Che Guevara Talks to Young People by Ernesto Che Guevara

Author:Ernesto Che Guevara
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
ISBN: 9780795707650
Publisher: Kwela
Published: 2016-03-07T05:00:00+00:00

Never forget, technology is a weapon

(To closing of First International Meeting of Architecture Students, 29 September 1963)

The First International Meeting of Architecture Students and Professors took place 27-29 September 1963, on the eve of the Seventh Congress of the International Union of Architects held in Havana.

The final plenary session of the meeting of students and professors, which Guevara addressed, approved a number of resolutions, including a denunciation of Washington’s indictment on 27 September of four US young people for “conspiring” to travel to Cuba. Three of the youth were among fifty-eight people who earlier that summer had visited the island challenging the ban on travel to Cuba imposed by the administration of US president John F. Kennedy. After a four-year fight against this antidemocratic move, the US Supreme Court declared the travel ban unconstitutional in 1967.

Another resolution called for “active participation” by university students in their respective countries “in the struggles headed by the popular masses for deep-going transformations” of society. True political independence, the document said, could only be wrested in a “struggle against imperialism – headed by Yankee imperialism – and against colonialism”, and would necessitate “replacing the decrepit socio-economic structure with one that meets the interests of the entire working people, as the Cuban Revolution has shown”.

As the congress of the International Union of Architects was concluding, the second major agrarian reform law, which confiscated holdings in excess of 165 acres, was enacted by the revolutionary government. This measure affected ten thousand capitalist farmers who owned 20 per cent of Cuba’s agricultural land and constituted an important base for counter-revolutionary activity organised by Washington. Through this measure, property relations on the land were brought into harmony with the state ownership of industry in Cuba, cementing the worker-farmer alliance that has been the backbone of the revolutionary regime from its inception.

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