Communist Party of Cuba

Eric Toussaint looks at the great public debate on the nature of the economy that occurred after the 1959 Cuban revolution, involving Ernesto Che Guevara, Alberto Mora, Ernest Mandel, and Charles Bettelheim.

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski and Adrianna Nowak reconstruct the long Cuban struggle to preserve revolutionary autonomy within an unequal alliance with the Soviet Union.

Despite his country’s critical situation, Silvio Rodríguez insists he has not succumbed to despair: “I am sure many Cubans would be willing to defend our country with weapons.”

Carlos Alzugaray Treto — Cuba must find the road toward its own reforms. Otherwise, Cubans run the risk of an unacceptable setback that we do not deserve after so much sacrifice.

Harold Cardenas Lema — The Cuban Communist Party Central Committee Plenary Session in July offered the party leadership an opportunity to frankly acknowledge the scale of the current crisis. It failed to do so.

Ernesto Limia Díaz draws out the challenges Cuban revolutionaries face today as they try to confront the impact of a severe economic crisis.

By Ike Nahem