1. The ABC of National Liberation Movements
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1969
   A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war - not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
2. After the "Special Period"
   Against The Current vol. 89
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2000
   U.S. activists interview Cuban student. In July, Solidarity supporters Tim Marshall, Rachel Quinn and Sara Abraham had the opportunity to take classes at the University of Havana as a part of the Language and Culture program sponsored by Global Exchange. We met many people willing to share their opinions on the political and economic situation of the country. Everyone talked about how difficult the "special period" (early 1990s) was but felt that Cuba was emerging from this critical time.
3. Alan Gross's Improbable Tales on 60 Minutes
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   In a dramatic segment on CBS News' 60 Minutes titled "The Last Prisoner of the Cold War," former United States Agency for International Development (USAID) subcontractor Alan Gross tells of horrifying experiences in captivity: "They threatened to hang me, they threatened to pull out my fingernails, they said I'd never see the light of day."
4. Another Vote on Washington's Anti-Cuba Policy at the United Nations
   The Politics of Isolation
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   Resolution A/68/L.6, sponsored by Cuba, passed this year, for the 22nd year in a row, with Washington once again in humiliating political loneliness. The vote this year was 188-2 in favor, with 3 abstentions. Washington’s formal political isolation over its anti-Cuba policy can hardly be more complete. Is it possible to imagine any significant political issue in world politics uniting so many disparate entities often in significant conflict with each other.
5. The birth of the Cuban polyclinic
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   During the 1960s, Cuban medicine experienced changes as tumultuous as the civil rights and antiwar protests in the United States. While activists, workers, and students in western Europe and the United States confronted existing institutions of capitalism and imperialism, Cuba faced the even greater challenge of building a new society.
6. The Blockade Against Cuba: An Assault Upon Humanity's Conscience
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   On 29 October 2013, for the 22nd consecutive year, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) called for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. 188 states supported the Resolution, 2 voted against it, namely the US and Israel.
7. C.L.R. James's "Critical Support" of Fidel Castro's Cuba
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   C.L.R. James's "critical support" of Fidel Castro’s Cuba is little understood among scholars of his life and work. This essay explores James’s 1967–1968 visit to Cuba and reconstructs private debates and discussion on Cuba within his revolutionary organizations, based in Detroit, in the 1950s and 1960s, and among anti-imperialist movements. Many of James's commentaries and disputes were consistent with his attempts to reconcile anti-colonialism with direct democracy and workers self-management.
8. Canadian News Synthesis Project - December 1975
   Volume III Number 10
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1975
   The Canadian News Synthesis Project journal presents current news coverage to show major trends in Canada and Latin America.
9. Capitalism, Socialism and Technology
   A Comparative Study of Cuba and Jamaica
   Resource Type: Book
   Does a socialist Third World country tackle technological development and mechanization in different ways from a capitalist country? In this meticulous field study of sugar cane harvesting in two leading producer countries - Cuba and Jamaica - Dr. Edquist finds that the causes and consequences of technical change differ significantly. He advances original ideas as to the relationship between technology and socio-economic conditions.
10. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
11. Cuba
    Anatomy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1960   Published: 1969
    
