Currency Unification: capitalist restoration advances
with hunger, layoffs and price increases

A "combo" of 300% price increases, 300 thousand layoffs in state companies, devaluation, skyrocketing public services fees and inflation rates; ordered by the IMF, the US, French, Spanish and Canadian imperialist companies that plunder the island.
A voracious native bourgeoisie, a minor partner of imperialism, is attacking the poor Cuban people.
A fierce police regime of the Castroite Party, supported by the Catholic Church -as established by the Constitution and the pacts with the Vatican-, prevents the free expression of dissident artists and the formation of any independent union or labor organization that defends the interests of the workers.
The revolutionary socialist parties that face capitalist restoration at the international level, in Latin America and in Cuba, are banned on the island and if they appear publicly, they would be brutally persecuted and imprisoned; nothing different from what Castroism had  done back during the revolution of the 1960s with the Cuban Trotskyists.
They have already installed the free zone in Puerto Mariel and tax-free “maquilas” for the capitalists. They unified the currencies to suit the imperialist investments.
The new Cuban bourgeoisie, servant of Biden and the imperialist Democrats of Wall Street, prepares for the lifting of the US blockade, which they have been throwing on the masses in the last few years, while they saw their pockets enrich with millionaire profits. They are giving the last stitches and finishing to settle the capitalist restoration. Imperialism and the bourgeoisie have already issued a single currency that expresses as a value the real goods produced on the island and acts as a guarantee for the extraction of profits from the capitalists and transnationals based in Cuba. This means exposing openly the Cuban proletariat as merchandise both on the island and internationally. Hence, the brutal devaluation that was imposed on the workers' salary, which ends up liquidating the few gains that remained from the victory of the revolution in the early 1960s.

After selling out the revolutionary processes in Latin America, the new Cuban bourgeoisie raised its war cry years ago: "Socialism is over even in Cuba”

On the island the businesses of the new rich of the CP associated with a world imperialist capitalist system in an open state of decomposition are the only things "not over". The former Stalinist bureaucracy, turned into a new bourgeoisie, has been for years throwing at the masses all the hardships to which the island was led by its infamous policy of "socialism in one (extremely backward) country" while it dedicated itself to strangling and betray all the revolutionary processes in the Americas. Under these conditions, the former Castroite bureaucracy had already taken decisive steps to become a new possessing class and it did so by linking itself more and more to the world imperialist capitalist economy.
In a process of unbridled capitalist restoration and taking advantage of the rise of "friend" Biden in the United States and the momentary ebb of the struggle of the masses in Latin America, the new Cuban bourgeoisie unifies the currency and throws over the workers the crisis caused by a US imperialism partial blockade with even more virulence. It is a partial blockade since it allows the sending of remittances from all Cuban workers who went to work in Miami or other cities in the United States.
Likewise, the Castroite new riches finish organizing the new accounts of the country so that the imperialist capital installed on the island can withdraw its enormous profits with full guarantee, as do the Spanish, Canadian, French and German imperialist companies, which take their profits  in hard currencies or in dollars. These super profits come out, no doubt, from the plundering of Cuba's principal wealth such as nickel, tourism and oil.

Added to this, it is the working masses who pay for the parasitism of tens of thousands of officials of the Communist Party and its caste of officers who, yesterday enjoying multiple privileges, today have become a new possessing class, benefitting from the right of inheritance; in joint ventures with imperialist companies (from which their profits escape to the Bahamas), and by capturing credit to establish bourgeois companies under the cloak of "cooperatives", both in the countryside and in the city.
A rapacious Castroite Bolibourgeoisie has emerged from the bowels of the betrayals to the Latin American and world revolution by Stalinism. They have appropriated the conquests of health and education, which they sell as a true branch of production and business to the different governments of Latin America, especially those that belong to ALBA, a regional market from where, for a long time, they opened Cuba's customs barriers and denationalized foreign trade.
The new rich of the Cuban CP have associated in multiple businesses with the Bolibourgeoisies of Latin America, including the smuggling of exports and imports to Cuba.
We are before a Bolibourgeoisie whose pulse did not tremble to surrender and betray all the revolutionary processes of the continent and even to push for massacres and assassinations of fighters that they themselves led or influenced as they did with sectors of the FARC of Colombia and denouncing the ELN before the fascist Duque government, as they do today, as they had done handing out the enormous revolutions in Nicaragua and El Salvador in the 1980s. It is a new bourgeoisie that is making even more merits to open the doors now to Biden and to become direct agents of US imperialism.

