Books about the case of the
Cuban Five
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Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Fernando
González, Antonio Guerrero, and René González are working-class fighters who were arrested in
1998 on frame-up charges that they were part of a “Cuban spy network” in Florida. They were
keeping the Cuban government informed about rightist groups that have a long record of carrying out armed
attacks on Cuba from U.S. soil.
These books help explain the stakes in the case.
Cuba
and the Coming American Revolution
By Jack Barnes
Pathfinder
The Cuban Revolution of 1959 had a worldwide political impact,
including on working people and youth in the imperialist heartland. As the mass, proletarian-based struggle
for Black rights was already advancing in the U.S., the social transformation fought for and won by the
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.
Also available in Spanish, French.
$10
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United States vs. The Cuban
Five
A Judicial Coverup
By Rodolfo Dávalos Fernández
Editorial Capitán San Luis
Cuban jurist Rodolfo Dávalos Fernández reviews every aspect
of the U.S. government’s prosecution of the five men in the light of U.S. and international law, legal
tradition and procedures. “From start to finish,” he explains, “the proceedings were tainted,
corrupt, null and void, vindictive. Every right of the accused to ‘due process of law’ was
flouted.”
Also available in Spanish. $22
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Hoping
in Solitude
Antonio, Fernando, Ramón,
René, Gerardo
Edited by Eduardo Heras León
Editorial Capitán San Luis
A collection of poetry, essays, paintings, and music from prominent Cuban artists in
honor of the Cuban Five. The volume includes statements of each of the five at their sentencing and at court
hearings five years into their terms.
Also available in Spanish. $25
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Cuba, The Untold History
Edited by Juan Carlos Rodríguez Cruz
Editorial Capitán San Luis
An account, fully illustrated and documented, of more than four
decades of violent attacks against the Cuban Revolution by the U.S. government—under ten different
presidents. Defends and demands release of the Cuban Five.
Also available in Spanish. $32
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Cointelpro: the FBI’s Secret War on
Political Freedom
By Nelson Blackstock
Pathfinder
Describes the decades-long covert counterintelligence
program—code-named Cointelpro—directed against socialists and activists in the Black and
anti-Vietnam War movements. The operations revealed in the documents cited in this book—many of them
photographically reproduced—provide an unprecedented look at the methods used by the FBI, CIA, military
intelligence, and other U.S. police agencies. Despite their authors’ intentions, these documents also
record pieces of the history of efforts to build the communist movement in the United States. $16
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