12. Cuba 1959 to 1980s
    The Unforgivable Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
13. Cuba in Search of Renovation
    Against The Current vol. 141
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    On January 1, 1959, the rebel Army entered Havana and brought down the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Fifty years later, Fidel Castro has given up power, but his brother Raúl has relieved him. Far from being characterized by paralysis, this transition period has witnessed the emergence of an intense debate about the future of socialism, both among opponents as well as those who defend it with the desire to see it evolve.
14. Cuba Makes Me Hurt
    Against The Current vol. 105
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    The jail sentences and executions in Cuba are very good news for the global superpower, which has been going crazy trying to cough up that bone stuck in its throat. But they are very bad news, sad and painful news, for those of us who think that the courage shown by this tiny country, so capable of greatness, is admirable, but who also think that justice and freedom march hand in hand or not at all.
15. Cuba, the United States and the Left
    Against The Current vol. 89
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The nationalist anti-imperialist revolution of the long beards has lasted forty-one years. It was never a socialist revolution. The Moncada combatants were not socialists, neither were those in the Sierra Maestra (with few exceptions), nor the Cuban people who one morning woke up to hear the news through the radio and from the mouth of Fidel Castro, that in response to the imperialist attacks, the island had become "socialist."
16. Cuba Today
    Against The Current vol. 142
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The Cuban revolution's 50th anniversary has sparked academic conferences, debates and articles assessing its past and future. How and why has the revolution survived? What does the future hold for Cuba? Or, as it is often put, more crudely, what will happen when Fidel/Raul dies?
17. The Cuban Five--Injustice Prolonged
    Against The Current vol. 141
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the final appeal of the “Cuban Five,” who were convicted in 2001 and are serving prison terms ranging from 15 years to life for “espionage conspiracy” and acting as illegal agents for the Cuban government.
18. Cuban Revolution
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An armed revolt that led to the overthrow of U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista of Cuba on January 1, 1959 by the 26th of July Movement led by Fidel Castro.
19. Cuban Revolution - History
    Resource Type: Article
    Documents on the Cuban revolution 1959 -
20. Cuban Women Now: Afterward 1974
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
    I am writing this afterword because I feel that in the past three years fundamental changes have taken place in Cuban society,changes concerning women's role and men's, and women's attitudes towards those roles.
    
21. Cuba's Invasion Fears
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    There is nothing irrational about Cuba's fears of being invaded by the United States.
22. Cuba's Prisoner Release
    Surprise! Mainstream Media Omits Context and Key Facts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Double standards and hypocrisy abound in American media coverage of Cuba's recent prisoner release. For example, the U.S. government holds more political prisoners on Cuban soil than the Cuban government does.
23. Cuba's urban farming shows way to avoid hunger
    Urban farming, Cuban-style, is being hailed as an example of how to feed ourselves when climate change threatens serious food shortages.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    When countries run short of food, they need to find solutions fast, and one answer can be urban farming. That was the remedy Cuba seized with both hands 30 years ago when it was confronted with the dilemma of an end to its vital food imports.
24. Defying Washington's Embargo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    In the face of strong government opposition and little U.S. media attention, a grassroots effort scored a victory on September 13, 1996. On that day U.S. and Canadian members of Pastors for Peace delivered 400 medical computers to Cuba, without applying for the license required by the U.S. trade embargo.
25. The Economic War Against Cuba: A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U.S. Blockade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Salim Lamrani explains the U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba: their origins, their provisions, how they contravene international law, and how they affect the lives of Cubans.
26. The Economy After A Half Century
    Against The Current vol. 141
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The object here is to evaluate the current state of the Cuban economy, but for this no insightful perspective is possible without considering its performance historically, especially over the last sixty years and most especially over the half century since the triumph of the Revolution.
27. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
28. The Face of Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Parenti redefines empire and imperialism to connect the current crisis in America to its own bad behavior worldwide.
29. Failed Cuban "Twitter" Project Designed By U.S. Government Contractors
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    ZunZuneo - a now defunct social media platform similar to Twitter – was designed to undermine the Cuban government by two private contractors: Creative Associates International (CAI) from Washington DC and Mobile Accord, a Denver based company.
30. Fair Play for Cuba Committee
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    
31. Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Vol. 8: 1492-1992
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of poems and essays giving various perspectives on resistance to imperialism and capitalism.
32. Four Books on Hegemony and Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 120
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    There are times when a key analysis has a wakeup effect. The last year saw the publication of four books that together have a potential of such an event, at least for those U.S. citizens who are motivated to try and understand and change the world. The four were not written with the idea that they would be read together, yet taken together they are, I believe, more thought-provoking than if considered separately.
33. Hegemony or Survival 
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
    Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
34. Hypocrisy over Cuba's 'political prisoners' 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Political prisoners and Cuba can be a confusing mix, in our time of mass propaganda. Three groups have attracted international attention over the past decade.
35. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
36. The Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Fair-and-balanced Fox News reported on Wednesday that "Cuban military operatives reportedly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe they are advising President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers and may be preparing to man Russian-made tanks to aid Damascus in fighting rebel forces backed by the U.S." Fox's claim of an imaginary enemy alliance relies on two sources: the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and an anonymous U.S. official.
37. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
38. Jose Marti
    Architect of the Cuban Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    This book looks at Marti as both thinker and man of action in relation to his own country (Cuba), Latin America as a whole, and the United States. Turton presents Marti as a contradictory man, avoiding the hagiographical tendencies of many biographers. An original and readable portrait of this great patriot of the Americas and forerunner of the Cuban Revolution.
39. Killing Hope 
    U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
40. "Listen, Yankee!": Tom Hayden Captures Absurdity of Cuban Embargo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The US embargo of Cuba, like a bad hangover from the Cold War, has lingered on for far too long. After decades of bingeing on the country's particularly potent brand of anticommunism, the nation's ruling elite has found it near impossible to kick its predilection for holding Cuba to a higher standard than it does for putative US allies and, for that matter, the United States itself.
41. Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2019
    Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban revolution. Using extensive examples, including pre-revolutionary historic coverage, journalist Keith Bolender reveals how the national press has established an anti-Cuba chronicle in adherence to Washington's unrelenting regime change policies.
42. Martí, José
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Cuban poet and rebel. (1953-1895).
43. A Marxist History of the World part 97: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The reforms that Fidel Castro introduced after the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship were real, but they were bestowed from above and straitjacketed by poverty.
44. Modern "Gunboat" Diplomacy in the Caribbean
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    There is no such thing as humanitarian intervention on the part of the current U.S. state.
45. Necessary Illusions 
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
46. On Power and Ideology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Five lectures on U.S. international and security policy.
47. Open Veins of Latin America 
    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1973
    A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
48. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
49. Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    
50. A People's History of the World 
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
51. Raids and Reconstructions
    Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
52. The Real Terror Network 
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
53. Recovering Nonviolent History
    Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
54. A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
55. Revolution in the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    
56. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Essays by Dave Dellinger
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1971
    Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
57. Revolutionary Politics and the Cuban Working Class
    Torchbook Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A study of Cuban workers after consolidation of the Castro regime.
58. Situationist International Anthology 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2006
    A selection of Situationist writings.
59. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
60. The Slave Trade
    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
    
