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UNIFICATION
The party was established through the unification of Fidel Castro's 26th July Movement, the Revolutionary Directorate (the two bourgeois reformist organisations which had supported the armed struggle against the Batista dictatorship between 1956 and 1959) and thirdly the old Cuban CP, known as the Popular Socialist anti-communism Castro's movement.
The PSP, for its part, had bitterly opposed what it called Castro's adventurist and putschist politics both in the student movement in the late forties and even more fiercely after the disastrous attack on the Moncada barracks in 1953.
Its only alternative, however, had been the peaceful road and Union, whose assistance became necessary because of growing US opposition.
DECLARATION
In 1961, in the Declaration of Havana, Castro declared the socialist character of the revolution, and confessed previous errors' in his attitude to the PSP; the way was cleared for the establishment of a Movement had by this time gone into opposition or left Cuba altogether for the US); he described the result as a dungheap' The speech was followed by the enforced exile to the USSR of the organisation secretary of the party, Anibal Escalante, and an immense purge of PSP members carried out by Castro and his close allies in the leadership. Thousands were expelled from the initially 15,000 PART CASTRO PREPARES FI THE CONGRE SS