Cuba – International Socialism

The new Cuba: myths and realities

Posted on 7th October 2016 by Camilla

A review of Steve Cushion, A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory (Monthly Review Press, 2016), £20.42 and Jane Franklin, Cuba and the US Empire: A Chronological History (Monthly Review Press, 2016),… Continue Reading →

Medicine in post-revolutionary Cuba

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

P. Sean Brotherton, Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba (Duke University Press, 2012), £16.99 Cuba is back in the international news. In December 2014, it was announced that relations between Cuba and the United States were “thawing”;… Continue Reading →