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Fidel in the Cuban Socialist Revolution
The book makes accessible a selection of speeches and television appearances by Fidel Castro during the first two years of the Cuban Revolution. Readers can trace the evolution of this legendary leader’s radical political thought and analyze his extraordinary capacity for overcoming adverse political and ideological circumstances in a constant movement towards a socialist ideal. The work is organized chronologically with introductory presentations prepared by Cuban experts José Bell, Tania Caram and Delia Luisa López and includes a glossary and bibliography. The methodology of this work is original and includes material from 1959 not previously published elsewhere.
The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World
This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of activism, political strategies and transnational networks. Comprising twenty-five chapters, based on new and primary research, the book presents the lives of self-identified communist women from a truly international perspective and outlines their struggles against fascism and colonialism, and for women’s emancipation and national liberation. By using the lens of transnational political biography, the chapters capture the broader picture of these women’s lives, unpacking the links between the so-called public and private, the power structur...
Cuba in a Global Context
Cuba in a Global Context examines the unlikely prominence of the island nation's geopolitical role. The contributors to this volume explore the myriad ways in which Cuba has not only maintained but often increased its reach and influence in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. From the beginning, the Castro regime established a foreign policy that would legitimize the revolutionary government, if not in the eyes of the United States at least in the eyes of other global actors. The essays in this volume shed new light on Cuban diplomacy with communist China as well as with Western governments such as Great Britain and Canada. In recent years, Cubans have improved their lives in the face o...
Socialism Betrayed
"A fresh multi-faceted look at the overthrow of the Soviet State, the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, and the campaign to introduce capitalism from above. Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny have given us a clear and powerful Marxist analysis of the momentous events which most directly shaped world politics today, the destruction of the USSR, the 'Superpower' of socialism." -Norman Markowitz, author of The Rise and Fall of the People's Century "I have not read anything else with such detailed and intimate knowledge of what took place. This manuscript is the most important contribution I have read." -Phillip Bonosky, author of Afghanistan-Washington's Secret War "A well-researched work containing a great deal of useful historical information. Everyone will benefit greatly from the mass of historical data and the thought-provoking arguments contained in the book." -Bahman Azad, author of Heroic Struggle Bitter Defeat: Factors Contributing to the Dismantling of the Socialist State in the USSR
A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution
Organized labor in the 1950s -- A crisis of productivity -- The employers' offensive -- Workers take stock -- Responses to state terror -- Two strikes -- Last days of Batista -- The first year of the new Cuba -- Conclusion: what was the role of organized labor in the Cuban insurrection?
Aging and Generations in Cuba
This book analyzes the evolution of the eldercare crisis in Cuba under the influence of advanced demographic aging, a prolonged economic crisis, and growing contradictions between the needs, values, and aspirations of the various generations.
The Cuban Revolution as Socialist Human Development
The book argues that the Cuban Revolution warrants a closer look as a model of socialist human development. A re-reading of the Cuban Revolution from this angle engages unresolved issues in the theory of socialist humanism and the notion of human development popularized by the United Nations Development Programme (i.e., predicated on capitalism). UNDP economists and other agencies of international cooperation for development give a human face to a capitalist development process that is anything but humane. Socialism in Cuba has taken a very different form (socialist human development) than it did elsewhere in the twentieth century. The Cuban Revolution's unique characteristics enabled it to survive adverse conditions - a 'near-perfect storm' - that still threaten its evolution.
Documentos de la Revolución Cubana. La crisis de octubre
El propósito de esta compilación es brindar un marco referencial de la Crisis de Octubre de 1962, que permita una mejor comprensión por el lector de la dimensión de los acontecimientos. En los antecedentes, se han reunido la cronología de las relaciones Cuba-Estados Unidos 1959-1962 y comunicados y declaraciones del Gobierno Revolucionario y su primer ministro. En la segunda sección, se presentan documentos emitidos, las comunicaciones intercambiadas con el secretario general interino de la ONU y las cartas entre los máximos dirigentes de Cuba y la Unión Soviética durante el desarrollo del conflicto. En la tercera, se incluyen sus intervenciones en el pleno del Comité Central del PCC (celebrado los días 25 y 26 de enero de 1968, documento desclasificado e inédito) y en la Conferencia Tripartita sobre la Crisis de Octubre efectuada en 1992, la entrevista que le concedió a la periodista María Schriver en septiembre de 1992 (trasmitida en video por la NBC en Estados Unidos) y un fragmento de la publicada como Cien horas con Fidel, que le realizara Ignacio Ramonet, relacionado con el suceso.
