In April 2011, after an extensive national consultation process, the Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party (CCP) approved a set of ‘guidelines’ for updating the economic model in Cuba. This followed an announcement by the Cuban Trade Unions Confederation about planned changes to the employment structure in Cuba , including the transfer of a million surplus state-sector workers into new employment.

Click below to download a powerpoint presentation I gave at an RATB educational meeting on 22 May. Ali Erkaslan introduced a discussion about the CCP Congress and I presented the political economy context to these reforms.

Download Understanding developments in Cuba May 2011