Mr President (Kennedy): I send you this message in an hour of alarm, fraught with  danger for the peace of the whole world. Armed aggression has begun against Cuba. It  is a secret to no one that the armed bands invading this country were trained, equipped  and armed in the United States of America. The planes which are bombing Cuban cities  belong to the United States of America, the bombs they are dropping are being supplied  by the American Government … Your statement a few days ago that the USA would not  participate in military activities against Cuba created the impression that the top leaders  of the United States were taking into account the consequences for general peace and  for the USA itself which aggression against Cuba could have … As far as the Soviet  Union is concerned, there should be no mistake about our position. We will render the  Cuban people and their government all the necessary help to repel an armed attack on  Cuba ... 

[Taken from On The Brink: From Bay of Pigs to the Cuban Missile Crisis by Matthew Mooney]

Mr Chairman (Khrushchev): You are under a serious misapprehension in regard to  events in Cuba. For months there has been evident and growing resistance to the Castro  dictatorship. More than 100 000 refugees have recently fled from Cuba to neighbouring  countries … It cannot be surprising that, as resistance within Cuba grows, refugees have  been using whatever means are available to return and support their countrymen in the  continuing struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice (the ability  to choose a different form of government besides communism), recourse to such  struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties … You should recognise that free  peoples in all parts of the world do not accept the claim of the historical inevitability of  the communist revolution. What your government believes is its own business; what it  does in the world is the world’s business. The great revolution in the history of man, past,  present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. 

[Taken from On The Brink: From Bay of Pigs to the Cuban Missile Crisis by Matthew Mooney]

The United States had already surrounded the Soviet Union with its own bomber bases  and missiles. We knew that American missiles were aimed against us in Turkey and  Italy, to say nothing of West Germany. It was during my visit to Bulgaria that I had the  idea of installing missiles with nuclear warheads in Cuba without letting the United States  find out they were there until it was too late to do anything about them. Everyone agreed  that America would not leave Cuba alone unless we did something. We had an obligation  to do everything in our power to protect Cuba’s existence as a socialist country and as  a working example to the other countries in Latin America ... The Americans had  surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons and  now they would learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointing at you; we'd  be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine. 

[Taken from On The Brink: From Bay of Pigs to the Cuban Missile Crisis by Matthew Mooney]

Deutschman: It is said that the Cuban presence in Angola had expansionist (colonising)  aims, and that Cuba was acting as a puppet (under the control) of the Soviet Union. What  is your response to this? 
Risquet: It would make no sense for us, a small country to think about expanding to  Angola. This is absurd. Proof of that is that when our presence is no longer needed, we  will withdraw. As for material interests, the only thing we have taken from Angola has been  the remains of our soldiers who died there. We don’t want any of Angola’s riches. Those  riches are for the people of Angola to use for their development, to provide a pleasant life  for those heroic people we love so much, a people for whom we have shed our blood,  and alongside whom we have fought for so many years. 
The claim that we went to Angola under Moscow’s orders is absurd. It was a sovereign  (independent) decision made in response to a request for aid from Agostinho Neto. Not  only was it our decision, we didn’t even consult the Soviet Union. There was a  communication with the Soviet Union, after our troops were on their way. We asked the  Soviet Union for logistical aid for our troops. Our soldiers went with their own weapons,  but they needed ammunition. They also needed more weapons as the war grew larger.  We asked for and received extensive collaboration from the Soviet Union. The USSR, like  Cuba, is in solidarity with Angola. It stands on the side of people fighting racism and  colonialism, and it supports the cause of their independence. 

