Doug
Heh, Heh, Heh...Quoting from pg. 24 of, "Cuba: Radical Face of Stalinism, " by John Lister, Left View Books, London, 1985. "The sectarian trajectory of the Third Period policy was ably summed up in the April '34 Cp Congress resolution which explained that :
The fundamental danger lies in the influence of the bourgeois- landlord parties of the, "left, " and it's reformist, anarchist, Trotskyite agents...
Three yrs. later...'36 CC resolution: "The Cuban Revolution is at present passing through it's national phase, and in this phase the revolutionary role played by other strata besides the proletariat and the peasants must not be underestimated...all strata of the population ranging from the proletariat to the national bourgeoisie, fraternally linked by a common interest in the liberatioon of our country, can and must build a broad popular front against the foreign oppressors...
The Batista regime had several Communist ministers. One of them Carlos Rafeal Rodriguez is still prominent in the Castro leadership.
Quoting from a pamphlet by two leaders of the Cuban CP, Blas Roca and Lazaro Pena of the CTC, in '45, "Collaberation Between Workers and Employers, " >"...at present, the working class's patriotic policy of national unity is at it's own initiative; workers are not prohibited from striking- rather they are rising above their petty interests and demanding a policy of no strikes, a policy of maintaining production and a policy of national unity, thus showing that they are the most patriotic, most responsible and most capable class in society today...
Michael Pugliese