“[Marti] added a social agenda to the historic program of national liberation and instantly converted a movement devoted to the establishment of a new nation into a force dedicated to shaping a new so
“A worthwhile compilation for libraries and bookstores seeking titles on the subject.”—Criticas “This book is the kind of true testimonial that all Americans should read.”—Clamor Magazine This antholo
Four famous rebels present a radical vision of a better world in three texts—Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto, Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution, and Che Guevara’s Socialism and Man—offering a
“A fast and powerful read, and its themes are still relevant today… and shows vividly the suffering others have endured at our hands, the same sort of suffering our government has pledged to fight… Th
A new look at the life and work of Italian political activist and theorist Antonio Gramsci. Imprisoned by the Fascists for much of his adult life, Antonio Gramsci wrote brilliantly on a broad range of
To check the spread of revolution in Latin America in 1961, Kennedy proposed the Alliance for Progress—a program for free trade and development in the Americas. Che Guevara , described by Time magazin
In this extraordinary encounter with Che Guevara’s daughter Aleida, Chavez explains his fiercely nationalist vision for Venezuela and a united Latin America, Venezuela’s new democratic constitution, a
An intimate encounter between the charismatic Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Che Guevara’s daughter Aleida Is Venezuela the new Cuba? Elected by an overwhelming popular mandate in 1998, which
“Victor Serge is one of the unsung heroes of a corrupt century.”—Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s GhostSerge’s expose of the methods of surveillance and harassment of political activists by t
Louise Michel was the incendiary French leader of the 1871 Paris Commune. An anarchist and an irrepressible rebel, she spent much of her life on the run from police, in jail, or in danger of being loc
The trial judge called them "anarchistic bastards." Political activists, Italian-born Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were framed and executed for murder in a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria in B
Only recently declassified and published for the first time, this secret report was prepared for the CIA on its own plots to assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro. Under pressure in 1967 when the press were
Haydée Santamaría led a full and painful life. One of a handful of Cuba’s female revolutionary leaders, she suffered torture in Batista’s prisons. After 1959, she established the
