The last War of Independence in Cuba against the Spanish colonialism (1895-1898) was called by José Martí ¨The Necessary War¨, which he organized through a movement that responded to his orders without hesitation. Crucial in this process of preparation of the Necessary War was the Cuban Revolutionary Party, he created due to the need to create an organ or group that would provide a programmatic line to the new war in preparation.
The Cuban Revolutionary Party published in the newspaper Patria, founded and also directed by José Martí:
¨War is a political procedure, and this procedure of war is convenient in Cuba for multiple reasons that made it the only means to which the Cubans appealed to achieve independence, since Spain had closed any other way…¨
The independence outbreak occurred on February 24, 1895 in different areas of the island after Martí´s order. The one occurred in Baire, called Baire´s Cry (Grito de Baire) became the most famous since that was the name used either the Spanish authorities and the insurrectional forces to refer to that historic deed.
José Martí foresaw the necessary participation of the veteran of the previous war such as Máximo Gómez, Antonio Maceo, Calixto García and Flor Crombet.
Finally the Necessary War put an end to Spanish colonialism in Cuba, however the US intervention under the pretext of the Maine explosion prevented the Liberation Army from achieving the supreme goal: The independence of Cuba. The island became a US neo-colony until the true independence for the Cuban Nation was achieved on January 1, 1959.