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| La Gaceta de Cuba
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Cuba's leading magazine on culture, politics, and the Cuban Revolution today
(6 issues per year)
La Gaceta de Cuba is a leading forum for discussion on culture, politics, and the challenges facing the Cuban Revolution today. Published in Spanish six times a year by the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), its pages reflect a wide range of viewpoints on topics debated in Cuba and throughout the Americas.
Recent issues have featured:
Articles on Cuba's cultural policy and the political debates surrounding it since the early years of the revolution. These include Cuban cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, the impact of the Beatles in Cuba, and a reevaluation of the cultural magazine Lunes de Revolución published in the first years of the revolution.
Articles by and interviews with prominent Cuban cultural figures such as writers Antón Arrufat, Edmundo Desnoes, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Ambrosio Fornet, and Lisandro Otero; film director Fernando Pérez; actors Vladimir Cruz and Luis Alberto Garcíca; art critic Graziella Pogolotti; painters Roberto Diago and Jay Matamoros; singers Silvio Rodríguez and Liuba María Hevia; and theater directors Roberto Blanco and Carlos Celdrán.
Appreciations of the contributions of 20th century Cuban writers and artists such as film director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea; singer Rita Montaner; communist leader Julio Antonio Mella; painter Wifredo Lam; and writers Luis Amado-Blanco, Lino Novás Calvo, and Cintio Vitier.
Recent trends in Cuban literature, music, theater and cinema, and the plastic arts.
Essays, short stories, and poems.
Allow 6-9 weeks for first issue to arrive
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| Cuba Socialista
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Cuba Socialista, published in Spanish four times a year, features theoretical and analytical articles assessing contemporary developments in world politics and topics under debate among revolutionary forces internationally. It is the journal of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Cuba. Recent articles include:
"The Marxist Left's Policy of Alliances at the Beginning of the 21st Century" by José Ramón Balaguer
"The October Crisis and U.S. Policy against Cuba" by Esteban Morales Domínguez
"Social and Political Aspects of Popular Struggles" by Roberto Regalado Álvarez
"Reasons to Oppose the FTAA" by Osvaldo Martínez
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| Price List
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Pathfinder is making substantial improvements to its
400-plus titles. Our aim is to make them more useful to working people and youth looking for the political
ideas and historical experience they need to fight effectively in today’s world.
We will be adding indexes to books that have not had them before. New International, a magazine of Marxist politics and theory distributed by Pathfinder, will also now be indexed. Photo sections,
illustrations, and maps that bring to life events taken up in the books are being expanded. Type size is
larger, making the books easier to read. Many will feature new introductions, glossaries, and chronologies
that help place events and individuals in historical context.
New International contributing
editor Jack Barnes explained the importance of these improvements. “Every issue of New
International,” he wrote, “contains political and theoretical articles that are challenging
to read and absorb.… Everything each of us strives to do … in every book we produce is to the same end: to
get rid of obstacles to having fighting workers and farmers, and young people attracted to their struggles, read
and consider the politics, and together use those books to help change ourselves as we change the
world.”
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| January from Pathfinder Press
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Hot off the press!
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Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power
By Jack Barnes
Price: $20
Coming March 2010 in Spanish
“Don't start with Blacks as an oppressed nationality. Start with the vanguard place and weight of workers who are Black in broad proletarian-led social and political struggles in the United States. From the Civil War to today, the record is mind-boggling. It's the strength and resilience, not the oppression, that bowls you over.”—Jack Barnes
Malcolm X emerged from the the Black liberation struggle that opened in the mid-1950s as its outstanding single leader. He insisted that colossal movement was part of a worldwide clash “between those who want freedom, justice, and equality and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.”
Drawing lessons from a century and a half of struggle, this book helps us understand why it is the revolutionary conquest of power by the working class that will make possible the final battle for Black freedom—and open the way to a world based not on exploitation, violence, and racism but human solidarity. A socialist world.
Includes four photo sections and over 130 photographs and drawings, author’s introduction, index,
glossary.
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New from Cuba
The Inevitable
Battle
From the Bay of Pigs to Playa Girón
By Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Published in Cuba by Editorial Capitán San Luis. Distributed by Pathfinder.
Price: $20
Also available in Spanish
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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 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.
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New editions
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Lenin's Final Fight and La última lucha de Lenin
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By V.I. Lenin
Price: $20
As capitalism in the twenty-first century enters its deepest economic and social crisis since the decades spanning the first and second imperialist world wars, programmatic and strategic matters in dispute in the communist workers movement in the early 1920s once again weigh heavily in prospects for the working class worldwide to advance along its historic line of march
toward the conquest of power.
In 1922 and 1923, V.I. Lenin, central leader of the world’s first socialist revolution, waged what was to be his last political battle. At stake was whether that revolution would remain on the proletarian course that had brought workers and peasants in the former tsarist empire to power in October 1917and laid the foundations for a truly worldwide revolutionary movement of toilers organizing to emulate the Bolsheviks’ example.
