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    Julio Antonio Mella, giant of ideas and combat

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    Julio Antonio Mella, gigante de las ideas y el combate

    “I die for the Revolution!”, the communist and anti-imperialist fighter Julio Antonio Mella managed to say it when he was shot to death on a street in Mexico City at the age of 25, on January 10, 1929, by hitmen under orders of the tyrant Gerardo Machado.

    A historical phrase that not only proves his correct presumption about the origin of the fire that killed him. It also showed that he knew death was a real possibility when fought bravely and vertically to the end, and he embraced it with courage. An attitude worthy of that giant specimen of ideas and combat.

    His life had been marked by constant action from very early on. In addition, this explains the rich revolutionary wealth, despite its loss in the prime of life. He carried out the political struggle with a progressive and outstanding exercise of thought and theory, even before going into exile, forced by the fury of the so-called Asno con Garras.

    The president of Cuba since 1925, a corrupt and surrendering leader to imperial designs, was a furious anti-communist and exceeded the norm when it came to committing excesses, thus unleashing a wave of horrendous crimes to extinguish any sign of claims for social justice and of homeland sovereignty.

    The revolutionaries and comrades in the struggle were clear that the communist student leader Julio Antonio Mella was more than a stone pierced in the tyrant's shoe.

    That is why Julio Antonio had to go live in Mexico City since 1926, which did not prevent him from continuing to fulfill what he considered his political and revolutionary duty in that new place. Therefore, he joined the ranks of the Communist Party of that country, of which he became a member of the political bureau.

    In addition, he joined a Venezuelan revolutionary organization that also sought to bring down the dictatorship in his nation.

    In Mexico, new possibilities were opened, such as being an active militant of the continental Communist International. Then he traveled to Russia and Brussels to approach similar political movements, with divergent, controversial and even controversial approaches at the time.

    In 1924, we see him founding the Cuban section of the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas, to join later the ranks of the Mexican. He also worked in the dissemination of Marxist ideas from journalism and was a promoter of university reform in Latin America. Its imprint had continental reach.

    Mella's activism was gaining intensity by the day, and she had to face misunderstandings and false accusations circulated by enemies infiltrated in the ranks of the Communists. However, as a young titan, he never lost his honesty, verticalism and kept the guideline in his fundamental plans to overthrow the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado, in his beloved Cuba.

    When he thought the time had come, in 1928, he organized an armed expedition that would go to Cuba, against the tyrant, for which he obtained a cache of weapons. Informants pretending to be opponents of the dictator disclosed the plan. Gerardo Machado commissioned the execution of the crime against Mella and for that purpose, the murderer traveled to Mexico at the end of that year.

    The days of the tireless revolutionary strategist were sadly numbered. Moreover, even since exile he had not forgotten the cause of his noble land, which so much needed to be truly free.

    Machado's macabre plan was executed on the following January 10, as we already said. The Revolution lost one of its greatest strategists and political mentor, and Cuba, the beloved land, a young hero without blemish.

    Mella was born in Havana on March 25, 1903, and was the illegitimate son of the Dominican tailor Nicanor Mella and the Irish Cecilia Mc Partland y Diez, they say.

    When he was very young, he studied Law, Philosophy and Letters at the University of Havana. In 1921, he created the Alma Mater magazine, of which he was administrator and one of its main editors.

    He also found time for assiduous and enthusiastic practice of sports, which accentuated his athletic figure and handsome look.

    A transcendent page in his life was the founding in 1922 of the University Student Federation, the emblematic FEU, immediately converted into a bulwark in the fight against corruption in the cloisters, due to the reform of education and the expansion of the institution's ties with society and other booming organizations.

    In 1923, he sponsored the first National Student Congress, and there he was one of the main authors of its bases through a manifesto that proclaimed the creation of the José Martí Popular University, which opened the classrooms of higher education for free to the most unprotected from society: workers and very humble people. The teachers were students from the institution itself.

    He also founded in 1925 - together with the independence fighter Carlos Baliño - the first Communist Party of Cuba.

    In addition, he was not only a convinced Marxist, but also an anti-imperialist, since he conceived that sovereignty and national emancipation would only be achieved by eliminating the ties of dependence on the foreign power that had dictated the destiny of the country since 1898.

    For many reasons, his life and work survive in the new generations and he is an example to follow in combat.