[From https://espressostalinist.com/category/congo-zaire. Accessed on 04 January 2019]

African blood flows freely through our veins. Many of our ancestors came as slaves from  Africa to this land. As slaves they struggled a great deal. They fought as members of the  liberating army of Cuba. We’re brothers and sisters of the people of Africa and we’re ready  to fight on their behalf. 
Racial discrimination existed in our country. Is there anyone who doesn’t know this, who  doesn’t remember it? Many public parks had separate walks for blacks and for whites. Is  there anyone who doesn’t recall that African descendants were barred from many places,  from recreation centres and schools? … 
And today, who are the representatives, the symbols of the most hateful and inhumane form of racial discrimination? The South African fascists and racists. And Yankee  imperialism, without scruples (conscience) of any kind, has launched South African  mercenary troops in an attempt to crush Angola’s independence and is now outraged by  our help to Angola, our support for Africa and our defence of Africa. In keeping with the  duties rooted in our principles, our ideology, our convictions and our very own blood, we  shall defend Angola and Africa! … 
Let the South African racists and the Yankee imperialists be warned. We are part of the  world revolutionary movement, and in Africa’s struggle against racists and imperialists,  we’ll stand, without hesitation, side by side with the people of Angola!  

[From Cuba and Angola. Fighting for Africa’s Freedom and our Own (Pathfinders, 2013), p31]

Rhodes: President Kaunda of Zambia described the Soviet and the Cuban intervention  in Angola. I think the quote is ‘a plundering (thieving) tiger and its deadly cub’. … Would  you say that this then poses a bigger threat than the emergence of yet another  independent black African nation on South African borders? 
Prime Minister Vorster: Yes, because here you haven’t got an independent black African  country coming into existence on South African borders. You have a Cuban force of  thousands – estimated at this stage between 10 and 13 thousand – taking part in a civil  war in Southern Africa and if that was the end of it, one could have shrugged one’s  shoulders and said, okay, they will go back tomorrow. But knowing the communists,  knowing the Cubans, there is nobody who can tell you at this stage that they are going  home, once they have put the MPLA in the saddle. I think it must be accepted that they  are here to stay and I think it must be accepted that just as much as they subverted  (destabilised) or at least, as much as they are trying to subvert [spread communism in]  Angola, they will try to subvert other Southern African countries. 
Because, make no mistake about it … world domination has always been and to this very  day, is still the aim of the communists. And I for one believe … they are preparing for that  conventional war. Look at their conventional armaments compared to those of the free  world, of the Western countries … if they can control the southern tip of Africa, they have  a tremendous advantage in any conventional war; apart from the raw materials that they  can get from Angola and other Southern African countries, they will control the Cape sea  route which is the lifeline of Europe. 

[Taken from http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/interview-south-african-prime-minister-mr-b-j vorster mrclarence-rhodes-upitn-tv-13-february. Accessed on 04 January 2019.]

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defence calls upon the American people in general and  the black people in particular to take careful note of the racist California Legislature which  is now considering legislation aimed at keeping the black people disarmed and powerless  at the very same time that racist police agencies throughout the country are intensifying  the terror, brutality, murder, and repression of black people. 
At the same time that the American government is waging a racist war of genocide in  Vietnam, the concentration camps in which Japanese Americans were interned during  World War II are being renovated and expanded. Since America has historically reserved  the most barbaric treatment for non-white people, we are forced to conclude that these  concentration camps are being prepared for black people who are determined to gain  their freedom by any means necessary. The enslavement of black people from the very  beginning of this country, the genocide practiced on the American Indians and the  confining of the survivors on reservations, the savage lynching of thousands of black men  and women, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and now the  cowardly massacre in Vietnam, all testify to the fact that toward people of colour the racist  power structure of America has but one policy: repression, genocide, terror, and the big  stick. 
Black people have begged, prayed, petitioned, demonstrated, and everything else to get  the racist power structure of America to right the wrongs which have historically been  perpetrated against black people. All of these efforts have been answered by more  repression, deceit and hypocrisy. As the aggression of the racist American government  escalates in Vietnam, the police agencies of America escalate the repression of black  people throughout the ghettoes of America.  
The Black Panther Party for Self-defence believes that the time has come for black people  to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late. The pending Mulford Act brings  the hour of doom one step nearer. A people who have suffered so much for so long at  the hands of a racist society, must draw the line somewhere. We believe that the black  communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that  leads inevitably to their total destruction. 