Lenin’s Final Fight brings together, for the first time, the reports, articles, and letters through which Lenin
waged this political battle. Many were suppressed for decades, and some have never before appeared in English. Second edition
includes new introduction by Jack Barnes and Steve Clark.
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Is
Socialist Revolution in the U.S. Possible?
A Necessary Debate
By Mary-Alice
Waters
Price: $7
Also available in: Spanish, French
In two talks, presented as part of a wide-ranging debate at the 2007 and 2008 Venezuela
International Book Fairs, Mary-Alice Waters explains why a socialist revolution in the United States is
possible. Revolutionary struggles by working people are inevitable. They will be initiated not by the
toilers, but will be forced upon us by the crisis-driven assaults by the propertied classes on our
conditions of life and labor. In growing solidarity and the emergence of a fighting vanguard of working
people, the outlines of these coming class battles can be seen.
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Our
History Is Still Being Written
The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution
By Armando
Choy, Gustavo
Chui, Moisés
Sío Wong, Mary-Alice
Waters
Price: $20
Readers club price: $17
Also available in: Spanish, Chinese
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A chapter in the chronicle of the
Cuban Revolution, as told by those on the front lines of that ongoing epic. Armando
Choy, Gustavo Chui, and Moisés Sío Wong talk about the historic place of
Chinese immigration to Cuba, as well as more than five decades of revolutionary
action and internationalism, from Cuba to Angola, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
Through their stories the social and political forces that gave birth to the Cuban
nation and still shape our epoch unfold. We see how millions of ordinary men and
women like them changed the course of history, becoming different human beings in the
process.
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Pathfinder is upgrading its books to better, easier to use
editions. As each upgraded title comes off the press, members
of the Pathfinder Readers Club can buy them at a
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Labor's Giant Step
By Art Preis
Price: $30
Readers Club price: $21
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Che Guevara Speaks
By Ernesto Che Guevara
Price: $15
Readers Club price: $10.50
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The story of the explosive labor struggles and political battles in the 1930s that built the industrial unions. And how those
unions became the vanguard of a mass social movement that began transforming U.S. society.
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In twenty speeches, interviews, and letters, Guevara dissects the workings of the imperialist system with scientific clarity,
unflinching truthfulness, and biting humor.
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Fighting Racism in World War II
From the pages of the Militant
Price: $25
Readers Club price: $17.50
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A week-by-week account from 1939 to 1945 of efforts to advance the Black rights struggle in face of patriotic appeals to
postpone resistance to lynch-mob terror and racist discrimination until after U.S. “victory” in World War II.
These struggles—of a piece with rising anti-imperialist battles in Africa, Asia, and the Americas—helped lay the
basis for the mass civil rights movement in the postwar decades.
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Pathfinder Was Born with the October
Revolution
in English,
Spanish, and French
By Mary-Alice Waters
Price: $4 Readers Club price: $2.80
Pathfinder Press traces its continuity to those who launched the worldwide effort to defend and emulate the first socialist
revolution—the October 1917 revolution in Russia. Pathfinder books aim to “advance the understanding, confidence,
and combativity of working people.”
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New French translation from Pathfinder
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Le manifeste
communiste The Communist Manifesto
By Karl Marx, Frederick Engels
Price: $5
Readers Club price: $3.50
Also in English, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi
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Founding document of the modern revolutionary workers movement, published in 1848. Explains why communism
is not a set of preconceived principles but the line of march of the working class toward power, “springing
from an existing class struggle, a historical movement going on under our very eyes.” Introduction by Leon
Trotsky, notes, index.
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Why abortion rights are central not only to the fight for the full emancipation of women, but to forging a
united and fighting labor movement.
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| The Communist International in Lenin’s Time
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“For international revolution.” Demonstration near Smolny,
Petrograd, at time of Second Congress. (Humbert-Droz Archives) | This
series brings together documents, reports, and speeches by
working-class political leaders who fought in the early decades of the
twentieth century to oppose imperialist war by organizing the working class and farmers to
overthrow their capitalist rulers.
The series begins with debates in the working class movement over
war, colonialism, and reform and revolution in the years leading up to
the First World War and the Russian revolution. Later volumes take up
the Russian revolution itself, the postwar revolutionary upsurge in
Germany, the first two congresses of the Communist International, and
the Congress of the Peoples of the East, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in
1920.
Much of the material appears in print in English for the first time.
Each volume includes photos, annotation, a glossary, a chronology, and
an index.
