The July 26, 1953, Moncada attack
When Fidel announced a new stage in the Cuban Revolution
Today marks the sixty-ninth anniversary of the attack, led by Fidel Castro, on the Moncada military barracks. In conjunction with the subsequent clandestine dissemination of “History Will Absolve Me,” the Moncada attack launched a new stage in the Cuban revolution, which had been initiated on October 10, 1868. In commemoration of the historic event, I today republish my June 22, 2021, commentary, “Cuba and the neocolonial world-system: An unseen, noble quest for sovereignty.”
In “From colonialism to neocolonialism,” June 15, 2021, I described the characteristics of neocolonialism; and in “Neocolonialism and Cuba: The structures of a neocolonial republic,” June 18, 2021, I illustrated the phenomenon of neocolonialism with the case of Cuba. Today, my intention is to show that Fidel Castro, whose revolutionary consciousness was formed in the context of the Cuban neocolonial situation and the Cuban and Latin American anti-imperi…