Workers of the world, unite!
CUBA YES, YANKEES NO!
Yankees go home!
The Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959 and resonated throughout Latin America. Why did it resonate? Because, breaking with decades of history, it showed that victory could be achieved through armed struggle. That is what resonated, and just 90 miles from the United States, right under its nose; it was a breath of fresh air throughout the Americas, and it had a profound impact on young people.
First, it is important to highlight the following historical facts:
From the beginning, Yankee imperialism tried to crush the Cuban Revolution through various means in an attempt to once again subject Cuba to its semi-colonial control. Then, against the fiercest enemy of the world's peoples, the Latin American masses mobilized in defense of the revolution on the rebel island, chanting the slogan: CUBA YES, YANKEES NO!
As part of understanding the historical events of the Cuban Revolution and its contribution to the development of the national liberation movement of oppressed nations, it is essential to remember that:
In 1961, U.S. imperialism intervened militarily with its mercenaries (“worms”) and was shamefully defeated at the Bay of Pigs. For the peoples of our American continent, it was a victory for history.
The Bay of Pigs followed the defeat of U.S. imperialism in Korea, from which they had to flee like rats in 1953 after the defeat at Luchon, and it foreshadowed their defeat in South Vietnam.
“In 1973, the U.S. had to accept its defeat; as the Yankees said then, Nixon, “Let us save face,” that was the whole problem they had, an honorable retreat, “don’t let them humiliate us,” that was all they asked for, the all-powerful Yankee imperialists.
Chairman Mao is right: “not everything that is big is powerful, nor should it be feared,” because Marxism is big, and that is all-powerful, and before that all the reactionaries should tremble because they will be swept away.” (Chairman Gonzalo, First Congress of the PCP, 1978).
Secondly, it is necessary to make it very clear that:
Cuba is also the story of an unfinished revolution; because the revolution would become increasingly subject to Soviet revisionism, becoming by the end of the 1960s a semi-colony of the revisionist USSR.
Let us recall that in the great debate within the international communist movement between Marxism and revisionism, the Castroist movement adopted a Third Way position.
Therefore, throughout the 1960s, Latin America suffered an erroneous and pernicious influence from petty-bourgeois Third Wayism. This Third Wayism of the petty bourgeoisie sought to replace the proletariat as the leading class of the revolution and wrest its hegemony from it, preaching the non-need for a Communist Party. Attempting to generalize the experience of the Cuban Revolution, they preached the so-called particularism of revolution in Latin America, furiously attacking Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought and proclaiming its obsolescence, as well as that of the universal laws of People's War.
All the attempts at Third Wayism ended, as was inevitable, in defeat. The PCP established "the peremptory obligation and necessity to systematize the experiences acquired to date in order to continue the struggle." And taking stock of the decade, it concluded that:
“The 1960s were a period of victory for Marxism-Leninism in Latin America and throughout the world.” (1)
After the bankruptcy of revisionism and the collapse of Soviet social-imperialism in December 1991, Cuba was left without a leader and with acute existential problems. Its current situation stems from that event.
Cuba suffers from continued Yankee imperialist aggression for seventy years, marked by terrorist attacks, sabotage, and assassination attempts against its leaders, such as those carried out against Fidel Castro and others. Six decades of relentless economic blockade.
Currently, the United States government, led by the genocidal Trump, while claiming deceitful successes in its war of aggression against Venezuela and Latin America, seeks to capitalize on this partial and relative advantage in the Caribbean to attack Cuba. Its immediate objective is regime change, replacing it with one subject to its direct administration, a government under its protectorate, similar to that established in Venezuela under the Rodríguez brothers. Thus, the Yankee imperialists seek to use Cuba's strength to impose their will on South America, implementing their sinister plan of political, economic, and military occupation of our continent as a foundation for maintaining their global hegemony (2).
Yankee imperialism seeks to achieve its objective of regime change by brandishing the threat of a direct attack against the island, based on the deployment of its powerful military force in the region under the name of Operation Southern Spear (3). However, fearing that this could cost it another humiliating defeat, it is attempting to provoke internal subversion through genocide, what they call "the final economic strangulation," according to the imperialist media themselves. We quote:
"The decision to punish the supply of oil to the island with tariffs exacerbates the economic and social strangulation.
The strangulation of oil to the island worsened at the beginning of the year with the United States' military attack on Venezuela, its main supplier for decades. President Donald Trump has tightened the screws even further by announcing that he will punish with tariffs anyone who sells or supplies oil to the island. The noose around the neck of Cubans is tightening ever more, as they live mired in a profound structural crisis, where almost the only possible objective is survival."
Trying to reinforce the military encirclement of the island within the framework of Operation Southern Spear, part of the powerful US naval fleet has been deployed to Haiti under the pretext of combating drug trafficking (the “narco-boats”).
Therefore, it is necessary to briefly address the militarization of politics. In the US, this has a long history in both its domestic and foreign policy.
Domestically, the Trump administration uses militarization in the fight against “illegal” immigration, organized crime, drug trafficking, etc., employing military and police forces under its direct control for the absolute centralization of power in its hands as a representative of its imperialist faction (PR), seeking to subjugate state governments under governors from the Democratic Party faction and, most importantly, to wage war against the people for its foreign policy.
