WOMEN OF LATIN AMERICA CRY, "ENOUGH!"
{Tricontinental Solidarity Week, celebrating the first anniversary of the Tricontinental Conference, was observed January 3-10 in Cuba as well as other areas in the world where support exists for the Organization of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL), the permanent body that was set up by the delegates at the conference last year. In Havana the Federation of Cuban Women organized a series of meetings with women of other Latin-American countries who were present for the occasion. At the conclusion they issued the following statement, which was published in the January 15 English-language edition of Granma, the official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist party of Cuba. ]
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We, the representatives of the militant women of Colombia, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Cuba and Venezuela meeting in Havana from January 4 to 6, for an interchange of experiences accumulated in the development of the national liberation movements of our respective countries, salute the first anniversary of the Conference of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America. This conference was of great importance to the Tricontinental unity of the national liberation movements in the development of a solid anti-imperialist united front. Its political resolution proclaims that in the face of the criminal alliance of the forces of reaction, the peoples of the three continents must respond with active, effective and militant solidarity, determined to counter each imperialist aggression with revolutionary action, and to continue the struggle to the final elimination of all forms of imperialist aggression with revolutionary action, and to continue the struggle to the final elin-— ination of all forms of imperialist and colonialist oppression. The profound revolutionary content of this statement indicates the path we must follow, opposing reactionary violence with revolutionary violence as the only means to put an end to the misery and exploitation of the people, eliminate the shameless intervention of imperialism and achieve true independence.
Women, in addition to the exploitation they suffer as ordinary members of capitalist society, are further humiliated because of their social position, the result of traditional bourgeois laws. They are affected as wives, mothers and citizens, and cannot remain isolated from the struggle of their people for national liberation, the only path that guarantees their children the right to a decent life. Their aspiration is to achieve their own rightful position as members of society and to make a contri-~ bution to establishing a just society and a true peace.
In the course of this meeting, we have learned more about the active and determined participation of women on various battlefronts, making their presence felt in mass organizations, in resistance in the cities and as heroic combatants in guerrilla fronts. It is clear to us that imperialism will use all forms of aggression on our continent in its attempt to maintain its political hegemony and criminal domination and exploitation. In the face of its increased aggressiveness, we are convinced that the peoples must respond with continental unity of their revolutionary forces and with Simultaneous and daring struggle in each country throughout our America. An anti-impe-
rialist front must be opened up in each one. The victorious example of the Cuban Revolution has shown the way and proved that this continent can achieve true liberation through: heroic struggle.
In Viet Nam, where the most pitiless aggression known to mankind is being waged, the criminal nature of imperialism is evident. So is its impotence in the face of the impetuous advance of the peoples' struggle. The most brutal methods of extermination have not made them falter, and they will not cease in their struggle for liberty until final victory is achieved.
The militancy of the Vietnamese women, whose role has been a vital one in this heroic war for national liberation waged by the people against imperialism, is an example of abnegation and valor. The women of Latin America have learned much from them, and we firmly resolve to enter massively into the liberating struggles of our peoples, making each one of our countries a battlefront against imperialism.
Women of Latin America: We cannot passively stand by while our children die of hunger and misery. Our maternal spirit is wounded by the shocking reality of a system that spurns the right to life and happiness.
Women of Latin America: We cry ENOUGH! before the murder of our loved ones, ENOUGH! before the repression of our peoples. The struggle for our freedom is the struggle against imperialism! .
Long live the solidarity of the women of Latin America!
Long live Tricontinental enti~imperialist unity!
Death to. imperialism!
TRUMAN AS A