If national history were to represent a tree, the foundation of the First Communist Party would constitute one of the transcendent circles in its trunk, reason enough to honor its centenary, with a ceremony held at the José Martí Memorial, headed by First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.
Rigoberto Santiesteban Reina, president of the Institute of Cuban History (ihc), highlighted in the meeting, held on Saturday, the importance of that foundational work, with the mission of guiding the proletariat, under the ideological trends embraced since then in the longing for profound changes in the country: the best of the independence traditions -synthesized in the preaching of the Apostle- and Marxism.
He called on us to immerse ourselves in the study of those years, in the midst of the neocolonial stage, with the aim of taking advantage of valuable lessons to always raise those principles, together with critical and dialectical thinking, capable of offering answers to the challenges of each specific time and place.
In the meantime, Elvis Raúl Rodríguez, PhD in Historical Sciences, Vice-President of the IHC, gave a lecture in which he highlighted the qualitative leap that August 16, 1925 implied for the following years of struggle. A photographic exhibition allegorical to the date was also inaugurated.
The President previously visited the exhibition All the Glory of the World, a photographic exhibition by Alex Castro, inaugurated on August 13 at the Memorial.
Participating in the celebration were Political Bureau Member and Secretary of the Council of Ministers, José Amado Ricardo Guerra; Central Committee Members Humberto Camilo Hernández Suárez, Head of the Department of Cadre Policy, and Emilio Lozada García, Head of the Department of International Relations, as well as other leaders of the Party, the UJC and members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior.
