For the hungry, subjected and silenced common Cuban worker, the native form of official socialistic slogans on the power of the workers and government by the workers is a joke, the election of so-called workers' leaders, a mockery, the unconditional submission to and praises of the regime by the executive officer of the CTC, a perfidy. The CTC, the unions and their imposed leaders never disagree with the government, never denounce an injustice, never discover an error or any corruption. The country, ruined, sick and deprived of hope, in the frivolity of their speeches, the intricacy of their ideological dogmatism, lives in the best of worlds. Well, at least these pseudo-leaders, without any given talent or charisma, live better that those whom they claim to represent. Very capable and hard-working professionals are forced to perform work in a disorganized and unprofitable agriculture.
Pensions plunge retired people into a status of misery bordering on mendicity.
Cuban officials insist that the workers rule in socialist Cuba, while the people have little or nothing to eat and are desperate. With thunderous voices and vigorous applause, syndicalists, who memorize large portions of Marx, Engels and Lenin's writings, but who have never put in long hours in a factory, a mine or a sugar cane plantation, ask workers to make more and more sacrifices. Not everything is pessimism in today's Cuban workers' movement, for a free, dissident syndicalism is rising against the governmental anti-worker Cuban Workers' Union. A force which brings cohesiveness and understanding with different groups, a force that has already been identified and can no longer remain unseen, a force that provides an avenue for honest and hard-working people who are hungry for justice, transparency and the truth.