Revision of the Draft Telegram from the CPC Central Committee Thanking the Cuban People's Socialist Party [1] (October 22, 1960)

We wish you new victories in the struggle to further strengthen the unity of revolutionary forces, to defend and advance the revolution, under the leadership of the heroic leader Fidel Castro [2], and in the struggle against the forces of aggression and war headed by U.S. imperialism and to safeguard world peace. We want Cuba, not the Yankees! Down with U.S. imperialism! Long live Cuba! Long live the peoples of the twenty Latin American countries!

Published according to the revised manuscript by Mao Zedong.

Notes

[1] This is Mao Zedong's revision of the draft telegram dated October 22, 1960, from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in reply to the National Committee of the Cuban People's Socialist Party, which had sent congratulations on the National Day of the People's Republic of China. The text printed in Song typeface was added by Mao Zedong.

[2] Fidel Castro was then Prime Minister of the Cuban government.