Argentina - May 25, 2022

A scandalous article by a member of the Cuban Stalinist party, of the self-proclaimed “communist left”

Frank García Hernández: the Polo Obrero and the Picketer Unity, the role-model of how to control the starving Cuban workers in revolts

Frank García Hernández wrote an article titled “Cuba without unions before the triumph of capitalism”, dated on 05/18/2022. In it, he warned that “Cuba needs self-organized unions, run by the affiliated workers themselves and not by the state union bureaucracy”.
There, he vindicates the Federal March led by the Polo Obrero and the Argentine Picketer Unity, affirming that: “The Cuban working class does not live under extreme poverty, unlike thousands of workers and unemployed in Argentina, but it is precisely in order not to fall in those critical conditions that the Cuban working class must self-organize.”

Frank Hernández, as all the leaders of the Cuban CP, is worried; he wants to avoid a new uprising of the workers and the poor Cuban people, and they look at the Argentine experience of the movement of unemployed workers as an example form them to control the hungry tightly.

He is aware that in the Federal March it was not possible to “bend the capitalist government”, however, he highlights the importance of such mobilization that “reminded the bourgeoisie of the strength of the hungry people”.

In other words, for Frank, the policy of "pressing" the Fernández government with thousands of unemployed workers is exemplary; as well as its organizational form is the model for transferring the hungry Cuban workers who, in the uprising of July 11, 2021, escaped the control of the union bureaucracy and the Cuban restorationist government and clashed with the repressive forces of the state and the thugs of the CCP.
Hernández knows that the reformist policy imposed on hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers led by the Polo Obrero and the Picketer Unity is based on the system of control and discipline to the union bureaucracy, the government and the bourgeois state, which does not represent any danger for the bosses and their businesses, as it has been shown in Argentina.

Frank Hernández knows that this is what is also needed in Cuba to control the hundreds of thousands of hungry workers, despite the fact that he denies that there is hunger and misery. Thus, he embellishes the Díaz Canel government that beat up the workers and young people who revolted on 11J and are today in the dungeons of the restoring regime of capitalism for taking to the streets to fight against the hunger with which Castroism spread around the island after handing it over to imperialism.

Frank wants to control the workers, but under the guise of "self-organization." He knows very well the power that the movement of unemployed workers has; he also knows that the organization without any workers' democracy within it is a safeguard to prevent an uprising from taking place again against the bourgeois government of Díaz Canel and the CCP, which the Stalinist defends tooth and nail because it is his own Communist Party, where he is a member and of which he is a leader.

The Polo Obrero, then, is the example claimed by its Cuban leader Frank Hernández, to set up his policy of demanding, "from the left" the Castro regime of the "nouveau riche" in Havana, in the Cuba of restored capitalism that starves and represses the exploited and oppressed masses.

Walter Torres