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 ISA 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.