[From https://spartacus-educational.com/USApantherB.htm. Accessed on 04 January 2019.]

I knew they (FBI) were watching us. ... They heavily focused on us when we started to  grow so rapidly. We began to grow rapidly really after Martin Luther King was killed. ...  With Martin Luther King's death, by June, my party was jumping by leaps and bounds. In  a matter of six months, we swelled; in 1968, from 400 members to 5,000 members and  45 chapters and branches. ... Our newspaper swells to over 100,000 circulations. By mid 1969, we had a 250,000 circulation. 
Why did the FBI come down on us? We started those working coalitions with other  organisations at the beginning of 1968. Those coalitions solidified themselves. We had  the Peace and Freedom Party working in coalition with the Black Panther Party; SDS:  Students for a Democratic Society, all the anti-war movement people; numerous other  organisations. In late 1968, we had a working coalition with the Poor People’s March  through Rev. Ralph Abernathy, with SCLC; we had a coalition with the Brown Berets, the  Chicano organisation, Cesar Chavez and others in the farm labour movement; AIM:  American and Indian Movement; Young Puerto Rican Brothers, the Young Lords – we  coalesced (combined) with everybody, you see. Because remember, we were dealing  with ‘all power to all the people,’ not just black power ... 
So, with the Breakfast for Children Program spreading across the country, getting a lot of  media play, the Preventative Medical Health Care Clinics, the doctors, the medics – I  mean, this is authentic medicine, preventative medical health care clinics, the people  donating their time. We got 5 000 full-time working members in the Black Panther Party,  mostly college students; these were college students: I would say 60 percent of them  were college students from after Martin Luther King was killed, because they were so  upset and so mad that they killed Martin Luther King, they postponed their college  education and said, ‘I’m joining the Black Panther Party’. 

[Taken from htpp://www.spartacus-educational.com. Accessed on 04 January 2019.]

Look at the American Revolution in 1776. That revolution was for what? For land. Why did  they want land? Independence. How was it carried out? Bloodshed. Number one, it was  based on land, the basis of independence. And the only way they could get it was  bloodshed. The French Revolution – what was it based on? The landless against the  landlord. What was it for? Land. How did they get it? Bloodshed. Was no love lost, was no  compromise, was no negotiation. I'm telling you – you don’t know what a revolution is. 
Because when you find out what it is, you’ll get back in the alley, you’ll get out of the way. The Russian Revolution – what was it based on? Land; the landless against the landlord.  How did they bring it about? Bloodshed. You haven’t got a revolution that doesn’t involve  bloodshed. And you’re afraid to bleed. I said, you’re afraid to bleed! 
As long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled.  He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white  people, but when it comes to seeing your own churches being bombed and little black girls  murdered, you haven’t got any blood. You bleed when the white man says bleed; you bite  when the white man says bite; and you bark when the white man says bark. I hate to say  this about us, but it’s true. How can you justify being non-violent in Mississippi and  Alabama, when your churches are being bombed, and your little girls are being murdered,  and at the same time you are going to get violent with Hitler, and Tojo, and somebody else  you don’t even know? 
If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent  defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is  wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defence of her. And if it is  right for America to draft us and teach us how to be violent in defence of her, then it is  right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in  this country. 
So I cite these various revolutions, brothers and sisters, to show you that you don’t have  a peaceful revolution. You don’t have a turn-the-other-cheek revolution. There’s no such  thing as a non-violent revolution. The only kind of revolution that is non-violent is the Negro  revolution. The only revolution in which the goal is loving your enemy is the Negro  revolution. It's the only revolution in which the goal is a desegregated lunch counter, a  desegregated theatre, a desegregated park, and a desegregated public toilet; you can sit  down next to white folks – on the toilet. That’s no revolution. Revolution is based on land.  Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality. 

[Taken from htpp://www.spartacus-educational.com. Accessed on 04 January 2019.]