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| Event at Havana Book Fair launches new book on “Revolution Within Revolution”
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Havana Book Fair presentation of Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution. Speakers, from left, Leira Sánchez, international relations director, Union of Young Communists; Asela de los Santos; Arelys Santana, second secretary, Federation of Cuban Women; Mary-Alice Waters.
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HAVANA, Cuba—Pathfinder’s Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution, was launched at a packed auditorium on February 14th during the 10-day-long 2012 Havana International Book Fair.
Published in both English and Spanish, the book includes interviews with Vilma Espín, Asela de los Santos, and Yolanda Ferrer. Espín was a central leader of the Cuban Revolution and of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) until her death in 2007. Like Espín, de los Santos was a combatant in the battles that led to the victory of the Cuban revolution and a leader of the FMC. Ferrer joined the FMC in 1960 as a teenager and is today its general secretary and a member of Cuba’s Council of State.
Leira Sánchez, a member of the National Bureau of Cuba’s Union of Young Communists, told the audience that The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution tells a story “that is not often written about in its full scope,” one that “contributes to the education of new generations” in Cuba. It is written “in a clear language that is easy to understand even for young people,” who did not go through those experiences. The new book, Sánchez said, “offers good reasons for why young Cubans should assure the continuity of the revolution.”
The meeting, attended by 130 people from multiple generations was chaired by Arelys Santana, second secretary of the FMC. In addition to Leira Sánchez, speakers on the panel included de los Santos, and Mary-Alice Waters, who edited the book for Pathfinder. Click here to read the complete talks by Waters and de los Santos.
In the audience were several historic leaders of the revolution, including Div. Gen. José Ramón Fernández, vice president of Cuba’s Council of Ministers; Armando Hart, one of the founding leaders of the July 26th Movement; Brig. Gen. Teté Puebla, who was second in command of the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon in the Rebel Army; and Victor Dreke, an internationalist fighter at the side of Che Guevara in the Congo in 1965.
Also participating in the meeting were many other founders and leaders of the FMC, including Carolina Aguilar, Alicia Imperatori, and Isabel Moya, director of the FMC’s publishing house. Her interview with Yolanda Ferrer appears in the book. Click here for more.
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| Woman’s Evolution and The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State now available in Indonesian.
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The first Indonesian edition of Woman’s Evolution by Evelyn Reed has just been published by Kalyanamitra, the Women’s Communication and Education Centre in Jakarta, Indonesia. The book is part of a two-volume set that also includes The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, by Frederick Engels. The two books present a Marxist explanation of how modern women came to be the oppressed sex with the rise of class divided society several thousand years ago.
The back cover of the book describes Kalyanamitra as a women’s organization that works with others to “establish a social movement capable of liberating women from all forms of violence, ignorance, poverty, and underdevelopment in order to create social and gender justice, and a democratic society in Indonesia.”
In Woman’s Evolution, first published in English more than 35 years ago, Reed provides a scientific examination of how women came to be and will cease being the “second sex”, and offers fresh insights on the struggle against women’s oppression and for the liberation of humanity. Reed refutes the myth that “human nature” is to blame for the wars, greed, and inequalities of class-divided societies. Woman’s Evolution has been translated into Spanish, French, Turkish, Farsi and Swedish. The Indonesian edition includes a preface by Mary-Alice Waters, who serves as Evelyn Reed’s literary executor. For Waters’s preface,
click here.
In The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, first published in 1884, Engels explains how these institutions are the product of specific economic and social conditions. He shows how the oppression of women as a sex begins with the development of private property and how the development of the modern working class creates the material basis to end that oppression.
The two-volume set is available from Pathfinder for $35.
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| Iran Daily Serializes 'Teamster Rebellion'
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The Tehran daily Donyay-e-Eqtesad (The World of Economics) has been serializing the Farsi translation of Teamster Rebellion, which is published in Iran by Talaye Porsoo Publications. Teamster Rebellion, published in English, Spanish, and Swedish by Pathfinder, recounts the story of the militant 1934 strikes in Minneapolis, Minnesota that led to the transformation of the labor movement in the upper Midwest of the United States. Author Farrell Dobbs was a central leader of the strikes.
Sold in newsstands around the country, Donyay-e-Eqtesad introduced the series on August 8: “[Teamster Rebellion is] a chapter in the history of unions in the United States written by Farrell Dobbs, an American communist. The book is published by Talaye Porsoo Publications and is devoted to the struggles of American workers.” Each installment includes a photo from the book.
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Teamster Rebellion in Tehran daily Donyay-e-Eqtesad |
TINN News (Transportation Industry News Network), another Farsi journal, is also serializing the book.
Two publishing houses in Iran—Golâzin and Talaye Porsoo—now publish Farsi translations of thirty-two Pathfinder titles. Over the last decade, more than 60,000 copies have been sold in Iran and to Farsi speakers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries. Both publishers have noted a marked increase in sales of these books over the last two years.
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