April 10th is a privileged date in the history of our homeland, and not exclusively because of the events that unquestionably marked it, but because of something much greater, deeper, capable of surpassing time, men, their imprint: the love for Cuba.
A feeling that has been strong enough to weave the defining moments of the evolution of our heroic battle.
Reason more than enough to understand that a little more than two decades after the constitutional baptism of the Republic, an unprecedented political organization was also born which, in spite of its advanced ideological support, did not imply in any way a rupture with the independence legacy of the years already lived, but a necessary continuation. Its supreme merit was in adding Cubans to the cause of their land, regardless of the borders they inhabited.
The Cuban Revolutionary Party was one of the most glorious achievements, among the many that were needed to embrace freedom. It was the most solid concretion, until then, of what the concept of unity should be for Cubans, from the perspective of a structure that exercised leadership, beyond that which could be exercised by a single man or several of them.
Thus, with that visionary thinking that was so natural and characteristic of him, Martí became the architect of the purest precedent that the organizations born for the unrenounceable defense of the homeland had, in the course and periods of struggle.
As its Delegate by consensus decision of those who embraced the independence cause then, that man of supreme transparency and high spirit, knew how to demonstrate that that assignment was, first, in the name of Cuba; later, of the confidence of his co-religionists, but never, in his own name or as individual merit (although he had more than enough merit).
From that understanding came the main legacy of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, masterfully defined by its architect in the newspaper Patria, even before its foundation: "He is, of spontaneous birth, the great public work. It is, with no other personal hand than the one that pours the boiling iron into the mold, the revelation of the shrewdness and generosity of the Cuban soul".
This was also, by nature and inheritance, the founding principle of what we proudly call “immortal”, our Communist Party of Cuba. That, which has never ceased to be what Fidel coined with full certainty: “the soul of the Revolution”.
History has its own voice, and it is sufficiently clear and precise when we learn to listen to it. There are dates that count among its best arguments, and April 10 is convincing to understand essences of unity, of continued paths, and of the relevance and validity of a leadership that does not cease to be collective, although it bets on a single Party.
