Celebrating the Homecoming of Ernesto Che Guevara's Reinforcement Brigade to Cuba

by Waters, Mary-Alice; Ben Bella, Ahmed; Castro, Fidel

• ISBN13: 9780873488723
• ISBN10: 0873488725
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Pathfinder Pr

Summary

-- International conference in Havana on "Socialism on the threshold of the 21st century"
-- Twelve-part series "Che Guevara and the Cuban revolution"; articles and interviews by fellow revolutionists who knew and worked with Che
-- Fifth congress of the Communist Party of Cuba
-- Cuban generals speak out.

Table of Contents

Preface	3	(4)
PART I
Communist Party of Cuba hosts forum on road to world struggle for socialism	7	(6)
Jack Barnes
Mary-Alice Waters
Cuban party congress strenghtens socialist course of revolution	13	(6)
Martin Koppel
Mary-Alice Waters
Greetings from the Socialist Workers Party National Committee to the Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba	19	(1)
Jack Barnes
Cuban generals discuss record of Revolutionary Armed Forces	20	(9)
Argiris Malapanis
Mary-Alice Waters
PART II
`I see Che and his men as reinforcements, as a detachment of invincible combatants'	29	(3)
Fidel Castro
`Che continues to instill fear in the oppressors'	32	(5)
Ricardo Alarcon
Central goal of socialism is the creation of new man	37	(4)
Orlando Borrego
Ariel Terrero
Guevara: `Human beings are no longer beasts of burden'	41	(5)
Enrique Oltuski
`This was the work of a giant'	46	(3)
Arturo Guzman
Julio Garcia Luis
`Che Guevara was energetically devoted to anti-imperialist solidarity'	49	(13)
Manuel Pineiro
Luis Suarez Salazar
Ivette Suazo
Ana Maria Pellon
`I am the daughter of an internationalist'	62	(2)
Aleida Guevara March
Mario Jorge Munoz
`Urbano' speaks on experiences with Che in Bolivia	64	(3)
Leonardo Tamayo
Che in the Congo: `a return to our internationalist roots'	67	(3)
Ernesto Montero Acuna
Pombo speaks on Che's leadership in Africa	70	(5)
Harry Villegas
Che Guevara, Cuba, and the Algerian revolution	75
Almed Ben Bella