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Taking a "Model" Out for a Spin (Part II)

<p style="text-align: justify;">Behind the New Economic Measures in Cuba: Advancing the Revolution in the Concrete World Situation of Today. Behind the New Economic Measures in Cuba: Advancing the Revolution in the Concrete World Situation of Today. By Ike Nahem. The expansion of "self-employment". Expansion of retail operations, small merchants and peddlers, and self-employed services are not the same thing as capitalist commodity production. Any expansion of small-scale private retail consumer goods sales and services will not be supplied directly by capitalist manufacturing but by enterprises owned or controlled by the Cuban workers state. Read More

Taking a "Model " Out for a A Spin (Part I)

Behind the New Economic Measures in Cuba: Advancing the Revolution in the Concrete World Situation of Today. By Ike Nahem. On September 13, 2010 the Confederation of Cuban Workers (CTC) - the mass trade-union organization that is a central component and pillar of the Cuban workers state and the revolutionary government headed by Raul Castro - issued an announcement which codified and specified new measures and significant changes in economic, financial, and commercial policies that will be implemented in Cuba over the coming months and years. Read More