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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
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
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KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
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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