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Table of Contents for – The Cuban Revolution: A Critical Perspective
The Cuban Revolution: an Anarchist Perspective ............................................................................................. 5Castro's Friendly Critics ..................................................................................................................................... 7From Waldo Frank to Rene Dumont ............................................................................................................. 7Dumont's Critique ........................................................................................................................................ 14Workers and Unions .................................................................................................................................... 14The Boss ....................................................................................................................................................... 15Censorship and Spying ................................................................................................................................. 15Education ..................................................................................................................................................... 17Cuba: A Military Dictatorship ...................................................................................................................... 17Agriculture is Militarized ............................................................................................................................. 17Dumont's Libertarian Socialist Proposals .................................................................................................... 17Dumont: Spurious Libertarian ..................................................................................................................... 19Wanted: A Libertarian Caudillo ................................................................................................................... 19The Character of the Cuban Revolution .......................................................................................................... 21A Non-Social Revolution .............................................................................................................................. 21Nationalization Versus Socialism ................................................................................................................. 21Russia and Cuba: Two Revolutions Compared ............................................................................................ 21Revolution the Latin American Way ............................................................................................................ 22"Communism" a la Castro ........................................................................................................................... 24The Real Revolution Is Yet To Come ............................................................................................................ 25The Ideology of Spanish Anarchism................................................................................................................. 25Anarchism in Cuba: the Forerunners ............................................................................................................... 29Anarchism in the Colonial Period ................................................................................................................ 29Struggle for Independence: 1868-1895 ....................................................................................................... 31Anarchists in the Struggle for Independence .............................................................................................. 32Cuban Independence: The Expansion of U.S. Imperialism .......................................................................... 32Independence to the Outbreak of World War I: 1898-1914 ....................................................................... 33Russian Revolution to the Machado Dictatorship: 1917-1925.................................................................... 35The Dictatorship of Machado: 1925-1933: .................................................................................................. 36Manifesto to the Cuban Workers and the People in General ..................................................................... 37The Batista Era ................................................................................................................................................. 38
 
The Communists and Batista ....................................................................................................................... 39The Crisis of the Labor Movement and the Anarchists: 1944-1952 ............................................................ 40Province of Pinar Del Rio ......................................................................................................................... 42Province of La Habana ............................................................................................................................. 42Province of Matanzas .............................................................................................................................. 43Province of Las Villas ............................................................................................................................... 43Province of Camaguey ............................................................................................................................. 43Province of Oriente.................................................................................................................................. 44The Role of the Libertarian Movement in the Anti-Batista Struggle ........................................................... 44The Revolution in Perspective: the Economic Background ............................................................................. 46Agricultural Production ............................................................................................................................... 48Industrial Production--non-Sugar ................................................................................................................ 48Anonymous Heroes of the Revolution ............................................................................................................ 51The Cuban Revolution: Anarchist Eyewitness Reports .................................................................................... 56The Cuban Revolution: A Direct Report by Augustin Souchy ...................................................................... 56Part One: Overall Evaluation of the Revolution ...................................................................................... 56Part Two: "We Visit the New Rural Cooperatives" .................................................................................. 58Moncada .................................................................................................................................................. 58Between Bayamo and Manzanillo ........................................................................................................... 59Statization of Manzanillo Shoe Factories ................................................................................................ 59The Primavera (springtime) Rice Cooperative ......................................................................................... 60The Hermanos Saenz Cooperative .......................................................................................................... 60San Vincente ............................................................................................................................................ 61The School City: "Camilo Cienfuegos" ..................................................................................................... 61Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Cuba, by Abelardo Iglesias ............................................................. 62Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 63History of a Fraud: The "March On Havana" ........................................................................................... 65Castro: The Anti-American Imperialist .................................................................................................... 66How Castro's Clique Rules Cuba .............................................................................................................. 69Cuban Labor In A Straitjacket .................................................................................................................. 71On Voluntary Labor ................................................................................................................................. 73 Regimenting Education ........................................................................................................................... 77Other Reports .............................................................................................................................................. 84
 
Why the Anarchist Broke With Castro's Regime ......................................................................................... 87Strangling the Opposition Press .............................................................................................................. 87The Position of the Cuban Anarchists Selected Documents (1960-1974) ....................................................... 98DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES OF THE LIBERTARIAN SYNDICALIST GROUP OF CUBA (HAVANA, 1960) ..... 98(1) Against the State in All its Forms. ...................................................................................................... 98(2) The Unions as the Economic Organ of the Revolution. ..................................................................... 99(3) The Land to Those Who Work It. ....................................................................................................... 99(4) The School Should Instruct; the Family Should Rear the Young. ..................................................... 100(5) The Struggle Against Nationalism, Militarism and Imperialism. ...................................................... 100(6) To Bureaucratic Centralism We Counterpose Federalism. .............................................................. 101(7) Without Individual Freedom There Can Be No Collective Freedom. ............................................... 101(8) The Revolution Belongs To Us All. .................................................................................................... 101MISCELLANEOUS DECLARATIONS 1961-1975 ........................................................................................... 102Statement of Cuban Libertarian Movement Addressed to its Sister Organizations of All Countries,August, 1961 .......................................................................................................................................... 102Message of theLibertarian Movement of Cuba in Exile To The Fifth Congress of the LibertarianFederation of Argentina (Buenos Aires, December, 1961) ................................................................... 103BOLETÍN de Información Libertaria General Delegation Libertarian Movement of Cuba in Exile (CaracasVenezuela, July 1962) ............................................................................................................................ 104Agrarian Labo And The Land.................................................................................................................. 104Abelardo Iglesias: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Cuba. .......................................................... 104Joint Statement Of The Libertarians Of The Americas (published in the U.S.S by the Cuban LibertarianMovement - Miami, 1986) ..................................................................................................................... 105Message from the Cuban Libertarian Movement in Exile (Miami, October 1974) ............................... 107Declaration of the Cuban Libertarian Movement in Exile (published in March, 1975)......................... 108Summation: Revolution and Counter-Revolution (Translated from Accion Lihertaria, Organ of theArgentine Libertarian Federation, Buenos Aires, July 1961) ................................................................. 109Cuba in the Late 1960’s and the 1970’s ........................................................................................................ 111Forming the New Man ............................................................................................................................... 111Relations With Russia ................................................................................................................................ 112Agriculture ................................................................................................................................................. 114Non-Agricultural Production ..................................................................................................................... 116Structure of Power in Cuba ........................................................................................................................... 116Reorganization of the Governmental Structure ........................................................................................ 117
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