-DATE- 19750416 -YEAR- 1975 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- REPORT -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- PCC POLITBURO OFFICIALLY CONVOKES 1ST PARTY CONG -PLACE- CUBA -SOURCE- HAVANA DOMESTIC SVC -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19750417 -TEXT- PCC POLITBURO OFFICIALLY CONVOKES FIRST PARTY CONGRESS Havana Domestic Service in Spanish 1045 GMT 16 Apr 75 FL [Text] The PCC Central Committee Politburo has issued the official convocation for the first congress of our party. The document reads: In a meeting on 10 April 1975, the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Cuban Revolutionary Party of Jose Marti, which guided the combatants of last century in the struggle to gain the independence of the fatherland from Spanish colonial domination, the PCC Central Committee Politburo agreed to convoke officially the first congress of our party, which is the heir of the struggles of our Mambises [Cuban Army of Independence] and of all those who have worked and fought to gain independence and the right to build a better life, to build a socialist society for our people. The Politburo created the Central Preparatory Committee of the first party congress headed by Comrade Fidel Castro, first secretary of the party, and made up of Raul Castro, as vice president, Osvaldo Dorticos, Juan Almeida, Guillermo Garcia, Armando Hart, Ramiro Valdes, Sergio del Valle, Blas Roca, Carlos Rafael Ridriguez, Raul Garcia Pelaez, Isidoro Malmierca, Pedro Miret, Antonio Perez Herrero and Jorge Risquet. The Central Preparatory Committee will guide all preparatory activities of the congress, will direct the preparation of and approve all documents submitted for the consideration of the party or presented for discussion by all the people to supplement and enrich them before they are analyzed during December of this year by the most important, decisive and momentous meeting of the party and the country, the party congress. Beginning in April, meetings will be held to elect or confirm the members of the leadership and to elect delegates to higher positions in all party organizations and institutions in accordance with the schedule that has been adopted. In establishing the standards that will be used to elect the delegates to our first congress and in order to guarantee that our representatives are able to participate fully in the deliberations and in the adoption of the decisions that will govern the activities of the party during the next 5 years, municipal, sectional and regional meetings will elect "predelegates" to the congress. These will be apportioned to one delegate for every 100 militants or candidate members, elected in the six provincial assemblies, in the Isle of Pines, and in the conferences of the party organizations in the Ministries of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Interior. Besides, communists of numerous work centers which have been selected because of their political or economic importance will elect delegates to the congress separately. In its agendum, the congress will analyze the activity developed by the party and people during the past years of uninterrupted struggle in defense of the revolution and for the establishment of the guidelines for the construction of socialism, will prepare the platform for our future activity in domestic and foreign policy, adopt the party statutes, examine the draft of the socialist constitution, determine the direction of the economy, outline the action of the organs of people's government, adopt the main directives for the coming years in the fundamental political, economic and social activities and proceed to elect the party Central Committee, which, as supreme organ of the party between congresses, will be responsible for watching over the implementation of the political line adopted by the congress and other agreements and decisions. The PCC Central Committee Politburo urges all working people to participate in the preparatory tasks of the congress, in the discussions of its main documents, and feels sure that the working class and all our people will decisively contribute to the creative efforts of making this year, during which we will also commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the First Cuban Communist Party, a year of new and more important victories in socialist construction under special emulation in salute to the first party congress. Finally, the PCC Central Committee Politburo agrees that the convocation of the first party congress be made public on 16 April, the 14th anniversary of the day when the workers, raising their rifles, machetes and the fatherland's flag when they repulsed and defeated the aggression of the mercenaries and the Yankee imperialists, proclaimed the socialist nature of our revolution. To the first congress, in pursuit of new victories for our fatherland and socialism! Signed, Fidel Castro. -END-