The regime throws the entire crisis of looting and capitalist restoration on the masses. They want the Cuban working class to surrender and destroy in their conscience all defense of the gains of  the socialist revolution victory that they carried out in the 1960s. The Stalinist scoundrel is leading the living conditions of the Cuban masses to be like those that exist in Haiti, Honduras and other countries plundered by imperialism in Latin America and the Caribbean. A true betrayal ... A new 1989 of capitalist restoration is now definitively imposing in full sail, like the one already imposed by the Stalinist scourge in the former USSR, in China, in Vietnam and in eastern Europe, becoming a new possessing class destroying all the conquests of the nationalized productive forces of the former deformed workers' states.
In a particular way, this is a shot in the back to the masses of Latin America and the Caribbean, where the peoples are plunged into the greatest atrocities, misery and looting in history. We are also facing a betrayal to the heroic black people and the working class of the United States who have entered the fight against the decadence and brutal crisis of the rotten capitalist system in the most advanced country on the planet. Meanwhile, from the island, those scoundrel millionaires of Castroism say that "socialism is over even in Cuba." As they did yesterday with Obama and today they do with Biden, they want the exploited in the United States to support the party of imperialist Democrats who have attacked and wiped out all the conquests of the American masses, without having anything to envy to Trump.

The Cuban Communist Party has just unified the dual currency that existed on the island. On the one hand, there was a strong currency, the CUC, which expressed the high-profit and productive branches of production that had already been handed over to imperialism (such as nickel and tourism). The CUC, as a convertible currency face the dollar, guaranteed the new Cuban bourgeoisie its entry into the businesses that opened with regional markets in Latin America, especially since the wake of the 21st century, such as ALBA, UNASUR, MERCOSUR, etc.
On the other hand, there was the other currency, the "cubanito" (little Cuban), equivalent to a salary of 18 dollars for the workers, which expressed the bankruptcy of the nationalized productive forces, such as electricity, telephony, transportation, etc., which were all at the service of providing inputs, cheap energy to and subsidizing transnationals.
Likewise, for the emerging capitalist economy on the island, the so-called "little Cuban" was devalued in relation to the CUC to the extent that it expressed the gains of the masses such as free health and education. This happens in every capitalist economy, where the gains of the masses are a "cost" and an "expense."
It was from this division of currencies in the mid-1990s that the entire transition economy process from capitalism to socialism was interrupted in Cuba and an open regime of capitalist restoration was opened on the island, promoted under the forms of "bureaucratic counterrevolution" by the former Castroite bureaucracy. This counterrevolution was established as of ‘89 with the selling out of the conquests of the former workers' states and later with the selling out of all the revolutionary processes of the continent during the 21st century.

With the unification of currencies today, the new rich of the Cuban CP guarantee imperialism having workers with frozen wages and starvation. It offers them an industrial reserve army and a cheap state with hundreds of thousands of layoffs. They locate the internal costs and the value of the currency at the level of the capitalist world economy, controlled by imperialism, so this brutal devaluation leads to constant inflation and skyrocketing prices. Meanwhile, they reduce the value of labor power and its reproduction to the level of the most deranged and plundered maquiladora countries on the planet. And furthermore, how could it be otherwise, they set the value of the new unified Cuban currency to support investment income and the withdrawal in dollars of the profits of the transnationals that are installed or will be installed in Cuba.
Cargill and the big grain companies are already rubbing their hands. They want the lifting of the US imperialists' blockade to have all the land on the island for just a dime. And together with the Morgan Bank, they seek to appropriate the most succulent businesses in the nation, which are handed out by a cynical Castroite bourgeoisie, while the latter will now be able to show more and more openly their wealth, their private countries, their luxury yachts, their high-end cars. ... Scoundrels! Parasites! Expropriators and thieves of the people's wealth! And on top of that, they have the audacity to call Cuban workers "lazy," whom they have been firing in a frenzy for 10 years, when they have now thrown 500,000 workers out onto the street, in a country where 99% of the production branches were state-owned.

This is the new possessing class that emerged from a fierce Bonapartist regime, a staunch enemy of the working class, of the international revolution and also of any direct workers' democracy. This would mean that the whole impoverished masses could control with their own eyes the illicit enrichment of a very rich and nascent Castroite bourgeoisie, while hunger and rationing roames the island. It is more than clear who really paid for the US imperialists' blockade to Cuba: it was the masses, while a new business-thirsty bourgeoisie got ever richer.