The verbal threats, violent rhetoric, and brutal and excessive use of force by Trump, other officials in his administration, and the repressive forces under his central control are not signs of strength but of weakness. Since the US is an immense country, Trump does not have sufficient forces to overcome the resistance of his rivals or of the American proletariat and people throughout its vast territory. He resorts to extreme violence in some states to subdue them through terror, hoping to force others to submit to him, but if he cannot overcome resistance in these places, he retreats. He fails only to try again later, and thus he will go from failure to failure both in his own country and in the world.
In their Defense Strategy of the War Department (January 24, 2026), they themselves confess their limitation of forces:
“In this approach, it is essential to be realistic about the magnitude of the threats we face and the resources available to address them. (...) Instead, the Department will prioritize the most significant, serious, and dangerous threats to American interests. We will restore the war philosophy and rebuild the joint force so that America’s enemies will never doubt our resolve or ability to respond decisively to these threats.”
With this “war philosophy,” they seek to impose their hegemonic imperialist order both domestically and internationally.
Regarding Latin America, U.S. imperialism uses the militarization of the fight against drug trafficking, “narco-terrorism,” organized crime, the illegal economy, etc., forcing the region’s governments to sign agreements and conventions on these matters using the bland rhetoric of “building cooperative capacity and improving interoperability.” Its objective is to coordinate the work of national security forces internationally, subordinated, directly or indirectly, to Washington's directives." (4)
In 2012, the US had "a corridor stretching from Colombia to Mexico, passing through Central America." Any hint of independence by the region's governments is seen as a threat to its interventionist policy.
Assistance to these subservient armed forces takes the form of support for anti-narcotics initiatives, such as the Central American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI), which began in 2008 following the Mérida Initiative and continued until 2014, providing assistance, equipment, and training to Central American police and military forces.
Mexico falls under the jurisdiction of the US Northern Command, but south of its borders lies the Southern Command, which operates from a $400 million facility just west of Miami, responsible for all US military activities in Central and South America.
Finally we say:
Today we revive the old slogan, “CUBA YES, YANKEES NO!”, to support the Cuban people’s struggle against imperialist aggression, which unfolds according to its military doctrine of “peace through strength”—that is, imposing its imperialist interests (those of the Yankee financial oligarchy) through war or the credible threat of its use.
This is a fitting slogan to confront the imperialist plan to hegemonize the Caribbean in order to advance its plan of political, economic, and military occupation of Latin America. As was once said, and is truer today, the Yankee imperialists intend to use Cuba’s strength to overwhelm all of America. With this slogan, our peoples unite with Cuba’s cause in defense of its independence, its formal sovereignty, on its path to complete independence, which it will only achieve by carrying the revolution through to the end.
And, we quote the following from Chairman Gonzalo's speech of September 24, 1992:
“All that they told us, the empty and foolish chatter of the famous 'new stage of peace,' what has become of it? What about Yugoslavia? What about other places? Everything was politicized; that's a lie. Today, the reality is this: the same combatants of World Wars I and II are generating, are preparing for World War III. We must know this, and we, as children of an oppressed country, are part of the spoils! We cannot allow it! Enough of imperialist exploitation! We must put an end to them! We are from the Third World, and the Third World is the base of the world proletarian revolution, on one condition: that the Communist Parties raise the banner and lead it. That is what must be done!”
LONG LIVE PEOPLE'S WAR!
PERU PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT
February 2026
NOTES:
(1) LATIN AMERICA: PEOPLE'S WAR, Great Victories, Bright Perspective, Red Flag, Number 42, May 1970, Central Committee, Communist Party of Peru.
(2) The global hegemonic and counterrevolutionary plan, implemented by the government of the arch-reactionary and genocidal Trump, dates back to the beginning of the last decade of the last century. This plan is readjusted by each new Yankee government according to the development of the class struggle in the country itself and in the world and is published as the National Defense Strategy (National Defense Strategy or "NDS"), the new one is from November 2025; whose military doctrine or strategy is called the National Security Strategy (NSS), published on January 24, 2026 by the United States Department of War.
The plan in its strategic objectives and general guidelines was established during the Bush Sr. government (198-92), when without a world war Soviet revisionism collapsed, the USSR collapsed and its spheres of influence entered into a new distribution in the midst of imperialist collusion and struggle (December 1991) and Yankee imperialism became the sole hegemonic superpower. Still in the final part of the process of definitive decomposition of social-imperialism, the previous year, President Gonzalo, pointed out in a precise and forceful way, what imperialist strategists had established for their plan of world domination in the coming century:
"The United States and Latin America, its great area. Bush Initiative for Latin America, unite Mexico, the axis, to the unity of the US and Canada to hegemonize over the Caribbean, extend to South America, controlling more and more Central America, thus preparing for the future in the Pacific basin." (II Plenary Session of the Centra Committee (August 1990).
(3) Operation “Southern Spear” was announced in November by Hegseth and is part of the deployment of US warships and military aircraft to Latin America. According to Washington, this operation aims to combat vessels used for drug trafficking by cartels defined as “narcoterrorists.”
(4) Drug War Capitalism, AK Press, December 2014), in Spanish as Anti-Drug Capitalism, A War Against the People, Dawn Marie Paley, Community Society for Strategic Studies Freedom Under Words, 2018 Mexico.
