On May 1, 2000 at Jose Marti Revolution Square, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro n the Plaza de la Revolucion Jose Marti, Fidel Castro announced the concept of Revolution, which summarizes in its essence the past, the present and above all  the future history of the Cuban nation.

By then, there was a struggle in Cuba and around the world for the return of Elian Gonzalez, a Cuban child unfair and arbitrary kidnapped in the United States, who months later would return to our nation.

In the significant date of the International Workers Day in 2000, and, especially, in the historic Plaza named after Cuban National Hero national hero, Fidel stated:

"We have been living through days of intense and crucial battle. We have been fighting relentlessly for five months. Millions of our compatriots, almost without exception, have participated in it. Our weapons have been the awareness and the ideas sown by the Revolution over more than four decades."

The Cuban leader announced the definition of Revolution, a result of his long experience as fighter, a perfect synthesis of more than two centuries of struggle, first against colonialism ands later against United States neocolonialism.

Fidel said:

"Revolution means to have a sense of history; it is changing everything that must be changed; it is full equality and freedom; it is being treated and treating others like human beings; it is achieving emancipation by ourselves and through our own efforts; it is challenging powerful dominant forces from within and without the social and national milieu; it is defending the values in which we believe at the cost of any sacrifice; it is modesty, selflessness, altruism, solidarity and heroism; it is fighting with courage, intelligence and realism; it is never lying or violating ethical principles; it is a profound conviction that there is no power in the world that can crush the power of truth and ideas. Revolution means unity; it is independence, it is fighting for our dreams of justice for Cuba and for the world, which is the foundation of our patriotism, our socialism and our internationalism"

The concept of Revolution in English was taken from:

www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos

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