Review by Graham Matthews
Cuba: How the Workers & Peasants Made the Revolution
By Chris Slee
Resistance Books, 2008
55 pages, $6 (pb)
Available from <http://www.resistancebooks.com>
May 10, 2008 -- There is a myth perpetrated by some on the left, that there never really was a revolution in Cuba.
The Cuban “revolution”, they claim, was just the result of the collapse
of the brutal, US-backed Batista regime, followed by the filling of the
political vacuum by the few hundred guerrillas that made up the July 26
Movement (J26M). These fighters simply marched down from the mountains
to take power in Havana, installing the Castro brothers as virtual
dictators.