Red salute to renowned revolutionary

In a statement here, the CPI (M) said Commandant-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, outstanding leader of the Cuban revolution, staunch internationalist and architect of socialism is no more.  

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) pays its respectful homage to the memory of this towering revolutionary figure who did so much to shape the revolutionary movements in the second half of the 20th century.  

Fidel Castro brilliantly led the revolutionary uprising against the hated Batista regime in Cuba. 

The Cuban revolution which succeeded in 1959 became the first socialist revolution in the western hemisphere. Under his dynamic leadership, Cuba emerged from  the shackles of semi-colonialism and slavery and built a society where tremendous strides were made to create a socially just society with universal education, health care, food provisioning, women’s rights and racial equality. 

Fidel Castro, as President of the Cuban State and as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, provided the  leadership for this revolutionary transformation, the statement said.