After years hidden away, Oldham’s memorial to six local volunteers who died fighting fascism in the Spanish civil war has been restored to public view, marking both a victory for campaigners and a renewed tribute to the town’s proud International Brigade heritage, says ROB HARGREAVES
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After Guevara: the struggle for progress in Latin America
55 years after Che’s assassination, the continent he sought to liberate has overcome the dark decades of US-backed brutality and terror to once again embrace socialism, writes JOHN WIGHT
In the immediate decades after the Cuban Revolution failed to catalyse a region-wide revolutionary wave, Latin America existed under the iron heel of far-right military dictatorships which prioritised the interests of Washington over the interests of their own people.
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“He entered into death asking neither permission nor forgiveness: he led his men forth to face the bullets of the surrounding army in the dusty ravine of Yuro.”
SO WRITES that genius of the written word, Eduardo Galeano, of the last gun battle fought by Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967; the culmination of his ill-fated attempt to inspire Bolivia’s poverty-stricken, oppressed peasantry to rise up against the country’s then-dictator Rene Barrientos, an agent of the CIA in all but name, in what Guevara and his followers intended to be a rerun of the Cuban revolution eight years previously.
If one man’s legacy looms large over the modern history of Latin America it’s the legacy of Guevara, whose indomitable and unrelenting resistance to US imperialism and its agents continues to inspire in a region long considered in Washington to be US real estate.
In many respects Guevara was Latin America’s Soleimani and Soleimani the Middle East’s Guevara.
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