A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory
272 pp, $27 pbk, ISBN 9781583675816
By Steve Cushion
Reviewed by Dominic Alexander
“…Cushion is able to make a substantial case that the working-class contribution to the revolution has been severely underestimated, and that in fact Castro’s guerrilla movement would not have been able to take power without working-class militancy. ¶ The story is detailed and intricate, but full of interest, beginning with the defeat of the 1933 general strike, which first brought Batista to political leadership in Cuba, but concentrating on the years of the latter’s dictatorship proper, from March 1952, to the consolidation of Castro’s government in 1959….”
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