Havana-Miami
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The US-Cuba migration conflict
Jesús Arboleya
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In the summer of 1994, the Caribbean Sea became the scene of a mass exodus of Cubans as they launched their homemade rafts in the direction of the United States. What were the origins of this "rafter crisis"? How has migration—and the Cuban émigré community—been used by Washington against Cuba since the 1959 revolution? And why has this become such an important US domestic issue? Read more »
Inside Apartheid's Prison
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Notes and letters of struggle
Raymond Suttner
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Raymond Suttner joined the anti-apartheid movement as an idealistic young student. After his arrest in 1975 he was subjected to torture, solitary confinement and extended periods in jail. As a white, a Jew and a communist he was held in deep suspicion by the South African regime. Read more »
Travelers' Tales of Old Cuba
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From Treasure Island to Mafia den
Edited by John Jenkins
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Few places are as fascinating as Cuba, which has drawn travelers ever since it was "discovered" by Columbus in 1492. Magnificently evoking the romance and drama as well as darker episodes of slavery and tyranny, this book moves from the pirate days when Havana sheltered treasure ships to the "American era" when it became a glittering Mafia paradise. Read more »
Letters of Love and Hope
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The Story of the Cuban Five
Alice Walker with the families of the Cuban Five
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The story of five Cubans serving lengthy sentences in US prisons for the "crime" of trying to prevent terrorism against Cuba. Introduced by Alice Walker, with a preface by Cuban poet Nancy Morejon, this book includes excerpts from diaries and letters from and to children, wives and parents of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States for "espionage," providing a glimpse of how ordinary families strive to maintain connections in extraordinary circumstances. Read more »
Salvador Allende Reader
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Chile’s voice of democracy
Edited by James D. Cockcroft and Jane Carolina Canning
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On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a bloody coup against President Salvador Allende in Chile. Allende died in the Presidential Palace as it was attacked by Pinochet's army. This first-ever anthology presents Salvador Allende's voice and his vision of a more democratic, peaceful and just world to a new generation. Read more »
Slovo
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The unfinished autobiography of ANC leader Joe Slovo
Joe Slovo
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The revealing and highly entertaining autobiography of one of the key figures of the African National Congress, described as South Africa’s “most important and most popular white leader.” As an immigrant from Lithuania, a Jew, a communist, a guerrilla fighter and strategist—and white—few public figures in South Africa were as demonized by the apartheid government as Joe Slovo. Read more »
War, Racism and Economic Injustice
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The global ravages of capitalism
Fidel Castro
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A damning analysis of the world economic and political order from one of the principal voices of the Third World. Always controversial and never reticent, Fidel Castro describes neoliberal globalization as a new system of "global apartheid." Read more »
AfroCuba
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An anthology of Cuban writing on race, politics and culture
Edited by Jean Stubbs and Pedro Pérez Sarduy
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What is it like to be black in Cuba? Does racism exist in a revolutionary society that claims to have abolished it? How does the legacy of slavery and segregation live on in today's Cuba? Read more »
After Moruroa
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France in the South Pacific
Nic Maclellan and Jean Chesneaux
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After Moruroa looks at the history of French colonialism in the Pacific-from the French Revolution to the Matignon Accords in New Caledonia and the end of nuclear testing at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls. What is the future for France's Pacific colonies? As France integrates further with the European Union, can it retain ties with Pacific islands on the other side of the world? How will political changes in New Caledonia and a growing independence movement in French Polynesia impact on Paris? Read more »
Amerika Psycho
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Behind Uncle Sam’s mask of sanity
Richard Neville
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Always funny, always provocative, humorist Richard Neville asks: Is Uncle Sam really a psychopath? Neville, notorious for the Oz magazine obscenity trials in the 1960s, mocks a culture that sees the world as either a "target market or a target"; a culture that through its movies, media, politics and foreign policy reveals a disturbing identification with Imperial Rome, asserting the sanctity of its lifestyle, even as the icecaps melt. Read more »
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