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.
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto “Ché” Guevara
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto “Ché” Guevara
History Will Absolve Me by Fidel Castro
To the U.N. General Assembly, The Problem of Cuba and its Revolutionary Policy by Fidel Castro
r/Communism Cuba and Fidel Castro Megathread
r/Communism Another Cuba and Fidel Megathread
lecture from Michael Parenti about Cuba
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I went vegan because of boyposting on here.
A few years ago I posted something about cute boys in a mega, at the time wasn’t sure which mega it was. So I said “idk if it can go in this mega but…” Then I got a reply “everything’s allowed in the vegan mega!”
ohI felt bad about posting in the vegan mega when I wasn’t vegan, I looked up Marxist vegan philosophy and came across a great essay that pointed out the inadequacies of other vegan philosophies and then laid out a Marxist one, which convinced me, and have been vegan ever since
Closing the site as a joke wasn’t okay
me after completing the least hard task I have to doi had a dream last night to where
Biggs had died just a few days ago and when I went to check on him he alive and totally fine. He climbed up on my shoulder and sniffed my neck a bunch. It was really nice. I miss my little manVisiting Hexbear has become so automatic that I quickly type in hexbear.net just a nanosecond before I realize it’s not the site I wanted to visit at all. But it’s too late because I already pressed enter.
[CW: Mental health]
Not having a particularly good mental health day. I’m usually a pretty positive person, but sometimes I will get in a sadness rut and feel like nothing matters and the world is ending. Funny, this usually happens around once a mont- ooooooooh
Homeless goes up by a fifth in one year
worst sales for holidays
2024 had an infamously bad job market. Might as well have been a year-long hiring freeze.
Literal articles telling us to skip breakfast, that we need to reduce our already abysmal quality of life.
If you’re lucky enough to have a job, good luck having any savings
Record high credit card debt.
Somehow a good economy, and all these woes will just magically go away now that the president as a friendly red tie instead of a scary blue tie.
crushposting
I love my wife
I’ve posted about this before but God why does everything have to suck so much??? You’ve got 60-80 years to experience everything you’ll ever experience and all this system cares about is exploiting you, making you pay more and more rent and sucking the life out of literally everything that exists
man why is it so fucking difficult to find real-life friends who share your interests? like there’s just too much media to be consumed these days. Like I can find people who are into movies, books or music no problem, but there are so many niches in each of those that it’s impossible to find anyone to actually talk to about these things in any kind of depth. Last year I was in a kind of movie club with four other people who are also fairly deep into movies, and I basically had to give up on having any influence on what movies we’d watch because they’d basically always be too “out there” for me to get the majority of them invested in actually watching them. With music its probably easiest because you can just put whatever your talking about on, but even then everyone seems to have their own niche of whatever they listen to, and if you can ever get them to listen to anything it’s at most one or two tracks of something. It’s probably worst with books, where the investment is just so high. Like sure you’ll get someone to go “oh i always meant to read that” but then they have their own list of books to read which is feet long and you’ll both die before you ever read the same things.
I guess this is why so many people are so deep into pop culture. If you like harry potter or star wars, you’ll always find someone to talk about it at every party, no problem.
This year is not off to a good start. This morning, my family’s cat, Paul, passed away of aortic clots. I loved that cat, he was so friendly…
Saw a poster on Twitter seemingly genuinely worried that referring to someone as a Philistine was a slur. I dunno man, the Philistines were an Ancient Canaanite people that died out like 2500 years ago. They aren’t around to insult anymore. And if you look at its etymology into modern English you could object to it being elitist or classist but it’s less of a slur than hillbilly.
Worrying about slights against peoples who died out right at the start of antiquity is actually too woke for me.