“This is the definitive version. Should be in all academic
libraries.”—Choice
“Brings together an excellent choice of important and revealing
documents.… The entire series will be important resources for any library of twentieth-century
history.”—Robert V. Daniels, editor, A Documentary History of Communism
Titles in the series:
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Books about the case of the
Cuban Five and the defense of workers rights in the United States
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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 necessaryit 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. governments 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. governmentunder 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
programcode-named Cointelprodirected against socialists and activists in the Black and
anti-Vietnam War movements. The operations revealed in the documents cited in this bookmany of them
photographically reproducedprovide 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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| Behind the capitalist crisis of production and jobs
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The Clintons' Antilabor Legacy:
Roots of the 2008 World Financial Crisis
By Jack Barnes in New International no. 14
ISBN 978-1-60488-005-2 $14
Also available in Spanish
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Capitalism's Long
Hot Winter Has Begun
By Jack Barnes
in New International no. 12
ISBN 978-0-87348-967-6 $16
Also available in Spanish, French, Swedish, Greek
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Explains that “the Clinton administration was responsible for decisive steps enabling the U.S. rulers
to erect the enormous edifice of household, corporate, and government debt, and its accompanying array of
derivatives, that are at the foundation of the current world financial crisis.”
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Today’s sharpening interimperialist conflicts are fueled both by the opening stages
of
what will be decades of economic, financial, and social convulsions and class battles, and by the most
far-reaching shift in Washington's military policy and organization since the U.S. buildup toward World War
II.
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What the 1987 Stock Market Crash
Foretold
By Jack Barnes in New International no. 10
ISBN 978-0-87348-773-3 $16
Also available in Spanish, French, Swedish
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Capitalism's World
Disorder
Working-Class Politics at the Millennium By Jack Barnes
ISBN 978-0-87348-818-1 $24
Also available in Spanish, French
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“What the 1987 Stock Market Crash Foretold,” a 1988 resolution of the
Socialist Workers Party, explains that the stock market crash of 1987 exposed the vulnerability of the
capitalist world to the pile of debt whose worldwide buildup had accelerated since the early 1970s. It
points out that new regulation of the financial system can not prevent another crash; that the banking
system can not be protected from the consequences of a financial collapse as decades’ worth of credit
balloons deflate; and that a worldwide depression is inevitable in the years ahead. This issue also
features “Imperialism's March Toward Fascism and War,” which follows these developments into
the
mid-1990s.
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The social devastation and financial panic now engulfing the world, the coarsening of
politics, the cop brutality, the restrictions on workers' rights, the relentless acts of imperialist
aggression—all are products not of something gone wrong with capitalism but of its lawful workings.
Yet the future can be changed by the united struggle of workers and farmers increasingly conscious of their
power to transform the world.
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Is
Socialist Revolution in the U.S. Possible?
A Necessary Debate By Mary-Alice Waters
ISBN: 978-1-60488-018-2 $7
Also available in Spanish. First edition available in French
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Cuba and the Coming American
Revolution
By Jack Barnes
ISBN: 978-0-87348-990-4 $10
Also available in Spanish, French
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"To think that a socialist revolution in the U.S. is not possible, you would have to
believe not only that the ruling families of the imperialist countries and their economic wizards have
found
a way to ‘manage’ capitalism. You would also have to close your eyes to the spreading imperialist wars,
civil wars, and economic, financial, and social crises we are in the midst of."
—Mary-Alice Waters Caracas, Venezuela, November 2007
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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.
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The Transitional
Program for Socialist Revolution
By Leon Trotsky
ISBN 978-0-87348-524-1 $20
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U.S.
Imperialism Has Lost the Cold War
In New International no. 11 By Jack Barnes
ISBN 978-087348-796-2 $16
Also available in Spanish, French, Swedish
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So long as the profit system prevails, there is no exit from the economic “blind
alley” in which capitalism worldwide finds itself, wrote Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1938.
Trotsky presents a political program for working people to defend themselves against the devastating
conditions of economic depression and political instability of the 1930s. The interlinked immediate,
democratic, and transitional demands begin from the conditions of capitalist society today but lead
immediately to the limits of capitalism itself. The Transitional Program remains an irreplaceable component
of a fighting guide for workers today.
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Contrary to the hopes of the propertied rulers of North America and Europe, the collapse
of regimes and parties across Eastern Europe and in the USSR that claimed to be Communist did not usher in
a
new epoch of stability and prosperity anywhere in the world. Issue no. 11 of the Marxist magazine New
International analyzes these failed expectations of the capitalists and their spokespeople. It explains
why the historic odds in favor of the working class have increased, not diminished, at the opening of the
21st century.
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The
Communist Manifesto
By Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
ISBN 978-1-60488-003-8 $5
Also available in Spanish, French
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Imperialism, The
Highest Stage of Capitalism
By V.I. Lenin
ISBN 978-0-87348-965-2 $10.00
Also available in Spanish, French, Farsi
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Why is all recorded history “the history of class struggles”? Why is the
capitalist state “but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie”?
Why
does capital’s need of a constantly expanding market “chase the bourgeoisie over the whole
surface of the globe”? These questions remain as vital today as they were a century and a half
ago.
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“I trust that this pamphlet will help the reader to understand the fundamental
economic question, that of the economic essence of imperialism,” Lenin wrote in 1917. “For
unless this is studied, it will be impossible to understand and appraise modern war and modern
politics.”
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