Ways to improve the
Young Communist League
take center stage
Styles of working bound to restrain our youth’s missions are discussed
by the general evaluation meeting of the UJC in Camagüey province.
By:
Yahily Hernández Porto / E-mail:
digital@jrebelde.cip.cu
A CubaNews
translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. Original:
http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2007-11-29/analizan-con-profundidad-como-mejorar-la-union-de-jovenes-comunistas/
November 29, 2007 -
00:17:00 GMT
CAMAGÜEY.– A
member of the UJC grassroots cell at the provincial headquarters of
MINAGRI (Ministry of Agriculture), Dayamí Rodríguez Sosa put things at
boiling point in the general evaluation meeting when she said: «We must
make a revolution in our organization’s work once and for all». As if on
cue, she thought of the countless times they have talked about changing
methods and styles of working.
She dropped her
comment just a few minutes into the debate, bringing up what very often
tends to curb and restrain our youth’s performance beyond the UJC’s
boundaries.
Her reflection
hung in the air for a moment, certainly enough to goad the 300 plus
participants into open debate.
«The communist
youth must definitely understand that the UJC’s success lies in that
change, considering the organization’s mission of transforming its
surrounding environment and the community, wherever that may be»,
stressed the young woman.
In her words we
can discern an organization yet to undertake the systematic, in-depth
analysis demanded by real life: «How can we let our institutions’
problems parade unnoticed right in front of UJC members, whose fighting
spirit must prevail both on conviction and principle?».
There was
widespread agreement that the assessment of those styles and methods are
neither a straitjacket nor an article we buy in a store, but the logical
interpretation of a grassroots cell’s performance striving to find out
how to change them.
Such was the
point made by Maryanys Leyva, from the field of culture.
«The ‘how’ is the
key to the Organization’s triumph, and that ‘how’ is in and among us, in
our schools and workplaces, in our needs, and in the character of our
membership», she said, highlighting the no-nonsense approach to be
adopted by all the participants and the overall communist organization,
whose members are aware that the solution to a problem may be near at
hand, within the grassroots cell itself.
Above any other
reasoning, this viewpoint also reveals the lack of an objective
construction of the reality where each structure plays its role.
What emerges from
these opinions is that it takes a UJC member to know how to work better.
No one better than the membership to tell our youth and even enterprise
directors how to solve the problems facing every worker, be they young,
old, members or nonmembers.
In other words, a
formula cannot be imported, let alone any ‘how-tos’ or strategies from
‘the great beyond’, without an exchange of views within the members
themselves.
As Dayami
reasserted, «MINAGRI’s concerns, namely the exodus of young people to
the city, the elimination of marabú
and the production of milk and other products, must be essentially dealt
with in our midst, implementing our own ideas and demanding the Boards
of Directors to take early measures to solve them, if it comes to that».
On this matter,
UJC first secretary Julio Martínez Ramírez stated: «Our foremost concern
is the quality of every member, present or future, as it entails a
higher degree of commitment by our youths».
Martínez Ramírez
insisted that the organization must find a way to excel on the basis of
its profound analyses, early warnings and demands for a response from
any entity. «Otherwise, we would not be speaking for the youth and much
less fulfilling our duty, as requested by Fidel and Raúl», he
emphasized.
It was not by
sheer chance that Jorge Enrique Sutil Sarabia, confirmed as the UJC
first secretary in Camagüey province, pointed out that the organization
must devote more time to getting these projects of change off the ground
and leave behind all trite, conceptual generalizations of the problems
found along the road without first solving them within the grassroots
cell.
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