The wage system under State monopoly capitalism, imposed on Cuba in the name of socialism, has always stood in the way and will continue to be an obstacle to free associated or individual labor – the authentically socialist forms of production.
Read MoreIt is no secret to anyone that, in the past year, the number of Cubans leaving the country has increased considerably. These migrants try to reach the USA through all imaginable routes, including the most dangerous.
Read MoreOver the past few decades, the nearly unanimous support for the US trade embargo / blockade among Cubans residing in the United States has given way to increasing calls to make these measures more flexible or to eliminate them altogether.
Read MoreA New York Times editorial published urges President Obama to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba – something that is beyond the scope of the embargo provisions and which falls within his presidential prerogatives.
Read MoreWhat makes one left or right-wing isn’t what one says but one’s position with respect to the political and civil rights of the majorities and to popular sovereignty.
Read MoreCuba’s panorama today is not identical to that of the USRR in the times of Brezhnev, but it is similar. If Cuba’s so-called “historical leadership” does not wish to end up like Brezhnev’s generation, it must implement important economic and political reforms.
Read MoreThe Cuban government-Party-State has acknowledged the poor performance of the country’s economy during the first half of the year. Criticisms among Cuban economists are more frequent. There is a consensus about the need to free Cuba’s productive forces.
Read MoreTouring workplaces and repeating the same old working class and populist discourse that “it is crucial to listen workers in order to know their concerns and suggestions for overcoming many of the problems that affect them in their workplaces,” Cuba’s Communist Party leaders expect to obtain different results.
Read MoreMany believe that everything Fidel Castro did in the name of socialism was a huge mess. But shouldn’t we consider the acknowledgment and study of the many mistakes made in the name of socialism a great lesson, a great inheritance for all socialists?
Read MoreThe first and main problem, the original sin of the “reform process” and its “guidelines” approved at the 6th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), is its failure to define the type of society it seeks to create and the aims and means of production of this society.
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