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, by KELLAWAY Dave
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 young (…)
, by MOLYNEUX John
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 parts (…)
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 (…)
, by KATZ Claudio
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 (…)
, by POST Charles
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 (…)
, by POST Charles
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 socialist (…)
, by LANDAU Saul
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 (…)
, by CARMONA BAEZ Antonio
Introducing “Views on Cuba”
ON THE OCCASION of the 50th year of the Cuban revolution, the editors of Against the Current asked several contributors for brief contributions on how they view Cuban society, politics and culture today. Each statement represents the views of its author. Just as we (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered, Samuel Farber. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006, 212 pages, $19.95 paper.
ONE OF THE most useful works on the Cuban Revolution has appeared with Samuel Farber’s The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered. Its (…)
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