable of sweeping out imperialist domination and feudal reaction."
Leoni, Belatinde, the Government Council of Uruguay, and the rest of the camarillas that have sold out to Yankee imperialism will never represent these forces. They will always be in the service of the imperialists, the same as their Borba apologists. The immense majority of the revolutionary forces and organizations were represented at the conference: the National: Liberation Front of Venezuela, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Guatemala, the revolutionary guerrilla movements. of Peru and Colombia, the heroic people of Santo Domingo who today are fighting foreign intervention’ and the occupation of their country by imperialist troops, the Left Liberation Front of Uruguay, FRAP (Frente Revolucionario de Accién Popular] of Chile and the fighting organizations of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, British Guiana, Jamaica, Brazil, Guadalupe, French Guiana, Haiti, Martinique, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Trinidad-Tobago.
At the conference, Cuba sought and won a united front of the national liberation movements of Asia, Africa and Latin America and of all the progressive forces ready to fight against imperialism. This means solidarity of the revolutionary movements in sweeping away the oligarchies, imperialism, colonialism and neocolonialisn.
The Only Ones Who Can Make the Revolution in This Continent, Are Going To Do It
But in addition to this, the Declaration of Havana, whose essential postulates with respect to the struggle in Latin America received the vigorous support of the revolutionary movements of the
three continents represented at the conference, is very clear and ~ explicit. concerning the road which -the subjugated peoples of this continent will follow in shaking off the imperialist. yoke.
The initiative, which received ‘unanimous support, to establish the Latin-American Solidarity Organization came from the hearts of © the revolutionary representatives of the continent.
‘Borba seeks in vain to toll’ the bell for the revolutionary theses. It seeks in vain to frighten us with the Holy Alliance between the reactionary gorillas (among whom are its Leonis, its Beltrans, its Uruguayan rulers and company) and Yankee imperialism. The only ones who can make the revolution on this continent. are go-. ing to make it; and in somé countries: like Venezuela, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru and Santo. Domingo they are already struggling heroically and without the least sign. of demoralization. No one can divert them from this road, and no force in the world can halt their impetuous advance; because now more than ever "this great mass of ~— humanity has said, ‘Enough! ! and has begun to march. And they will not halt in their. giant | march until they conquer genuine independence." . , ;
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