MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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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
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ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
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.
Having disembarked from their boat Granma and surviving their initial decimation by dictator Fulgencio Batista’s forces, they then conducted a brilliant military campaign that brought them to power.
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