Martí's Party, the essence of the Cuban Revolution

The Communist Party of Cuba on the anniversary of the founding of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (translated from the Spanish):

"(...) To achieve, with the united efforts of all men of good will, the absolute independence of the Island of Cuba, and to promote and assist that of Puerto Rico," the Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC) was born on April 10, 1892.

For many students of history, the founding of the PRC was the culmination in exile of José Martí's organizational work for the Necessary War. At that time the Apostle was only 39 years old.

In order to propose the new Party as the highest leadership body of the Revolution that was being forged, Martí conceived of a structure attached to the principles of independence with methods aimed at respecting democracy. The PRC, as stated in its founding document, established the main basis of "a new people and sincere democracy", with methods that banished authoritarian practices in the political and economic spheres.

On the other hand, the newspaper "Patria" was published in New York on March 14, 1892, and this was another step of transcendental importance in the fulfillment of the actions aimed at achieving unification in the process of the formation of the new Party.

The role of the Cuban Revolutionary Party as a catalyst of forces in the conception, organization and forging of unity for the Revolution is undeniable; but the political organization that Martí had dreamed of was dissolved in 1898, just at the end of the Necessary War and with the U.S. intervention on the island.

At this stage and as history shows, the neocolonial program passed to a stage of dissolution of all the representative organs of the independence movement, mainly the Liberation Army and the Cuban Revolutionary Party, as an indispensable step for establishing a colony in Cuba under the false pretense of an independent republic.

From the Party of Martí to that of Mella and Carlos Baliño, common themes can be glimpsed as the latter, the First Communist Party of Cuba, took the main paradigms that the Apostle had proposed in the construction of a legitimate organization for Cubans.

Later, Fidel and the Cuban revolutionaries conceptualized the Communist Party of Cuba as the leader of Cuban socialist society. The two paradigms of these more than 150 years of struggle were united: the struggle for independence and the struggle for social revolution.