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shoe worker and Secretary of the Socialist Party; and Juan Marinello, its President, university professor and one of the great writers in the Spanish language.

    The Popular Socialist Party took an active part in the struggle against the tyranny, aiding it in every way, and worked for a popular coalition government, for national independence, for democracy, economic development, social progress, and peace. 

    A strong contingent of party members and sympathizers belonged to the rebel forces and many of them distinguished themselves for their bravery and conduct.  The party stimulated a great number of mass actions by workers and peasants which served to undermine the dictatorship (protest movements against bombings, boycott actions in the elections, strikes, etc.).  It popularized the program of essential reforms, and made important contributions in spurring on the national mobilization against the Batista tyranny.

V. The PRESENT SITUATION AND THE OUTLOOK FOR THE REVOLUTION

    The military victory of the Cuban revolution was complete and total.   The liberation forces did not compromise with reaction but swept it out of power.   They destroyed the military and police power of the old regime and power passed into the hands of the rebel forces.  

    The rebel government is completely democratic and is subject to no force other than the rebel army and the revolutionary and social organizations which backed the liberation movement.

    The new government is free of any submission to American imperialism.   The social composition of those who compose the new government is primarily petty bourgeoisie, representatives of the small and middle bourgeoisie, professionals, rich farmers, and small landowners.

    The thesis of the Communists states that:

        "Such social forces, as is well known, although they do not bow to imperialism and resist it, do  not work in consistent struggle but waver in the face of economic and social measures that have to be adopted to carry forward the national liberation struggle, economic development and social progress. 

        "These forces limit the anti-imperialist and revolutionary orientation by their desire to maintain the capitalist system at all costs.   At the same time the social support of the new government rests not only on the classes and strata which compose it but also on the farmers and workers who have given their full support to the revolution and who have their own concrete demands for fulfilling the revolution."

    All this means that from the social viewpoint the new power rests on the popular forces (workers, farmers, petty bourgeoisis and the national industrial bourgeoisis.) "It cannot be termed a government of revolutionary and popular coalition." (From thesis of popular Socialist Party)

  MAIN COMMUNIST PROPOSALS FOR ADVANCEMENT OF THE REVOLUTION 

    The Popular Socialist Party supports the new government and seeks to maintain the utmost unity against native reaction and U.S. imperialism.   At the same time it strives to have the government represent more fully the coalition of forces which achieved the victory, particularly the farmers and proletariat.

   In its thesis issued on January 6 the Party is pressing to "defend the revolution and to enable it to advance,"

   As Joseph North writes in The Worker (February 15, 1959), the thesis "calls for strengthening a People's Army, built around those who took arms against Batista."  It urges a formal legislative confirmation of the new rights won by the people and guaranteeing those rights.  It makes concrete proposals for a democratic constitution.

   It proposes the immediate enactment of the agrarian  [[??]] written during the revolutionary struggle and further steps to "complete agrerign reform until we end latifundism -- the ownership of the vast plantations."   Toward that end and to improve the conditions of the farmers the thesis emphasizes the importance of the organization of a farmers movement.