Cuban Economics

## **Cuban Economy**

* "Fidel Castro's legacy: Cuba as a class society" by pablo Velasco and Sacha ismail https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2012/02/29/cuba-class-society [EN] (Trotskyist organization)
* "Echanges 62 - October-December 1989" https://libcom.org/library/echanges-62-october-december-1989 [EN] (libertarian communist archive, Fidel called himself state capitalist)
* "Tyrannies Ruling in the Name of Socialism" by Paul D'Amato https://socialistworker.org/2013/12/06/ruling-in-the-name-of-socialism [EN]

### **Research papers**

* Santos, Emanuel (2018) "Sugarcane Stalinism: State-Capitalism and Development in Cuba," https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/vol6/iss2/2 [PDF, 246KB, EN]

### **News articles**

* “William Lee Brent 1930-2006: A 1998 Conversation in Havana with the Former Black Panther on His Plane Hijacking, Life in Cuba and Much More” https://www.democracynow.org/2006/11/22/william\_lee\_brent\_1930\_2006\_a [EN]
* "Analysis: Soaring international prices aggravate Cuban food crisis" by Marc Frank https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/soaring-international-prices-aggravate-cuban-food-crisis-2021-05-20/ [EN] (archived: https://archive.is/V6Hqr)
* "Cubans fret as government prepares currency unification" by Rosa Tania Valdes https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-reform-money/cubans-fret-as-government-prepares-currency-unification-idUSBREA2G1CE20140317 [EN]
* "Cuba suspending cash bank deposits in dollars, citing U.S. sanctions" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuba-suspending-cash-bank-deposits-dollars-citing-us-sanctions-2021-06-11/ [EN]
* "Cuba opens up its economy to private businesses" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55967709 [EN] (British state-owned media)

### **Magazine articles**

* "Cuba Without the Castros" by Andrés Pertierra https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/cuba-without-the-castros [EN]
* "People in Havana Talk" by Leonardo Padura https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online\_articles/people-in-havana-talk [EN]
* "Cuba: From State to Private Capitalism: Adios Socialismo" by Walker Lane https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/383-summer-2010/cuba-state-private-capitalism/ [EN]
* "The Train to Matanzas: Cuba: A tsunami of tourism & foreign investment hits the island" by Peter Werbe https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/396-summer-2016/the-train-to-matanzas/ [EN]
* "Cuba’s New Constitution: Bye-Bye Communism & Gay Rights; Hello Private Property & Censorship" by Peter Werbe https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/403-spring-2019/cubas-new-constitution/ [EN]
* "Organic Cuba: Farming and Politics" by Citizen Cane https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/354-spring-2000/organic-cuba/ [EN]

### **Blog posts**

* “Comunicado del Taller Libertario Alfredo López de La Habana” https://centrosocialabra.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/comunicado-del-taller-libertario-alfredo-lopez-de-la-habana/ [ES]; “Statement From The Alfredo López Anarchist Workshop In Havana” https://loveandragemedia.org/2021/01/05/statement-from-the-alfredo-lopez-anarchist-workshop-in-havana/ [EN]
* "Day Zero: how and why Cuba unified its dual currency system" by Helen Yaffe https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2021/02/10/day-zero-how-and-why-cuba-unified-its-dual-currency-system/ [EN]
* "Day Zero" by Helen Yaffe https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/day-zero-in-cuba [EN]

### **Books**

* “Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution” by Helen Yaffe https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=B0DC913921BFD34A9B1B3F8EBF0502CF [PDF, 1MB, EN]
* “Ernesto Che Guevara, Socialist Political Economy and Economic Management in Cuba 1959-1965” by Helen Yaffe https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=03D01B48A59C8562AC0ACF330E503391 [PDF, 14MB, EN]

### **Videos**

* “How Cuba Works | BadEmpanada” uploaded by BadEmpanada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXBYlC4-0bQ [31:31, EN] (Marxist-Leninist, member of Solidarity with Cuba, supports Vietnam [Laos is client-state of Vietnam] and Rojava, white Australian settler with Greek ancestry living in Argentina; has extremely abrasive personality on Twitter and Reddit and is considered as an irony-poisoned bro)
* "The U.S. Embargo on Cuba Is MUCH WORSE Than It Seems" uploaded by BadEmpanada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM7\_wTqDUCU [4:10, EN] (Marxist-Leninist, member of Solidarity with Cuba, supports Vietnam [Laos is client-state of Vietnam] and Rojava, white Australian settler with Greek ancestry living in Argentina; has extremely abrasive personality on Twitter and Reddit and is considered as an irony-poisoned bro)
* "How Cuban agriculture went from industrial to sustainable" uploaded by Our Changing Climate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ0tovrhf5Y [6:52, EN]

### **Websites**

* "Archivo Histórico de Cancillería" http://desclasificacion.cancilleria.gov.ar/ [ES] (contains declassified documents of secret cables and agreements between Argentina and Cuba)
* "Comunistas" https://www.comunistascuba.org/ [ES]

### **Quotes**

* “[...] ‘socialist’ Cuba is really a society based on wage labor and capital accumulation. The defining characteristics of this society, to which we will assign the designation ‘state-capitalism’, are the hyper-concentration of capital and collective exercise of de facto control over the means of production by a state bourgeoisie.” (Santos, 2018)

### **Notes**

* If someone has a quote from Ernesto "Che" Guevara and still approves of Khrushchev, Deng or Xi, reminds them that he hated revisionists