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EUROPE 6 issues. £1.15 12 issues £2.30 24 issues £4.60 TH £1.50 £3.00 ·$6.00 a subscription to Se ›cialist issues, I enclose I 31, Dartmouth Parl k Hill, Lon WORKERS is, the entire Cuban economy apart from 100,000 land-owning peasants, a few taxi-drivers and all chiropodists).

Now monetary payments between enterprises (ineffictive since the early 1960s and abolished from 1967) are reintroduced.

All enterprises are expected to make a protit ana, wille there will be a live year national plan giving output targets for the major industries, economic decisions are general decentralised to the individual enterprise level.

Loss-making enterprises may be deliberately subsidised by the state or they may obtain loans from the Central BAnk at "commercial' rates of interest - failing this, they must cut costs, introduce speed-up, redundancies or even face closure.

New material incentives will be devised to encourage managers and workers in successful enterprises.

All this was justified by what Castro calls the "socialist" principle of distribution - 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his work'.

TROTSKY

But, as Trotsky pointed out in relation to a similarly argued change in the Soviet Union in 1936, it is inclination rather than ability which is involved; and basing incomes on labour expended is anyway a bourgeois principle of distribution.

Such a principle is historically necessary due to the low development of the material forces of production. It is a serious error to make virtues of necessities. agricultural plan.

Their resistance produced som amendments and an energeti reassurance by Castro that th measure would be implemente very slowly and without an compulsion.

In all other respects the Congres which devoted so many words ti discussing democratic reforms showed only a new attempt ti consolidate bureaucratic power.

The increasing attention ti democratic forms, however, is al indication of the growing resistanc of the masses of Cuban workers tr sudden twists in policy ani economic failures. For th headssary but Contradictory is policy