The II Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) approved this Sunday morning a System of political assurance to economic actors, in a session headed by the First Secretary of the organization and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.

Joel Queipo Ruiz, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee and head of the Economic Department, explained that the program “takes place through a system of actions aimed at guiding, accompanying, evaluating and promoting an efficient and effective performance of the economy for the benefit Social”.

The general objective of the system is to continue developing the socialist social identity of the workers and partners, through the articulated direction of the actors of our political system – led by the PCC – in the diversity of spaces and levels, achieving their motivation, organization, training and protagonist participation as subjects of social transformation.

The projection of the system was developed, said the party leader, “in view of the need to stimulate the process of updating the Cuban Socialist Development Model in a context in which the economic, commercial and financial blockade of the US government towards Cuba has intensified, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic ».

As defined in the presented report, an economic actor “is the legal or natural person of the state or non-state sector dedicated to the production, distribution and marketing of goods and provision of services.”

They participate in the economic relations of the territories, such as the municipalities, in order to create «material and spiritual wealth to satisfy the needs of society as a whole, all summoned to promote, each one from their own sphere, the development of the nation”.

Until the first half of October, the actors in the national economic fabric numbered 1,807 state companies; 4,853 agricultural production cooperatives (CPA), credit and service cooperatives (CCS) and basic cooperative production units (UBPC); 423 non-agricultural cooperatives (CNA —this week there were about 430—); 104 micros, medium and small companies (MSMEs – by this time there are already more than 230); 601 383 self-employed workers (TCP); and a hundred joint ventures.

For the dynamization of Cuban economic actors and political assurance, society and the Party have several tools, such as the Conceptualization of the Cuban Economic and Social Model of Socialist Development, the National Plan for Economic and Social Development until 2030, the Guidelines of the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution for the period 2021-2026, and the Economic and Social Strategy, argued Queipo Ruiz.

The report presented by the Head of the Economic Department of the Central Committee of the PCC states that the need for political assurance to all actors is given “by the demands of the transformations of the socialist development model, which implies a type of growth with the consequent transformation structural; the consolidation of values, practices and conceptions that guide and ideologically base the management; and the legitimation of the political project that frames it, through the exercise of the protagonist participation of the workers and the organized people.

“From this transformation, improvement and qualitative leap, with the socialist state enterprise at the fore as the main actor, the achievement of the prosperous and sustainable society that we aspire will depend,” defines the document.

It also points out that the PCC’s political assurance system for economic actors «is a vital tool for —through a work system that brings together all the actors of the Cuban political system, with a social purpose and within the framework of a project policy aimed at the construction of socialism— materialize the work with everyone and for the good of all that we aspire to ».

WITHOUT ECONOMY THERE IS NO SOCIALISM

In the debate prior to the approval of the proposal —which was led by Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary for Organization and Politics of Cadres— a dozen members of the Central Committee of the PCC intervened.

Homero Acosta Álvarez, secretary of the National Assembly of People’s Power and of the Council of State, defined the Political Assurance System for economic actors as a transcendental document.

These actions, he meant, will contribute to a better understanding of the economic model designed from the 6th to the 8th Congress of the PCC, of ​​which there is still no total understanding. It is a task of the Party that this model is understood, which is the one that is in the Constitution of the Republic, he affirmed.

Acosta Álvarez validated the objectives and tasks proposed in this strategy, given the mixture of economic actors and forms of property that have been promoted in the country, and where the socialist state enterprise is the fundamental actor, the one that has to generate the greatest wealth.

However – he pointed out – we have to banish the prejudices that still exist about the non-state sector, which is complementary in general in the economy, but in some areas it is fundamental, not only for generating jobs, but also for its ability to generate goods and provide certain services with much higher quality.

Homero Acosta underlined the purpose of our socialist system to generate the greatest prosperity and well-being for the people; However, he added, prosperity and well-being are not built at once and for everyone in a single moment, they are built day by day.

Cuba – he added – has to seek equality, but not equality of poverty, but equality of well-being, and the vulnerability of people will be banished as more capacity and wealth are generated by all economic actors in the country, state and non-state.

“Without economy,” he said, “there is no socialism, if wealth is not generated, there will be no well-being, and that is what we are looking for.”

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Planning, Alejandro Gil Fernández, pointed out that the nation is entering a stage that imposes a challenge and a challenge on us, not only economically, but also ideologically.

He denounced the manipulation that the enemies of the Revolution are making of non-state, private work, by trying to oppose it to the socialist state enterprise. They try to divide, create a kind of fracture between one sector and another, presenting the private sector as emerging, dynamic, and the state sector as backward, stagnant,” he recalled.

They try to fracture unity, and this is an ideological challenge when it comes to working for the inclusion of all economic actors, which is what is approved in the economic model and is part of the Constitution of the Republic, he stated.

After addressing other challenges and threats in the ideological field, linked to the economy and the life projects of people, especially young people, the Minister of Economy and Planning explained that the socialist state enterprise not only has the economic leadership because it manages the fundamental means of production; It must be —he explained— because it manages these resources efficiently, otherwise, that leadership is not exercised.

The ideological confrontation in this area – he added – we have to win it too; The state business system has to manage the main means of production efficiently, it has that obligation, it has that social responsibility, and so does the non-state sector, which receives all the social benefits that the Revolution provides to all.

Isdalis Rodríguez Rodríguez, member of the National Secretariat of the Central of Cuban Workers, reported on the actions to transform the work of union organizations to increase the role and protagonism of workers in the business sector and the search for greater efficiency.

Miriam Nicado García, Rector of the University of Havana, pointed out that these centers should gradually adjust their study plans to the current economic dynamics, both for those who study these sciences and for the rest of the students, so that when they graduate from the universities and schools have a better economic training, contextualized to the current times.

The item on the agenda of the II Plenum of the Central Committee of the PCC was also headed by Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power; Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister; and Salvador Valdés Mesa, Vice President of the Republic, among other members of the Political Bureau.