Cuba

Raul's speech to UJC 9th Congress

Key address by army general Raul Castro, president of the state council of ministers and second secretary of the communist party of the closing session of the young communist party of Cuba central committee, at the closing session of the 9th congress of the young communist league, Havana, april 4, 2010,year 52 of the Revolution.
 
Delegates and Guests, Comrades all:  It has been a good Congress, since last October when it began with the open meetings attended by hundreds of thousand of youths and continued with the evaluation meetings conducted by the organization from the rank and file through the municipal and provincial committees where the agreements were worked out that would be adopted in these final sessions.  If there is anything we have had aplenty in the little over five years that have passed since Fidel made the closing speech at the 8th YCL Congress, on December 5, 2004, that is work and challenges.

‘They bark, Sancho, a sign that we’re moving’

By Luis Sexto

Cuba: The danger in not putting on one's boots

Wednesday, 24 March 2010
By Luis Sexto

I invite to polemics and urge honesty when I say that a real, palpable ghost is still haunting Cuba: the debate.

In figures that for now seem indefinable, Cubans are discussing Cuba's immediate future. And in a kind of enclosed chamber we find the anonymous commentary heard on streets, the proposals in work centers, the office chat, the conclusions in economic and sociological studies, and theoretical, critical and sometimes irreverent articles disseminated on the Internet or the Intranet, but professing to be of the socialist faith.

CUBA: Time for changes & responsibility

Wednesday, 10 March 2010
ByAriel Terrero
ariel@cubaprofunda.org
From the blog Cubaprofunda

I have a friend who is irritated by the word “change,” when used to describe transformations begun in Cuba's economic model, visible or foretold in various fields and activities – in agriculture, investment strategy, decentralized schemes of financing for exporting sectors, wage systems, etc.

Reflections of Fidel: The world half a century later

Reflections of Fidel

The world half a century later

 

Reflections of Fidel -- The moment of truth

Granma, Havana.  December  18, 2009

NEWS arriving from the Danish capital paints a picture of chaos. After planning an event in which around 40,000 people were to participate, the hosts have no way of keeping their promise. Evo, who was the first of the ALBA presidents to arrive there, expressed certain profound truths emanating from the millenary culture of his people.

The Cuban Revolution in the epoch of neoliberal globalisation -- DSP document

[This resolution was adopted by the nineteenth Congress of the Australian Democratic Socialist Party, January 2001.]

Revolutionary optimism

Concluding now, let’s return to Fidel’s November 2005 speech at the University of Havana, where he described Cuba as an “idiot country” but added, “This is not speaking badly about the Revolution, this is in fact speaking very well of the Revolution, because we speak of a Revolution that can discuss all this and can grab the bull by the horns, even better than the Spanish bull-fighter.”

Property, decentralisation and participation

A fourth key issue in the debate, or really several closely related issues, come under the heading “property forms, decentralisation and participation”. Regarding property forms, many argue that a different balance of social and private ownership of productive wealth is needed. At one extreme are a few who think that most or all state property should be turned into autonomous producer cooperatives, a petit-bourgeois utopia that would quickly lead back to capitalism. 

Paternalism

What are the key issues that have emerged in this debate? One key issue is debate itself, or the lack of it. Many letters to the editor rail against the habits and practices of false unanimity and the suppression of differences, and openly denounce “bureaucracy”. 

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