61. Socialism in Cuba
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    
62. The Socialist Register 1970
    Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    
63. The Socialist Register 1989
    Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    
64. Soft-Powering Cuba
    Regime-Change in a Box
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    How the U.S. uses "soft power" to undermine governments abroad and democracy at home.
65. SWP History: 1960-1988
    Resource Type: Website
    A website devoted to reviews and discussions related to Barry sheppart's two-volume history of the American Socialists Workers' Party (SWP).
66. Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
    Volume VI Number 5
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
    May 1978 issue.
67. A Tale of Two Islands 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A look at the two island nations of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes; one is a poor socialist state and the other a territory of one of the richest countries in the world.
68. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
69. The Transition to Socialism
    Against The Current vol. 141
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    In his January, 2009 speech commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, President Raúl Castro, known popularly as Raúl, repeated Fidel’s oft-quoted 2005 speech to University of Havana students: “This nation can self-destruct… those who can’t destroy it are them [the U.S. imperialists]; we, yes, we can destroy it and it would be our fault.”
70. The 2019 UN Vote Against the US Blockade of Cuba
    Trump's Washington Remains Cornered
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    On November 7, 2019, for the 28th year in a row, the entire United Nations General Assembly, gathered in one room, voted overwhelmingly against "the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo Imposed on Cuba by the United States." The final tally was 187 in favor, 3 opposed (Brazil, Israel, US), 2 abstentions (Colombia, Ukraine), 1 not voting (Moldova).
71. Understanding Power
    The Indispensable Chomsky
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2002
    In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
72. Why Cuba Is Different?
    Against The Current vol. 112
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    First, we have to address the United States’ stance toward Cuba for what it is since 1960: four and a half decades of state terrorism against a country and its people. Anyone who supports the right of self-determination is obliged to oppose and fight all forms of U.S. government intervention against Cuba, as if there were no issue of political repression inside Cuba.
73. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
74. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

Experts on Kuba in the Sources Directory

1. African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
2. Association of Caribbean States
3. Latin American Economic System
4. Latin American Parliament
5. Organization of American States
6. United Nations