GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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Killing Communists in Havana: The Start of the Cold War in Latin America by Steve Cushion
Concise study of anti-communism in Cuba and beyond in the 1940s
Attacked: Jesus Menendez, head of the Cuban sugar workers’ union
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
THIS book complements Steve Cushion’s earlier work A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution and is an equally well-researched and readable account.
In it, Cushion has rescued key parts of Cuba’s working-class history. It has often been argued that the Cuban revolution of 1959 was the result of a socially and politically isolated group of guerilla adventurers.
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