A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory
272 pp, $27 pbk, ISBN: 9781583675816
By Steve Cushion
Cuba and the U.S. Empire: A Chronological History
464 pp, $25 pbk, ISBN: 9781583676059
By Jane Franklin
Reviewed by Mike Gonzalez
“The last year and a half have left no doubt that the history of the Cuban Revolution will need to be revisited and probably rewritten. From the moment that Raúl Castro and Barack Obama met, and the American president visited the island, everything changed. The process had begun earlier, of course, with unannounced meetings between representatives of US government and business and their Cuban counterparts. But despite some claims that the rapprochement was a ‘victory for Cuban statecraft’, it was clear that this was an ending as well as a new beginning. The Cuban Revolution was over, though the regime it had brought to power remained in place, astonishingly, 55 years later….”
Read the review in International Socialism: A Quarterly Review of Socialist Theory, No. 152
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