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An extract from the upcoming release “Che Guevara: The Romantic Revolutionary” by Allan Todd, published by Pen and Sword.
Until relatively recently, most books about Che focussed almost exclusively on him as an adventurous travel writer, a romantic revolutionary and an exponent of guerrilla (...)
Of all the tributes to Fidel Castro and assessments of the Cuban leader’s contribution to the world socialist movement, this one by Argentine political economist Claudio Katz seems to me particularly outstanding. It was published first on his web site. My translation and notes.
Richard (...)
Dave Kellaway reflects.
Dishevelled and defeated after the bloody attack on the Moncada barracks; walking free from prison into exile in a smart suit; interviewed by a US journalist in his mountaintop hideout in 1958; triumphantly marching into Havana with Che, Cienfuegos and the other (...)
Millions of radicals, leftists, socialists and anti-imperialists around the world will be saddened by the announcement of the death of the leader of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro, at the age of 90. He will, obviously, be particularly mourned in much of Latin America, Africa and other (...)
Fidel Castro was a towering champion of the oppressed, but we shouldn’t ignore the limits of the socialism he helped build.
Fidel Castro was, by any standards, a towering figure. In his frail late years his presence still resonated across Latin America, even among generations that did not (...)
The Cuban revolutionary almost outlasted 11 US presidents.
Fidel Castro is dead at 90. He took power in 1959, at the head of the joyful, raucous, and brash Cuban Revolution, which was immediately placed under siege by Washington. Castro almost outlasted 11 US presidents—Eisenhower, Kennedy, (...)
Fidel’s genius was his ability to meet the need for tactical steps, responding to the day’s urgencies, without losing sight of the strategic direction.
It could have been the armed struggle, terrorism, assassination or the serious illness which, at his own admission, nearly killed him in (...)
Review: Samuel Farber. The Politics of Che Guevara: Theory and Practice. Haymarket Books, 2016, 120 pages + bibliography, notes and index, $16.95 paperback.
IN HIS INTRODUCTION Samuel Farber explains why he wrote The Politics of Che Guevara: Theory and Practice. “To many of the contemporary (...)
At an academic symposium I attended a few years ago, a well-known scholar from Havana used his allotted twenty minutes to explore the link between labor activism and revolutionary politics in Cuban history. Complicating his task was the lack of available source material, particularly for the (...)
President Obama visits Cuba tomorrow, where he will draw the ire of a Cuban right that has long curried favor with Washington.
Barack Obama’s arrival in Cuba tomorrow will mark the first visit by a United States president to the island since Calvin Coolidge went in 1928. His trip follows (...)
Release of Cuban Five opens new chapter in Cuba-US relations
Introduction
The release December 17 of the remaining three of five Cubans held for 15 years in US prisons is an historic victory for the Cuban people, their government and supporters around the world.
Ramon Labañino, Geraldo (...)
Idalberto Ferrera Acosta (1918-2013), Cuban Trotskyist
Photo by Sebastian Brulez (December 2006)
Last July 2, 2013, Idalberto Ferrera Acosta, age 95, died in Havana. Idalberto devoted his entire life to the Revolution. In 1933-1934 he joined the Bolshevik-Leninist Party, the Cuban (...)
Review: Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment. By: Samuel Farber. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2011, 378 pp., $24 paper
Since the 1930s, most of the international left has defined their “socialism” not as the uncompromising defense of working class self-organization and (...)
In January 2011, members of the Participatory and Democratic Socialism Movement proposed that the Cuban Communist Party adopt its “Proposals for the Advance of Socialism in Cuba.” (“Socialism and the ’Citizens’ Demand for Another Cuba,” Pedro Campos, Havana Times, June 24, 2012) These (...)
Review. Who Killed Che? How the CIA got away with murder. By Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith. New York: Or Books, 2011, 200 pages, $16 paperback.
IN COMPELLING DETAIL, two leading civil rights attorneys — both leaders of the Center for Constitutional Rights (New York) — recount the (...)
Book Featured In This Story: The Brilliant Disaster. JFK, Castro, and America’s Doomed Invasion of Cuba’s Bay of Pigs by Jim Rasenberger. Scribner. Hardcover, 460 pages
Fifty years ago Sunday, a brigade of around 1,500 CIA-trained soldiers stormed the beach in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs. It was the (...)
In late September 2009, shortly after Fidel Castro and I exchanged hugs of greeting, I flashed back to my first visits to Cuba, in 1960 and 1961. In the six months I spent there, I experienced a sense of creative anarchy in which people my age (I was 24) ran government ministries and the (...)
We are reproducing below two contributions, published in the US magazine “Against the Current”, debating Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy’s book on Che Guevara and Che’s legacy.
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A Letter on Che
— Peter Drucker
NOW THAT I’VE (...)
Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society we would have. Today, the discussion centres on whether human society will survive. These are not dramatic phrases. We must get used to the true facts. Hope is the last thing human beings can relinquish. With truthful (...)
IN AN ARTICLE published in 1928, José Carlos Mariátegui, the true founder of Latin American Marxism, wrote: “Of course, we do not want socialism in Latin America to be an imitation or a copy. It must be a heroic creation. We must inspire Indo-American socialism with our own reality, our own (...)
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