Tries to distinguish capitalist unemployment from the lack of jobs due to Cuba's economic constraints. Cubans lead May Day resurgence From South News, May Day 1998. A million people took part in the main parade at Havana's Revolution Square. This year's mobilization is in tribute to the late, charismatic labor leader in the sugar industry, Jesus Menendez, assassinated in 1948 by security forces on the eve of a strike in 1948.
Polarisation is no longer an accurate depiction of the Cuban problem.
New actors, although less visible, are making their presence felt. They include the trade unions. Job dissatisfaction among Cuban workers has grown worse over the last decade, in parallel with the worst economic crisis the socialist government of Fidel Castro has faced.