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 Gary Prevost for the International Journal of Cuban Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, winter 2016
“London-based trade union activist Steve Cushion has written an invaluable contribution to our understanding of victory of the Cuban revolutionary forces in 1959 by focusing on the role of organized labor in the defeat of the Batista dictatorship. Leaning heavily on the labor archives of the Institute of Cuban History in Havana and interviews with participants in the struggles, Cushion fashions a well-written and well-researched account of the role of the working class struggles and their interplay with the rural guerrilla army and the armed urban under-ground….”
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