With strikes and stopping the port, the workers face devaluation and the brutal attack of the Stalinist government of the new Cuban Boli-bourgeoisie.
They agreed with imperialism the capitalist restoration in the island.
The uprising of dock workers in Havana has started!
The new Castroite bourgeoisie launched a brutal hike in utility fees on the Cuban masses with the unification of the currency. This means a deep devaluation of the Cuban peso, with which the workers wages are paid (different from the convertible peso) the only one that will be used after the unification of the currency. The new wage scale that will be imposed in the island starting from January 1st and the subsidies that could still be in force, won’t be able to cope with it. It is a vile deception, that exposes the misery and brutal slave work conditions of the masses.
This is what the huge uprising of the state dock workers of Havana is responding to. They are waging battle. On December 24, the workers of the afternoon shift downed tools and stopped the fertilizers cargo that entered the port, because they don’t know how they will be paid for their work. The denounce of the dock workers is that with the re-structuring of the wage scale, they will get a basic wage of 2,420 pesos (101 dollars approximately) compared to the office personnel and officials of the company that their basic wage will start in 4,000 pesos (167 dollars approximately). This is what the dock worker Dominguez Herrera denounces through his Facebook account: “How can they place us in a wage scale without analyzing the conditions in which we, stevedores, work? The workers have no day off for national holiday; they are family parents, households and efficient workers who work steadfast every day” (Radio Television Marti, December 28 2020). Also, with the hikes in fees, the prices of food will rise and that miserable wage will be undermined by inflation, because the unification of the currency mounts to a 250% devaluation.
This uprising of the dock workers is the first public protest against the wage re-structuring and a show that the workers are waging a hardbattle against the new Castroite bourgeoisie. Days ago, Castroism didn’t hesitate in imprisoning and suppressing the musicians and artists that rose for freedom of expression.
The denounce of the dock workers is not only against the government, but also against the Cuban Workers Central (CTC) for which this dock worker denounced the state-ization of that organization, because it does not defend workers at all: “...On the contrary: humiliating, attacking the Cuban worker has been the role played by the CTC, always”. Down with the state-ization of the workers organizations!
The new Castroite bourgeoisie became millionaire at the expense of starvation, exploitation and misery of the masses. Just look at the business deals they do with health, that today are shown with the departure of 220 Cuban doctors to Panama, under the COVID pretext. The Panama bourgeoisie with its government will pay to the new bourgeoisie of the Cuban CP more than 1,350,000 dollars in only three months (they could be extended) but only a misery will reach the doctors from that amount, because, according to the bourgeois press: “The Cuban government uses to keep at least 75% of what the countries that hire the Cuban professional’s work pay, although the conditions imposed to the workers change according to the destination.” (Diario de Cuba, December 25 2020). This way, the new bourgeoisie of the Cuban government sells the doctor’s labour force to the ALBA and Latin American market. It exploits that labour force as a hiring agency. This is just a show that, on behalf of socialism and the revolution, this new bourgeoisie is the greatest exploiter of the workingclass and the restoration of capitalism in the island as servant of imperialism.
Long live the uprising of the dock workers of Havana! Down with the scam of the Bolivarian revolution! The only ones that make business deals are imperialism and the miserable boli-bourgeoisies, that get richer at the expense of starvation and more slavery of the Cuban workers!
Full rights for the workers to organize free unions, independent from the state and the CCP, to defend themselves from the attack of the government and the capitalists! Raise the wages according to the cost of living and not the miserable basic basket fixed by the CCP government!
To have bread, work, wages, health and housing, it is necessary to expropriate the expropriators of the people! The hotels, mines, land, factories are for the workers and peasants, the ones that made the revolution! Re-nationalize the companies that were handed over to the transnational companies by the CCP without compensation and place them under workers control! Immediate impoundment of the assets and dollars that the former bureaucrats who became new rich, stole from the people!
The road to break the blockade is the unity with the black workers and the workers fighting in the streets of the US. From Havana to Minneapolis, one single fight! One single struggle with the Latin American workers!
For the restoration of the dictatorship of the proletariat under revolutionary ways! We need to prepare a new socialist revolution, with armed councils of workers, peasants and soldiers that defeat the government of Diaz Canel, crush the bourgeois state and expropriate imperialism and the new rich of the CCP, servants of the US.
Out with the new Castroite bourgeoisie, born from the CP!
No more ALBA, where only the Cuban bourgeoisie do great business deals!
Open the road to the socialist revolution in the entire Latin America, the Caribbean and the US!
Juan Sanchez and Ivi García
For the la Liga Socialista
de los Trabajadores Internacionalistas of Bolivia |