Communist Histories: Volume 1 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Communism, History, 20th Century, China, Cuba, PRC, USSR, Russia
ISBN: 9789380118376
Amazon: B01IZAESK4
Goodreads: 31559089
Publisher: LeftWord Books
Published: 2016-07-22T23:00:00+00:00

Close but No Cuban Cigar:

Cuba’s Coup and Communism’s Tragic Climax

Cuba’s ‘September 4th Revolution’ which began, to be precise, in August of 1933, fundamentally heightened the material significance of the ‘Negro Question’ in the hemisphere for Communists as disparate as Cuba and NYC. ‘Negroes with guns’ had became a real problem again for US and Cuban rulers whose political and economic wealth was concentrated in the Black Belt of Oriente, especially once these African Diasporic labourers in town and country began to speak of Soviets and act as Red guards. The period of militant and political upheaval from August 1933 through the rise of Realengo 18 in late 1934 marks a phenomenal if brief era of progress for the Red movement within Cuba and beyond, with the leadership of Black labourers loosely or directly affiliated with Communists being at the core of this progression. In addition, the movement underway in Cuba strengthened and intensified the commitment of Communists in the United States – and particularly in NYC – to the movement under way in Cuba.

The manner in which US Communists responded to the Cuban revolt is similar to how they reacted upon word of the Haitian uprising in 1929. As soon as news spread to Communists in NYC that their fellow class brethren in Cuba had been shot down at a protest in early August of 1933 by President Machado’s fast-eroding state apparatus, a demonstration called jointly by the LSNR, ILD and AIL was scheduled to take place in Harlem. President Machado’s days were numbered, as were the days of American Ambassador Sumner Welles, successor to Guggenheim, whose own early retirement would take place in mid-September. While the numbers of unknown deaths at the hands of Cuban police mounted, the Daily Worker offered an expose of the plight of Cuban labourers implicated in this massive general strike and ensuing coup which was then under way in Cuba, particularly highlighting the growth of the Communist movement led by the PCC and YCL and based in the industrial region surrounding Havana. Even before the seizure of power from the Grau regime on 4 September 1933, the Daily Worker reported,

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