Publisher's Synopsis
Castro's speech at UN General Assembly by 1960 "Therefore, the National General Assembly of the Cuban People proclaims before America, and proclaims here before the world, the right of the peasants to the land; the right of the workers to the fruits of their labour; the right of the children to education: the right of the sick to medical care and hospitalization; the right of young people to work; the right of students to free vocational training and scientific education; the right of Negroes, and Indians to full human dignity; the right of women to civil, social and political equality; the right of the elderly to security in their old age; the right of intellectuals, artists and scientists so fight through their works for a better world; the right of States to nationalize imperialist monopolies, thus rescuing their national wealth and resources; the right of nations to their full sovereignty; the right of peoples to convert their military fortresses into schools, and to arm their workers - because in this we too have to be arms-conscious, to arm our people in defence against imperialist attacks - their peasants, their students, their intellectuals, Negroes, Indians, women, young people, old people, all the oppressed and exploited, so that they themselves can defend their rights and their destinies." Some people wanted to know what the policy of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba was. Very well, then, this is our policy ----- By Fidel Castro APPENDIX: Che Guevara's UN Speech
