Helen Yaffe

GLW author Helen Yaffe

Cuba: Changes seek more efficient socialism

By Helen Yaffe

The announcement by the Cuban Trade Union Confederation (CTC) on September 13 about plans to reduce the state sector workforce by half a million was greeted by jeering headlines from journalists outside the island.

Cuba is rarely of interest to the corporate press unless they believe there is some crisis to celebrate or that new measures can be interpreted as evidence of a shift from socialism to capitalism.

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Cuba's green revolution — achieving sustainability

By Helen Yaffe

Cuba's successful models of sustainable development — in areas of food, housing and health — are now being widely replicated throughout Latin America.

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