As in the 1960s, a new workers' and socialist revolution must be imposed to defeat imperialism and prevent the handing over of the land to new rich landowners and US imperalists.

For a new worker and peasant revolution, which expropriates the new Castroist bourgeoisie that stole the revolution, the nationalized productive forces and all the conquests from the Cuban workers!

For a revolution of the workers' and soldiers' councils, with workers' democracy and in combat for the Latin American and world socialist revolution!

The devaluation in Cuba is barbaric. The high cost of living cannot be endured. But the Cuban working class has not had its last word. The ultimate destiny of Cuba will be defined not only in the fight of the island's workers, who have already begun to rise up like the dock workers, but of the entire working class of the Americas against imperialism and its lesser partners, the cowardly Latin American bourgeoisies, servants of transnational corporations and Wall Street bankers.

A new capitalist economy is already openly installed on the island, after years of the ex-Stalinist bureaucracy's moving forward in leading the Latin American proletariat to cruel defeats.
In the 1970s, the Cuban working class became enthusiastic and saw the revolutionary struggle of the masses in Latin America and worldwide as their own. For this reason, the role of the old Castroist bureaucracy was to betray those combats to prevent the spread of the Cuban revolution, acting as a true agent of the Moscow bureaucracy -of the "peaceful coexistence" with imperialism. The fact is that Castroism could not enter into an open process of capitalist restoration because the Cuban and Latin American masses would not have allowed it in the revolutionary rise of 1968 -'74. The blood was still hot of Che Guevara, assassinated in Bolivia by the Gurkhish troops of the West Point generals, when these scoundrels of the new Castroite bourgeoisie embraced them, preparing to perform great business together.
In the 1980s, Castroism accompanied the Stalinist and Maoist bureaucracy in their plans for capitalist restoration in all the former workers' states.
In Cuba in those years the dispute was opened about who was going to be the new Cuban bourgeoisie: if the Miami "gusanos" that had been expropriated in the 1960s or the Castro-Stalinist bureaucracy that began to thread a fierce road to become a new owning class. In the last decades, it showed in plenty of instances its proficiency by strangling every revolutionary process there appeared in the Americas, so as to be it, Castroism, the restorationist agent of imperialism by gaining its highest trust.

But it was not easy for the Cuban Stalinist apparatus to restore capitalism when, since 2000, the Latin American masses have been but fighting against imperialism in dozens of uprisings and revolutionary upsurges, which the Cuban working class saw as their own.
Every defeat, betrayal and detour that Stalinism imposed on these heroic battles such as in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Venezuela, Peru, etc. was leaving the Cuban working class isolated and demoralized, and favored the advance of the former Castroite bureaucracy to become a new bourgeoisie, to begin to flaunt its wealth and impose a fierce regime that was increasingly Bonapartist to prevent any democratic loophole for the expression of the masses.
The Obama-Castro pact and the US imperialists' flag flying in Havana in 2015, together with the openly capitalist reforms of the Constitution in 2013, constituted the most daring steps and milestones with which the capitalist restoration took a leap from quantity to quality, becoming Cuba in a new capitalist state in transition. We say that it is transitional in the sense that  the more  the imposition of the new bourgeoisie advances with its pacts with the transnationals in all interstices of the island's economy, the more Cuba advances to be colonized or semi-colonized by the imperialism. This is how Cuba is today; with the capitalist restoration it is heading to be a new US colony, as it was in the time of Batista.

A new worker and peasant revolution to recover the lands and to expel and expropriate imperialism like the one won in 1959-60, is at the top of the agenda as an immediate task.

The industry of tourism, nickel and oil companies must be expropriated and nationalized without compensation; health and education systems must be recovered for the Cuban people. This is the way to collect funds to re-industrialize and re-invest in the lands, currently left without productivity by the new bourgeoisie. These measures attacking capitalists and imperialism’s business will improve masses’ lives. They will mean expelling high officers of the state, who come from Stalinism, and the army officer caste.

This new revolution would place once again the island as the vanguard and bastion of socialist revolution for all the Americas.
The current task is expropriating the wealth and goods of the new Castroite bourgeoisie without compensation and dissolving and judging and punishing the coward officer caste who sold out the worker and peasant resistance in Latin America.

