March 2010
Cuba: The danger in not putting on one's boots
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
By Luis Sexto
I invite to polemics and urge honesty when I say that a real, palpable ghost is still haunting Cuba: the debate.
In figures that for now seem indefinable, Cubans are discussing Cuba's immediate future. And in a kind of enclosed chamber we find the anonymous commentary heard on streets, the proposals in work centers, the office chat, the conclusions in economic and sociological studies, and theoretical, critical and sometimes irreverent articles disseminated on the Internet or the Intranet, but professing to be of the socialist faith.
CUBA: Time for changes & responsibility
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
ByAriel Terrero
ariel@cubaprofunda.org
From the blog Cubaprofunda
I have a friend who is irritated by the word “change,” when used to describe transformations begun in Cuba's economic model, visible or foretold in various fields and activities – in agriculture, investment strategy, decentralized schemes of financing for exporting sectors, wage systems, etc.
Has the World Social Forum been co-opted by capitalism? Does it have a future?
March 3, 2010 -- Olivier Bonford and Eric Toussaint are members of the International Council of the World Social Forum (WSF) and of the the Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt (CADTM). In this interview with Marga Tojo Gonzales, they discuss the future and role of the World Social Forum as it enters its second decade. They also examine the relationship between the WSF and the call for a Fifth Socialist International by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. Translated by Vicki Briault and Christine Pagnoulle.
