![]() ![]() They are afraid of intervention by the United States to “protect foreign lives and property”. The demand will also be made to denounce the treaty between the two countries which gives the United States that right.īut the leaders of the new movement, the Junta, do not dare to say this openly. The situation indicates that the demand will be raised for the abrogation of the Platt Amendment in the Cuban Constitution giving the United States the right to intervene with military forces in Cuba. A student jumps to the roof of an automobile and denounces American intermeddling. The press reports that they signify their intention to fire on American marines should they be landed. What will the petty bourgeoisie demand in the Constituent Assembly? The petty bourgeois masses are inflamed with anti-imperialist sentiments. In the present situation that has been supplied by the petty bourgeoisie Under the slogan of the immediate convocation of a Constituent Assembly the petty bourgeoisie have erected a junta of five: four professors and a banker. The soldiers and sailors by themselves cannot constitute a regime. Throughout the army and navy the same selection is taking place. At the head of the army and navy stand non-commissioned officers. And now for the first time in the present revolution the soldiers and sailors are putting forward THEIR OWN LEADERS. Their first action was to arrest all commissioned officers. The rebellion of the military is a rebellion of the rank and file against the government carried, out against their own officers. The entire army and later the navy joined the movement. The soldiers of Camp Columbia, a Havana post, took to the radio and asked for the support of all enlisted men. The movement developed with remarkable speed and immediately swept beyond its initial objectives. This infuriated the anti-imperialist elements of the petty bourgeoisie.įinally the government signified its intention of cutting the soldiers’ pay. Not only had the De Cespedes regime organized Machado’s escape, but it revealed a great reluctance to satisfy the popular demand for the arrest and trial of all the agents of the former dictator and the removal of his supporters in mayoralties and governmental posts. On the other hand the De Cespedes regime revealed its sympathies with American imperialism and the Machadistas. This strike movement cut away the ground under the feet of the government. ![]() Here and there the military attempted to put down the strikes but the soldiers, for the most part, FRATERNIZED WITH THE WORKERS. ![]() These movements became ever deeper in character. Although the general strike came to an end with the return to work of the Havana bus drivers and later the stevedores and dock workers, strikes continued throughout the island in the cities and on the sugar plantations. The painless amputation of the De Cespedes regime is to be explained by the fact that it failed entirely to enlist the support of the workers. Quietly and with “dignity” it abandoned the seat of power, saying only that the responsibility for the “burden of government” rested on other shoulders. The De Cespedes regime offered no resistance. The coup d’etat was accomplished without bloodshed and with remarkable ease. The regime was not one month old when the military, the students and the ABC dissident wing blew it into eternity. De Cespedes and his concentration cabinet have been swept away. The Cuban situation is developing with hurricane speed. For the workers in the United States the central problem is the tight at home against intervention. At the first serious threat to the money bags of the Wall Street oligarchs the mask is stripped from the face of the “liberal” administration and it reacts like the most honored of the reactionary regimes in United States history. Marines are being mobilized – not for intervention ! – just to protect American lives and property. Warships are steaming full speed ahead to Cuban waters. The rapidly developing events in Cuba have found an answer in the “democratic” regime of Roosevelt. Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive. Sends Navy (September 1933)įrom The Militant, Vol. Hands Off Cuba! Soldiers and Students Oust Gov’t. ![]()
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