In the Aula Magna of the University of Havana, where Mella displayed intense political and revolutionary activities in the 1920s, participants expressed the continuity of the outstanding fighter’s work.

According to the National People’s Power Assembly (Parliament), Communist Party (PCC) First Secretary in Havana Luis Antonio Torres, and Higher Education Walter Baluja, among others, were present at the event.

During the event, a group of young people received their accreditations as members of the Young Communist League (UJC), and reaffirm the continuity of Julio Antonio Mella’s anti-imperialist vision.

According to Mella, true social redemption came with the overthrow of the entire pro-imperialist system predominant in Cuba and in Latin America.

Earlier, on his X account, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel evoked the sad date and recalled Mella’s epic statement when he was seriously wounded on January 10, 1929, at the age of 20: “I die for the Revolution!”

Díaz-Canel also quoted a phrase by the historic leader of Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, who defined Julio Antonio Mella as “the Cuban who did the most in the least time.”

The head of State noted that on January 10, 1976, the ashes of the Cuban revolutionary leader were kept at the foot of his beloved University of Havana.

National Assembly President Esteban Lazo, in turn, assured that Cubans today pay tribute to one of their most worthy sons, who is a paradigm for the new generations.

PCC Secretary of Organization Roberto Morales wrote on X that the youth leader continues to be an encouraging, exemplary, victorious and invincible flag of the Cuban socialist Revolution.

In his short existence, Mella displayed intense political and revolutionary activities that catapulted him into the international arena.

He founded the University Students Federation (FEU) in 1922 and the Communist Party of Cuba in 1925.

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