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Playa Girón: Washington’s First Military Defeat in the Americas
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“From a strategic and tactical point of view, the enemy’s idea was well-conceived.… What they lacked was a just cause to defend.”—José Ramón Fernández, commander of main column of Cuban revolutionary forces that defeated the CIA-organized invasion at the Bay of Pigs, April 1961.
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Special 50th anniversary edition
Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs
1961: Washington’s First Military Defeat in the Americas
By Fidel Castro and José Ramón Fernández
ISBN: 978-0-87348-925-6
Price: $22 301 pp.
Also available in Spanish
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The Inevitable Battle
From the Bay of Pigs to Playa Girón
By Juan Carlos Rodríguez
ISBN: 978-9-59211-337-4
Price: $20 359 pp.
Published in Cuba by Editorial Capitán San Luis
Also available in Spanish
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In fewer than 72 hours of combat in April 1961, Cuba’s revolutionary armed forces defeated a U.S.-organized invasion by 1,500 mercenaries. In the process, the Cuban people set an example for workers, farmers, and youth the world over that with political consciousness, class solidarity, courage, and revolutionary leadership, one can stand up to enormous might and seemingly insurmountable odds—and win.
Introduction by Jack Barnes, photo section, maps, glossary, chronology, index.
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The U.S.-led invasion of Cuba in April 1961 was defeated in 66 hours by militia battalions composed of worker and peasant volunteers, along with soldiers from the Cuban armed forces. Cuban historian Juan Carlos Rodríguez explains that the failure of the attack on Playa Girón was not due to poor strategy and tactics on the part of the invading forces. They were actually sound plans. Cuba defeated the invasion because the human material available to Washington could not match the courage and determination of a people fighting to defend what they had gained through the continent’s first socialist revolution.
Reports, interviews, and 46 pages of photos from Cuban archives.
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Cuba and the Coming American Revolution
By Jack Barnes
ISBN: 978-0-87348-990-4
Price: $10 119 pp.
Also available in Spanish, French
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Making History
Interviews with Four Generals of Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces
By Enrique Carreras, Harry Villegas, José Ramón Fernández, Nestor López Cuba, Mary-Alice Waters
ISBN: 978-0-87348-902-7
Price: $17 213 pp.
Also available in Spanish, Farsi
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The Cuban Revolution of 1959 had a worldwide political impact, including on workers and youth in the imperialist heartland. As the proletarian-based struggle for Black rights was advancing in the U.S., the social transformation fought for and won by Cuban toilers set an example that socialist revolution is not only necessary—it can be made and defended.
Second edition with a new foreword by Mary-Alice Waters, photo section, index.
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Through the stories of four outstanding Cuban generals—Néstor López Cuba, Enrique Carreras, José Ramón Fernández, and Harry Villegas—each with close to half a century of revolutionary activity, we can see the class dynamics that shaped the Cuban Revolution and our entire epoch. We understand how the people of Cuba, as they struggle to build a new society, have for five decades held Washington at bay.
Preface by Juan Almeida Bosque, introduction by Mary-Alice Waters, photo section, map, glossary, notes, index.
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The First and Second Declarations of Havana
Manifestos of revolutionary struggle
in the Americas adopted by
the Cuban people
ISBN: 978-0-87348-869-3
Price: $10 100 pp.
Also available in Spanish,
French,
Greek, Arabic
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October 1962
The ‘Missile’ Crisis as Seen from Cuba
By Tomás Diez Acosta
ISBN: 978-0-87348-956-0
Price: $25 333 pp.
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Nowhere are the questions of revolutionary strategy that today confront men and women on the front lines of struggles in the Americas addressed with greater truthfulness and clarity than in these two documents, adopted by million-strong assemblies of the Cuban people in 1960 and 1962. These uncompromising indictments of imperialist plunder and “the exploitation of man by man” continue to stand as manifestos of revolutionary struggle by working people the world over.
Preface by Mary-Alice Waters, photo section, chronology, glossary, index.
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In October 1962, Washington pushed the world to the edge of nuclear war. Here, for the first time, the full story of that historic moment is told from the perspective of the Cuban people, whose determination to defend their sovereignty and their socialist revolution blocked U.S. plans for a military assault and saved humanity from the consequences of a nuclear holocaust.
Preface by Mary-Alice Waters, photo section, map, notes, glossary, bibliography, index.
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Por todos los caminos de la Sierra
La victoria estratégica
On every road through the Sierra
STRATEGIC VICTORY
ISBN: 978-9-59274-104-1
Price: $35 855 pp. Spanish
Published in Cuba
by the publishing office of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba.
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To Speak the Truth
Why Washington’s ‘Cold War’ Against Cuba Doesn’t End
By Ernesto Che Guevara, Fidel Castro
ISBN: 978-0-87348-633-0
Price: $18 240 pp.
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Fidel Castro’s account of how in 74 days of battle in the summer of 1958, 300 revolutionary fighters—with the
support of workers and farmers across Cuba—defeated Batista’s 10,000-strong “final offensive.”
Introduction, maps, photos, facsimiles of historical documents, illustrated glossary of weapons.
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Soldier of the Cuban Revolution
From the Cane Fields of Oriente to General of the Revolutionary Armed Forces
By Luis Alfonso Zayas
ISBN: 978-1-60488-031-1
Price: $18 202 pp.
Also available in Spanish
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