Socio-political Studies

• Literacy in Cuba. History and Testimony.

Author: Guillermina Ares
Pages: 174

An exhaustive investigation into the Cuban Literacy Campaign. These pages contain a detailed history of this amazing event, the testimony of some of the protagonists form the most veracious and interesting anecdote.

• The Myths and Men Of History

Author: Enrique Ubieta Gómez
Pages: 232
This work unites essays and reflections on significant moments in Cuban history and thought. Identity and national independence are analyzed in relation to globalization and internationalism, themes of outstanding contemporary importance.

The author, philosopher and historian, won the Essay Prize awarded by the National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists.

• The Cuban Revolution: 40 Important Moments

Autor: Luis Julio García
Páginas: 284
Por primera vez aparecen reunidos los 40 grandes momentos de la Revolución Cubana; 40 documentos que ayudan a explicar el porqué Cuba ha sobrevivido al colapso de la URSS y de Europa del Este. Un libro que anticipa el papel de la isla rebelde en el siglo XXI.

• Cuba: Revolutionary Ideology. A vision from the principal marxist perspectives

Author: Luis Julio García
Pages: 265

For the first time the 40 most important moments of the Cuban Revolution are collected in one edition; 40 documents which help to explain how Cuba survived the collapse of the USSR and Eastern Europe. A book that points to the role of this rebel island in the XXI century.

• Family, Emigration and daily life in Cuba

Authors: Consuelo Martín and Guadalupe Pérez
Pages: 192
A socio-political study of the Cuban family and its relations with emigrant relatives. A comparison between the attitudes towards emigration in the 1960's and the 1990's and the motives of those emigrants. Prize-winner in the July Contest for socio-political essays.

• Autocracy or democracy in Cuba

Author: Carlos Méndez
Pages: 334
Designed to offer a wide and objective panorama of social and political events in Cuba. Democracy, education, health, sports, culture, women, religion, science and technology, the blockade, globalization, human rights, etc., are all topics which the author tackles. 

• Understanding and transforming society: Fidel Castro y Ernesto Che Guevara

Author: Olivia Miranda
Pages: 210

Analysis of the penetration of Marxism and Leninism in Cuban culture within the Latin American context, based on the democratic and anti-imperialist thought of José Martí; the theories of the founders of this ideology in Latin America: Mella, Villena, Mariátegui; and of its followers in Cuba: Blas Roca, Marinello, Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, Raúl Roa, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.

• Neoliberalism against Globalization

Author: Raúl Valdés Vivó
Pages: 500

An innovative thesis which claims that neoliberalism has become the principal obstacle to globalization. Differentiation of both categories, the current context, plus the contributions of its theoreticians and the revolutionary thought from the perspectives of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.

• Paradise Found: 40 years of the Cuban Revolution

Multimedia, electronic edition, illustrated with photos, videos and music. Chronologically recounts the principle events of the Revolution. The content may be amplified through hyper-texts and the glossary. This unique edition is published in Spanish and English.

• Socialism and the Cuban Revolution after the marxist crisis

Author: Daniel Rafuls

An investigation which reappraises the previously mistreated studies of the founders of Marxism and Leninism in relation to the theme of the Socialist Revolution and, above all, attempts to give a new theoretical understanding of the Cuban Revolution from this angle.

• The failure of the cuban moderates

Author: Jorge R. Ibarra Guitart
Pages: 360

An investigative essay on the subject of the reformist alternatives in the Cuban conflict at the end of the 1950´s, whose protagonists were the traditional political parties, the civil institutions, the Catholic Church and the U.S. State Department.
These sectors, which held economic, social and political power, could offer no solution to the political crisis that plagued Cuban society of that period.

• Security and social welfare in Cuba

Author: Aurea V. Rodríguez Rodríguez
Pages: 148

A socio-political essay in three chapters which examines the Cuban experience in the field of security and social welfare.
Prize-winner in the the July competition of the Cuban Political Publishing House, this work is a rigurous investigation into a pertinent contemporary theme.

• The seizure of power

Author: Tomás Toledo
Pages: 180

A politico-historical essay in eight chapters which narrates the progress of the Cuban Revolution up to the seizure of power, including the 11th hour risks it ran on the 31st of December, 1958, hours before the final victory of the popular forces on the 1st of January, 1959.
Fidel Castro appears at the head of the revolutionary movement supported by the vast majority of the people, denouncing and later dismantling the coup d'état military government of Batista, which was supported and encouraged by the government of the U.S.

• Civil society and participation in Cuba

Author: Miguel Limia David
Pages: 100

A profound politico-philosophic essay studying the issues of civil and political society and their connotations for the Cuban Revolution today.
On the basis of copious empirical material the relationship between civil and political society is examined as a result of, and throughout the historical development of the Cuban Revolution revealing its complex dialectic.

• Human rights in Fidel Castro´s thought

Author: Miguel Limia David
Pages: 44

A politico-philosophical essay in which the thought of Fidel Castro is examined from the perspective of the doctrine of human rights, situated within the context of the historical development of the Cuban Revolution.

• The lying game: the great powers, Yugoslavia, nato and the wars to come

Author: Michell Collon
Pages: 476

An analysis which uncovers the lies told by the US and Germany to mask their true interests in the Yugoslav conflict. Offers the formula by which to understand not only this, but also the future conflicts that NATO is forging in the Balkans.

• The immortal manifesto

Author: Raúl Valdés Vivó
Pages: 114

The Immortal Manifesto is a profound analysis which irrefutably demonstrates the validity of the Communist Party Manifesto, written more than 150 years ago. This objective and sober study offers as convincing an explanation as in larger and more profound texts. The Manifesto is immortal, but it would be absurd to ignore the global changes that have occurred since its publication. In this work the reader will encounter fragments of Marx and Engels´ texts with analysis of events demonstrating its contemporary validity.

• Of their own volition

Author: Marcos A. Louit Lescailles
Pages: 140

A revealing work on the most complex and contradictory human emotions in which history, drama, humour and poetry are all combined in this tormentuous moment of Cuban society.
The work deals with the massive exodus from Cuba as a result of the so-called 'Cuban Adjustment Law'. This favors immigrants from the island in open discrimination of those arriving in the United States from other parts of the world.

• Outstanding moments of the cuban revolution: the victory's offensive
Author: Luis Rosado Eiró
Pages: 102

An historical essay which narrates the final stage of the war for national liberation led by Fidel Castro. It reveals the premises and conditions that favored the early preparations of the final offensive and the economic, political and military factors that caused the downfall of Batista's tyrannical army. Ultimately, it exposes the importance of the General Strike called by Fidel on the 1st of January 1959 and the position given to this form of struggle throughout the conflict.

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