Cuban revolutionaries, including Fidel Castro (far left) and Che Guevara (center), in Havana in 1960.
On this day in 1959, U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country following the victory of Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement (M-26-7) at the Battle of Santa Clara, marking the successful conclusion of the Cuban Revolution.
The 26th of July Movement takes its name from the date of with a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, however, the movement bearing this name was not formally organized until the attackers were released from prison in 1955. Public resistance continued sporadically until November 1956, when 80 members of the M-26-7 returned from exile.
Soon after landing on the island, a separate revolutionary group, the “Directorio Revoluncionari Estudiantil” (DRE), unsuccessfully attempted an attack on the Presidential Palace in Havana.
Throughout 1957, armed resistance from groups such as the DRE and M-26-7 would escalate. After a failed offensive by the government against rebels in the summer of 1958, the rebels launched a major counter-offensive.
On December 28th, 1958, after a fraudulent election in favor of Batista, revolutionary forces reached the city of Santa Clara. Seizing equipment from an armored train intended to transport government reinforcements, the rebels quickly captured the city, prompting Batista to panic and flee to the Dominican Republic with a personal fortune of more than $300 million.
In the following days, revolutionary forces entered Havana with no resistance, and Castro established a provisional government. The 26th of July Movement later reformed along Marxist–Leninist lines, becoming the Communist Party of Cuba in October 1965.
Batista later settled in fascist Spain, dying there in 1973 at the age of 72.
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Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto “Ché” Guevara
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To the U.N. General Assembly, The Problem of Cuba and its Revolutionary Policy by Fidel Castro
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one of my mom’s co-workers and work friend got kidnapped by ICE and tortured
she is now back in el salvador and relatively safe. she verified all the things i’ve heard to be true (stress positions, forced to sit in human waste, inedible food, little water)
my mom has been a pretty typical democrat boomer/x cusper centrist lib, wavering towards progressivism sometimes, but is now declaring herself fully down with socialism (which to her is demsoc but it’s a start)
i dunno just wanted to share.
so are we gonna see another deebeezero post about this megathread this week about the ebil tankies worshiping the monsters that overthrew the poor smol bean bautista?
THE JOB HUNT IS FINALLY OVER! AFTER 3 MONTHS OF JOB HUNTING, I FINALLY GOT ACCEPTED TO WORK FAST FOOD.
They cant make me hate em
Me upon learning there is a rumor Jordan Peterson and JK Rowling lost it because of black mold getting to them.
“Dude….it’s like…we’re living in…a black mold future!”
Fuck I woke up to some terrible news
Bro I love my fucking cat so much. He curled up next to me, and tilted his head straight up to look at me backwards if that makes sense. He kept staring and I gave him good neck scritches, then he stretched out his cute lil arm and pawed at my glasses a bunch. So cute I’m gonna cry
Ffs I’m supposed to sit here and read about neoliberalism for an exam at uni. Endless drivel about how everything bad, but nothing we can do. And meanwhile the greatest Satan on Earth just destroys everything that is hopeful, anyone who would resist.
Yeah yeah, one foot in front of the other. Back to work on Monday, line must go up. Just deepening the congitive dissonance, maybe I’ll go watch a movie and treat myself to a nice dinner while the world burns. Maybe eat some colonialist treats to silence this knot in my stomach that hurts so much, hurts so fucking much.
Trust the plan
Especially in light of recent events, Death to America
Well it’s always the right time to say Death to America, nevermind
My friend bought a new phone that boasts a 100x zoom camera but when you try to use it it just gives you an AI guess of what you’re looking at lol
I have a confession to make
CW: Heresy
I still haven’t played Disco Elysium
ugh im getting so pissed off by seeing people say “venezuelans are happy” but they’re talking about ones living in america. fuck off dude, of course the people with the resources to flee a heavily sanctioned country and live in america of all places are going to be happy, i don’t think they’re really representative of the people who actually live in the damn place
You can tell things are going bad for me because I start posting more
