Traces the political course along which Fidel Castro organized a revolutionary movement that culminated in the 1959 victory of workers and farmers over the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship. Contains the full text of "History Will Absolve Me", Castro's reconstruction of his 1953 courtroom speech explaining the political and social goals of the revolution.

Fidel Castro's Political Strategy: From Moncada to Victory (English and Spanish Edition)

Harnecker, Marta

Literature & Fiction

Pathfinder Pr

Traces the political course along which Fidel Castro organized a revolutionary movement that culminated in the 1959 victory of workers and farmers over the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship. Contains the full text of "History Will Absolve Me," Castro's reconstruction of his 1953 courtroom speech explaining the political and social goals of the revolution.

Fidel Castro's Political Strategy from Moncada to Victory (English and Spanish Edition)

Provides evidence of a new form of grassroots, participatory democracy, that permeates Cuban life today

Cuba: Dictatorship on Democracy?

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Lawrence Hill Books

Cuba, dictatorship or democracy?: Edition includes account of national experience of people's power

L. Hill

Over the last few decades Marta Harnecker has emerged as one of Latin America’s most incisive socialist thinkers. In A World to Build, she grapples with the question that has bedeviled every movement for radical social change: how do you construct a new world within the framework of the old? Harnecker draws on lessons from socialist movements in Latin America, especially Venezuela, where she served as an advisor to the Chávez administration and was a director of the Centro Internacional Miranda. A World to Build begins with the struggle for socialism today. Harnecker offers a useful overview of the changing political map in Latin America, examining the trajectories of several progressive Latin American governments as they work to develop alternative models to capitalism. She combines analysis of concrete events with a refined theoretical understanding of grassroots democracy, the state, and the barriers imposed by capital. For Harnecker, twenty-first century socialism is a historical process as well as a theoretical project, one that requires imagination no less than courage. She is a lucid guide to the movements that are fighting, right now, to build a better world, and an important voice for those who wish to follow that path.

A World to Build: New Paths toward Twenty-first Century Socialism

Monthly Review+press

Over the last few decades Marta Harnecker has emerged as one of Latin America’s most incisive socialist thinkers. In A World to Build, she grapples with the question that has bedeviled every movement for radical social change: how do you construct a new world within the framework of the old? Harnecker draws on lessons from socialist movements in Latin America, especially Venezuela, where she served as an advisor to the Chávez administration and was a director of the Centro Internacional Miranda. A World to Build begins with the struggle for socialism today. Harnecker offers a useful overview of the changing political map in Latin America, examining the trajectories of several progressive Latin American governments as they work to develop alternative models to capitalism. She combines analysis of concrete events with a refined theoretical understanding of grassroots democracy, the state, and the barriers imposed by capital. For Harnecker, twenty-first century socialism is a historical process as well as a theoretical project, one that requires imagination no less than courage. She is a lucid guide to the movements that are fighting, right now, to build a better world, and an important voice for those who wish to follow that path.

A simple and revolutionary toolbox to help any group create an actual and functioning democracyIn this book, Marta Harnecker, with Spanish economist José Bartolomé, shares some of her wisdom on how communities everywhere can gain empowerment. For, when impoverished people became involved in the planning process, they no longer feel like beggars demanding solutions from the state; they become the creators of their own destiny.Set out in two parts; this book first demonstrates the importance of community participants working outside a hierarchy, to allow as much decentralization as possible. The second part of the book centers on the methodology of this process: the various tasks taken on by participants and how, in planning processes over years, they are carried out.

Planning from Below: A Decentralized Participatory Planning Proposal

Bartolome, Jose

After an overview of the Left in Latin America, from the Cuban Revolution to the present day, the author analyzes the thinking of numerous political actors on the developments now taking place: the rapid development of technology and its effects on the world of work and communications; neoliberal globalization with the economic and institutional restructuring that it involves; and all the consequences, including environmental, that it implies for humanity. Recognising the profound theoretical and situational crisis of the Left, Harnecker stresses the necessity of developing an alternative to the present forms of globalization.

Rebuilding the Left

History

Zed Books

Los conceptos elementales del materialismo histórico

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A.

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Fidel Castro's Political Strategy: From Moncada to Victory (English and Spanish Edition)

Fidel Castro's Political Strategy from Moncada to Victory (English and Spanish Edition)

Cuba: Dictatorship on Democracy?

Cuba, dictatorship or democracy?: Edition includes account of national experience of people's power

A World to Build: New Paths toward Twenty-first Century Socialism

A World to Build: New Paths toward Twenty-first Century Socialism

Planning from Below: A Decentralized Participatory Planning Proposal

Planning from Below: A Decentralized Participatory Planning Proposal

Rebuilding the Left

Los conceptos elementales del materialismo histórico