A bourgeois Stalinist party, based on the officer caste of the Cuban Army, behaved as a referee among the bourgeois gangs eager for business, in order to make capitalist restoration gradual, constantly preventing the uprising of the anti-imperialist Cuban working class and the convergence with the struggle of workers and peasants of Latin America and the US workers; a Bonapartist gang that even repressed those wings of their own bureaucracy who threatened to go too fast in the capitalist restoration, endangering the whole plan of the new emerging bourgeoisie before the masses’ eyes.
There is only one choice for the Cuban working class: dissolving and defeating the Castroite counterrevolutionary party and expropriating all the goods from the Church, which is supported by the state.

Factory committees and independent unions must be set up to defend working class’ interests. Self-defence and strike pickets must be set up to face the fierce repression of the state and its intelligence services. Every rebel student and artist must be called to meet the struggle for organizing independent unions and worker and poor people’s councils. This is the road followed by big sectors of the Chinese Communist Youth who, rebelling against Stalinism and red businesspeople of the CP, and even working underground, have placed a milestone of organizing unions in the prison-factories.

Rank and file soldiers must be won for this struggle, together with the councils of workers, consumers and rebel students. Those soldiers must be the partisans of the revolution and not the bodyguards of the new and fierce native bourgeoisie, linked to imperialism and their intelligence services.
The councils of armed workers and peasants should decide which parties and currents can be legal and enjoy full rights to fight for their ideas.

A new socialist Cuban revolution will be the only way to end wage inequality and rip all medals and privileges off the former bureaucracy, enemy of the people. It will be the only one that can guarantee breaking with imperialism and recovering the land and tourism and ending with the brothel that the Cuba is becoming now in the hands of the gang of the new rich.
This new revolution would be the spearhead to defeat all the plans of surrender and betrayal by Stalinism to the revolution in the American continent, like its infamous agreements with native bourgeoisie and the agreements for selling out the struggle of the US working class and the black people to their executioners, the Democrats of Wall Street. This revolution would expose the impostors of “socialism”, multimillionaires like Sanders and his partner, Ocasio Cortez.

The rebelled workers and peasants of Latin America need “two or three victorious Vietnam” more than ever, and a revolutionary and socialist Cuba to be the starting point of socialist revolution from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. Breaking the isolation and the blockade against Cuba will be guaranteed by the world working class, benefiting the Cuban workers; or the new Castroite bourgeoisie will break the isolation by openly agreeing with imperialism to transform Cuba into a new Haiti. That is why Cuba will be socialist or a new US colony.

Just as in 1989, the renegades of Trotskyism are at the feet of Stalinism, but now openly associated with it in common parties around the world

Imperialism and the Latin American bourgeoisies are waging a huge battle in Cuba, where they see they are advancing fast. However, they don’t advance because of the power of their capitalist system, as it is falling apart in the midst of an unlimited crash, taking the subjugated peoples of the Americas and the US working class to barbarism.

This new “1989” that they are trying to settle down in Latin America with the capitalist restoration in Cuba benefits with the help of the renegades of Trotskyism, liquidators of the Fourth International; as in 1989, where they stood in solidarity and supported shamelessly Gorbachev, and also the Chinese “mandarins” with whom they later founded the World Social Forum. Before that, they had been in united fronts with Stalinism in the West for decades, in which they handed over our Fourth International each day, each year, each decade.

