Three recent analyses from La Joven Cuba, translated for Links
International Journal of Socialist Renewal.
1. The hidden cost of the Cuban crisis
by the La Joven Cuba editorial board
https://links.org.au/hidden-cost-cuban-crisis
/Originally conceived as a strategy for regime change — which has failed
— the U.S. sanctions policy has successfully mutated into a form of
collective punishment, where the deterioration of the population’s
living conditions also serves as a deterrent. Cuba thus becomes the “bad
example” to be paraded before the world, so that its crisis serves as a
permanent warning against any political or economic alternative that
challenges the power of the United States.
/
2. The ‘Start of Summer’ Festival at the crossroads of Cuba’s political
project, by Rubén Padrón Garriga
https://links.org.au/start-summer-festival-crossroads-cubas-political-project
/At those VIP tables there were Cubans from very diverse backgrounds.
There were those who had been absent from the island for years,
returning with the foreign currency they had saved in the “capitalist”
system. There were the owners of private businesses who had genuinely
prospered — and it is worth making the distinction, not just any
business, but one profitable enough to allow them to spend hundreds of
dollars on leisure.
There were the “influencers” who are paid to promote those businesses.
There were also those who knew how to capitalise on assets they acquired
through social redistribution mechanisms, assets that for decades had no
market value, such as a mansion in Vedado that can suddenly be sold or
rented. And, we must not ignore it, there were also those who had
accumulated wealth through the misappropriation of resources and corruption.
/
3. Cuba: An urgent but risky reform
by the La Joven Cuba editorial board
https://links.org.au/cuba-urgent-risky-reform
/[Internal] resistance to change has already caused too much suffering.
Persisting with it would only make things worse. But, alongside
unleashing productive forces, we must unleash civic forces to ensure the
fruits of that production benefit the majority, and do not impoverish
those who have worked for years for the country’s development. That will
be the true measure of reform; beyond what it achieves in terms of
macroeconomic indicators, how much dignity does it manage to preserve
and rebuild.
/
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