As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the… - Fidel Castro

In consequence, the National General Assembly of the People of Cuba proclaims before America: <p>the right of peasants to land;</p> <p>the right of the worker to the fruit of his labor;</p> <p>the right of children to receive education;</p> <p>the right of the sick to receive medical and hospital care;</p> <p>the right of the young to work;</p> <p>the right of students to receive free instruction, practical and scientific;</p> <p>the right of Negroes and Indians to 'a full measure of human dignity';</p> <p>the right of woman to civil, social and political equality;</p> <p>the right of the aged to secure old age;</p> <p>the right of intellectuals, artists and scientists to fight through their work for a better world;</p> <p>the right of States to nationalize imperialist monopolies as a means of recovering national wealth and resources;</p> <p>the right of countries to engage freely in trade with all other countries of the world;</p> <p>the right of nations to full sovereignty;</p> <p>the right of people to convert their fortresses into schools and to arm their workers, peasants, students, intellectuals, Negroes, Indians, women, the young, the old, all the oppressed and exploited; that they may better defend, with their own hands, their rights and their future.</p>

What is the history of Cuba but the history of Latin America? And what is the history of Latin America but the history of Asia, Africa and Oceania? And what is the history of all these peoples but the history of the most pitiless and cruel exploitation by imperialism throughout the world? At the end of the last and the beginning of the present century a handful of economically developed nations had finished partitioning the world among themselves, subjecting to its economic and political domination two-thirds of humanity, which was thus forced to work for the ruling classes of the economically advanced capitalist countries.

The figure of Lenin is a giant in history and his luminous ideas represents the common heritage of revolutionary fighters in every corner of the Earth.