Reviews from the Caribbean countries
Cuba’s revolution was not won just by bearded white men. Review: Clandestinas: Women in the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1955–1959, Carollee Bengelsdorf, with photographs curated by Susan Meiselas, 2025, Duke University Press
Categories: Cuba
Cuba’s nuclear brinkmanship contains lessons about imperialism and internationalism. Review: The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War, Renata Keller, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: China, Cuba, International, North America, Russia, United States, Venezuela
Castro defined the struggle against imperialism by advocating internationalism. Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia: The example of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, 2025, Pathfinder
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
A Cuban crucible of internationalism holds lessons for the left. Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns, Frances Peace Sullivan, 2025, University Press of Florida
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, North America, United States
Llana Barber explores a history of uprisings in the US against a backdrop of systemic racism, reminding us as we observe Los Angeles that the weak never suffer in silence
Categories: Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Puerto Rico, South America, United States
Coups can tell us all about democracy. Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964–1982, eds Sebastián Carassai and Kevin Coleman, 2025, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, North America, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
US imperialism has been built on local labour. The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines, Justin F Jackson, 2025, University of North Carolina Press
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
Comment: Ireland knows a thing or two about anti-imperialism. Sinn Féin’s Chris Hazzard MP told the ¡Adelante! conference why its solidarity with Latin America is unshakeable
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, International, Ireland, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
