CONTENTS - 8th Congress of Communist Party of Cuba - • Congratulations on Successful Conclusion of Party Congress

Commission 1 dealt with the economic and social results achieved since the 7th Congress and projections for further progress, as well as evaluation of the implementation of the Guidelines of the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution and the updating of these. [...] She recounted enthusiastically the highlights of the achievements of the Congress of which there were many, an important one being that the 8th Congress completed the transfer of the main leadership of the Party to a new generation, with measures put in place to guarantee that the revolutionary content established by the generation which led the Cuban people to defend the victories of the Revoluti. [...] The existence in Cuba of a single party has been, and will always be, at the center of the enemy's campaigns, determined to fragment and disunite Cubans with the siren song of sacrosanct bourgeois democracy, based on the ancient tactic of "divide and conquer." 14 The unity of the immense majority of Cubans around the Party, and the work and ideals of the Revolution, has been our fundamental strate. [...] It is the daring uprising of Céspedes, the unwavering honor of Agramonte, the dignified intransigence of Maceo, the impressive acumen of Gómez, the Maroons' quest for liberty, the passion of war poets, the ferocity of Mariana in the scrub and the inspiring light of Martí. [...] It is the Great Rebellion, the underground, the guerrilla fronts, the strategic counteroffensive, the invasion of the West, the decisive battles, the triumphal entry into Havana, the Agrarian Reform, the literacy campaign, the fight against counterrevolutionary bandits, the militias, the Girón victory, the October Crisis, internationalist collaboration in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Che's guer.