POWER IN CUBA tary (including 57 Majors), 26 % professionals and only 7 % workers. In addition to the 6 secretariats of the CPC in the provinces, there were in 1973, 60 district secretariats, 401 in the municipalities and 14,360 party cells, in mass organizations, factories and rural areas. The Communist Party governs Cuba and Castro rules the Communist Party. The Stalinist subsurvience of the CPC to Castro was stressed by Armando Hart (Organizing Secretary of the CTC) in 1969, in a speech at the University of Hava.na: « ... can anyone analyze or study theoretical questions, raised, for instance, by philosophy, the road to Communism; or any field of culture, mainly those of social science and philosophy, without taking into account the ideas and concepts of Fidel [Castro] and Che [Guevara]? ... > (8). The first post-Castro Congress of the CPC (Dec. 1975) ratitied the new constitution drawn up by the veteran communtst leader Blas Roca and the juridical committee of the Party Central Committee. The CPC was proclaimed as the « ... supreme leading force of Cuban society and the State,. The national program of the Party was approved and the tentative flrst five year economic plan for 1976-1980 inclusive was also recommended. Pending lmplementation of the new directives of the Congress, the CPC is headed by a 100 member Central Commlttee. Below the Provincial Committees are the Regional and Municipal Committees down to factory and farm cens. At every level of this complicated, autocratically centralized organizat'ion, the orders of the hlgh command (Castro's clique) are falthfully carrled out. Driven by the necessity to remain on good terms with hls saviors, upon whom his survival in power depends, Castro deliberately falsifies the history of his relations with the Cuban communists; affirming now what he vehemently denied before. His mouthpiece, Granma (August 16, 1975) hypocritically stressed that: «... throughout its history ou; nation's first Communist party performed tremendous work dlsseminating Marxist-Leninist ideas; fought the local oligarchy and agalnst imperialism and selflessly defended all democratic demands of the working class ... > (9). (8) Granrna, Sept. 28, 1969 - quoted Halperin, ibid., p. 17. (9) International Affalrs Montilly; Moscow, November 1975, p. 17. 51
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