How the Workers' Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution: Reviving Socialism after the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Pedro Ross)

How the Workers' Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution: Reviving Socialism after the Collapse of the Soviet Union
How the Workers' Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution: Reviving Socialism after the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Author	Pedro Ross
Publisher	Monthly Review Press
First published	2022
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Foreword

Part One

A Brief Introduction

Why Workers' Parliaments

Fidel Saw It Coming

A Congress in Military Uniforms

What Is a Special Period in Peacetime?

The Fourth Party Congress and the Start of the Special Period

Measures to Address the Crisis

Enemy Encouragement of Social Indiscipline and Vandalism

Fidel Meets the People

The People Respond

"It Is Easier to Find a Dinosaur Crossing the Street Than a Pumpkin in the Market"

It Was Not the First Time

"Yes, We Can"

Why Do Unions Exist?

Analysis, Measures, Actions

The Secondary Ordinary Session of the National Assembly of People's Power

What the Workers Say in the Parliaments

Fidel Reflects, Argues, Gives His Opinion, Promotes Discussion

People Work Because They Must

"We Haven't Always Done Things Right by Consulting"

The Sources of the Black Market

Our Proposal

Workers' Assemblies into Workers' Parliaments

The Call

The Preparation

The Workers Are the Owners

A Light at the End of the Tunnel

Unequivocal Support

Sociopolitical and Opinion Studies: The First Survey

A Vast School of Economics

The Issue of Prices

Reducing Employment Rolls...But How?

Our Meeting with the Cigar Workers' Parliament

Keeping Fidel Informed

With the Milkmen in Pinar del Río

Workers' Parliaments in Camagüey

The Workers' Parliament at the Lenin Central Workshop

With Fidel: Salary Guarantee and Other Topics

The Building Contractor Contingents

Exchanging Ideas with Fidel

Another Survey: Workers Endorse the Parliaments

Assessment Time: What Happened in the Parliaments?

A Faint Ray of Light

The Final Summary of the Workers' Parliaments

The Ministry of Finances and Prices Reports

The Debate

The International Solidarity of Trade Unionists

Conclusions

Part Two

The Nightmare of a Devastating Hurricane

The Origins of Cuban Nationality

A Fecund Truce

Martí's Legacy

The Imperialist Intervention of the United States

The Platt Amendment

The Second Occupation of Cuba by the United States

First Governments of the Neocolonial Republic

The Machado Dictatorship

The September 4 Coup d’état and the 100 Days Government

Historical Significance of the Revolution of 1933

The 1940 Constitution

Fulgencio Batista: Demagogy and Repression

The Authentic Governments

Eduardo Chibás: Decency versus Money

The Coup of March 10, 1952

Popular Repudiation Grows

The Assaults of July 26, 1953

“Condemn Me, It Doesn’t Matter, History Will Absolve Me”

The Release of the “Moncadists”

The Granma

The November 30 Uprising in Santiago de Cuba

The National Liberation War

The Triumph of the Revolution

Cuba Transforms Itself

Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs)

New Paths

The War Against the Bandits

The United States Tries to Isolate Cuba

The Mongoose Plan

The October Crisis

Cuba Built; the United States Attacked

Transformations of Cuban Economy and Society

Rectifying Errors

The Revolution’s Social Initiatives

The Cuban Revolution’s Foreign Policy

Epilogue