ABSTRACT
Some institutions primarily responsible for promoting and guarding socialist legality in Cuba are the court system, the Procurator General and the Ministry of Justice. The courts and the judiciary have gone through substantial transformation and modernization since the revolution. Cuba continues to experiment with and develop non-judicial forums for the resolution of claims in the areas of labor rights and domestic relations. One of the early acts of the revolutionary government was to bring the judiciary under its control and influence. By 1967, the turmoil that ensued from revolutionary transformation had subsided and most counter-revolutionary violence had ended. The conflicting legal philosophies of Santiago Cuba and Menendez manifest the fundamental incompatibility of the bourgeois concept of the judiciary and the radical nature of revolutionary justice. The People's Popular Courts reflected the idealistic desire to democratize justice, at least at its most popular level.
