Those “socialists” (who never were) saw enemies everywhere due to their thirst for power, their permanent fear of losing it, intolerance and sectarianism. When they didn’t find those enemies, they manufactured them.
Read MoreIt’s known that hegemonic interests manipulate information on conflicts of every nature; but it’s also known that each person reacts to such information according to their interests, vision and convictions. The more cultured, free, democratic and socialized a society is, the better it can face the challenges of international networks.
Read MoreWhat is especially needed are changes in the current state relations of wage-labor production and in the bureaucratic regulations that constrain popular creativity and the generation of necessary consumer goods and services.
Read MoreThe president indicated that our main enemy is presented by our own errors, as he dragged through the mud those who constantly blame external factors as the cause of all our difficulties.
Read MoreThe five survivors tremble with emotion in sharing their exciting and contagious stories that make viewers recall moments in their own lives when they could have been close to death. For our futures, this makes us reassess all the importance and significance of having made it to where we are now and everything that can be implied by our continued living.
Read MorePeople have been encouraged to speak freely about the economic guidelines of the Sixth Party Congress set for April, so with all due respect I am expressing my point of view.
A real discussion about the meaning of socialism should be at the center of debate in the upcoming party congress. However, the method being used for meetings at workplaces and among party members only call for discussion on specific, limited, prefabricated economic guidelines.
Read MoreThe expression “self-employed workers who hire workers” is a negation in itself. “Self-employed” doesn’t begin with the word “self” by mere chance; it is work carried out by oneself, for the sustenance of oneself and one’s family. It does not involve the exploitation of other people’s wage labor, as a norm, and nor does it entail working for someone else.
Read MoreWe applaud the fact that actions are being taken to free us from stagnation and that at least basic issues are being addressed. However, contrary to the official line, the content, form and order of what has begun demonstrate signs of improvisation, a lack of foresight, the absence of transparency, contempt for revolutionary theory, pressuring and imposition.
Read MoreThe bureaucracy has two paths: merge with the people by sharing power with the workers, or try to swim with the sharks of foreign capital, which in our case —since we’re not big fish like in China or Russia— would mean our being devoured. I refuse to believe that this latter is what Fidel and Raul want.
Read MoreThe debate is sometimes sharp, at moments tense, closed; nor is it between individuals under the same conditions. Many revolutionaries and communists debate from the inside, which involves precariousness, patience and tolerance.
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