Castroism, today became into a new bourgeoisie, cannot speak anymore on behalf of the socialist revolution to sell it out from within. They did so in Chile in the 70’s with the “peaceful way to socialism” rip-off. But today, the facts are proving that they have sold out the revolution. That’s why, in a cynical way, this new bourgeoisie, from their comfortable armchairs, and managing dollars, gave some small change to a group of the Communist Youth for it to call in 2019 all the “Trotskyists” of Latin America and the world to make a “reconciliation” pact between Stalinists and Trotskyists and hug each other in Havana, the same place where Mercader had been received with honors after killing Trotsky. It is a pact where they announced they recognized Trotsky as a personality of the Communist movement, in reciprocity with the recognizing of the Stalinist Grasmci as a revolutionary in the ‘30s, made by most of the former Trotskyists.
Today, absolutely all the renegades of Trotskyism, such as Alan Woods, the “anticapitalists” of the SWP, the FIT-U group in Argentina, etc., traveled to La Havana usurping the banners of the Fourth International and were part of that "common hugging" to legitimize the counterrevolutionary policy of the Stalinist scum.
Before that, parties such as the PCL of Italy, PO of Argentina, EEK of Savas Matsas of Greece had called to “re-found the Third International” together with Mitina, a de facto secretary of foreign relations for the murderer Putin. Mitina was the organizer of counterrevolutionary fifth-column type brigades that went to discipline the rebel brigades in Donbass, Ukraine.
Today, the renegades of Trotskyism are together in a single party with the Stalinists around the world. They are applying the latter's policy of “peaceful way to socialism” which in Chile today means to exchange the fight in Dignity Square for a Pinochetista rigged Constituent assembly supported by all these currents. They are the ones that refused to fight to set up armed workers and soldiers' councils in Ecuador when the masses split the army from its rank and file with a workers and peasants' uprising in 2019. They give their lives in exchange for seats in the Argentinean Parliament to integrate that den of bandits, Wall Street front-men. They are the so called “anti-capitalists”, which are such as Sanders, or Podemos of the Spanish State, the most useful ones to support the biggest capitalists in the world. They are the ones that cry out loud that there is nothing to do except fighting for a “broader and more generous democracy” for the exploited, so condemning the workers to have their hands tied and not entering the road of revolution. 
Some of them reached even further. They did the same as Stalinism in the ‘30s when it opened the way for Hitler’s victory in Germany. This has happened in Bolivia. One of the most decomposed parties of the Fourth International, POR, supported the Banzerista generals and Añez's coup d’état.
All of them have their hands stained with blood in Syria, where they supported the fascist al-Assad. Those who have not, have instead supported the Kurdish Stalinism of PKK, which in a pact with Bashar the dog and his boss Putin crushed the heroic Syrian revolution.
Today, in a shameless way, they discuss whether the 1959 Cuban revolution was “socialist”, “anti-capitalist”, “transitional”, etc. But all of them recognize that the Kurdish “communes” run by Stalinism and the bourgeoisie, under the command of the US military bases, are “revolutionary democratic communes”. They are the trash left, the one that sold out the Fourth International, they reached as low as Stalinism with Hitler in 1939 (Molotov-Ribentropp pact), in Bolivia with the Banzerista generals and in Syria with the fascist al-Assad.
Truth must be told. The biggest tragedy of the Cuban and Latin American working class is the leadership crisis, which is no other thing than the over-abundance of treacherous leaderships that this time is concrete with the definitive sellout of the Fourth International to the Stalinist scum.
Nevertheless, they won’t remain unpunished for this. Trotskyism is a material force. Its program and theory have passed the test of history. In Cuba, all those who claimed that in there it was “the greatest revolutionary leadership in history after Lenin and Trotsky” broke their teeth. All the leaders of the Fourth International in the 1960s and ‘70s said that. In Cuba all the renegades of Trotskyism that traveled to Havana to hug the Stalinist scum have been openly exposed. They are so servile that they didn’t even complain they were not allowed to visit a single factory, a single classroom of the university to raise the positions of socialism they claim to defend.
In Havana it has been exposed who is with the Cuban dock workers in strike, with the right for freedom of cultural expression of the rebel youth, or for removing all rights out off the new Castroite bourgeoisie, its Stalinist party and the Catholic Church (which is legal after a pact of the Pope with Castro) and who is not for it. We Trotskyists are to promote a new socialist revolution in Cuba, this time led by a revolutionary leadership, supported in the soviet democracy of the workers and soldiers' councils, as an indivisible part of a single revolution in Latin America and the US.
The new Castro-Stalinist bourgeoisie has unified the currencies in La Havana. From there, some small change will fall into the pockets of the trade union bureaucracies and the reformist left leaderships, in order for them to strangle the mass revolutionary struggles… Rascals!
The revolutionary re-foundation of Cuban Trotskyism will be inseparable from the struggle for the Fourth International and for the definitive defeat of Stalinism.  The latter has been preserved and organized by the imperialist bourgeoisie and all the capitalists for them to control the world proletariat after the sellout of the workers states in 1989. The Stalinist scum was prepared for it. What the proletariat couldn’t expect was that the ones that white-washed the face of Stalinism, revived it, made a pact with it, and today handed over the world party of the socialist revolution, would emerge from the revolutionary movement of the Fourth International.

In Cuba, as in the entire Latin America, Trotskyism vs Stalinism see each other's face. The Trotskyists continue to fight for recovering the clean banners of the Fourth International, that the capitulators and opportunists surrendered to Stalinism and imperialism.