Mary-Alice Waters

Since the founding of the modern workers movement 150 years ago, Marxists have championed the struggle for women's rights and explained the economic roots in class society of women's oppression. Photos.

Feminism and the Marxist Movement

Interviews with Four Generals of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces

Making History

Martín Koppel

* Transforming production and class relations * The Cuban revolution's internationalist road"In the decades of wars, economic crises, and explosive class battles that lie ahead, the weight of the toilers of Africa in shaping the future will be greater than ever before."Reporting from Equatorial Guinea in central Africa, the authors focus on the social transformations unfolding, as revenues from offshore oil extraction are used to build infrastructure on which rising labor productivity, industry, and progress depend. Pulled into the world market as never before, both a capitalist class and a working class are being born.Here also, in accounts of the work of volunteer Cuban medical brigades in Equatorial Guinea, is the living example of Cuba's socialist revolution-made possible by workers and farmers who were led five decades ago to take power into their own hands.Woven together, these seemingly disparate threads-the beginning transformation of production and class relations in Equatorial Guinea, and the proletarian course of the Cuban Revolution-show a future to be fought for today."Reliable basic information about contemporary Equatorial Guinea, information that would be of much value to any reader who is not familiar with the country."-African Studies QuarterlyIntroduction by Mary-Alice Waters, photos, maps, index.

Reports from Equatorial Guinea

Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa

Evelyn Reed

Joseph Hansen

How big business plays on women's second-class status and social insecurities to market cosmetics and rake in profits. The introduction by Waters explains how the entry of millions of women into the workforce during and after World War II irreversibly changed U.S. society and laid the basis for a renewed rise of struggles for women's emancipation."A lively and surprisingly timely historical lesson in the ever-raging controversy surrounding women, beauty, and oppression."Ms.Introduction by Mary-Alice Waters, photos, notes, index.

Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women

Teté Puebla

Brigadier General Teté Puebla, the highest-ranking woman in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces, joined the struggle to overthrow the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1956, when she was fifteen years old. This is her story—from clandestine action in the cities, to serving as an officer in the victorious Rebel Army's first all-women's unit—the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon. For nearly fifty years, the fight to transform the social and economic status of women in Cuba has been inseparable from Cuba's socialist revolution.

Teté Puebla & the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon in Cuba's Revolutionary War, 1956-58

Marianas in Combat

Che Guevara

Exchanges from the early 1960s and from today on the relevance of the political and economic perspectives defended by Ernesto Che Guevara.

Che Guevara, Cuba, and the Road to Socialism

Ernesto Guevara

Fidel Castro

Michael Taber

In December 1956 Guevara was part of the expedition that landed in Cuba aboard the yacht Granma to begin the guerrilla struggle. Originally the troop doctor, Guevara became a commander of the Rebel Army.

The Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara

Guevara's day-by-day chronicle of the 1966-67 guerrilla campaign in Bolivia, an effort to forge a continent-wide revolutionary movement of workers and peasants and open the road to socialist revolution in South America. Includes excerpts from the diaries and accounts of other combatants, including-for the first time in English-My Campaign with Che by Bolivian leader Inti Peredo. Selected for inclusion in "Significant Books of the Last 75 Years."-Foreign Affairs "Waters' meticulously edited pair of volumes [Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War and The Bolivian Diary] is now the best original source for English-speaking scholars. Her attention to detail and her precision do not overcome the rough eloquence that was Guevara's style; the transcendental message of a new moral order bites through the prose with deceptive simplicity."-Hispanic American Historical Review "Beautifully edited and illustrated...."-Russell W. Ramsey, Troy State University, in Hispanic American Historical Review Introductions by Mary-Alice Waters and Fidel Castro, 16-page photo section plus other photos, maps, reproductions of documents, List of Combatants, chronology, glossary, notes, index.

Rodolfo Saldaña

Saldaña was one of the Bolivians who joined ranks in 1966-67 with Ernesto Che Guevara to forge a revolutionary movement of workers, peasants, and young people to overturn the military dictatorship in Bolivia and open the road to socialist revolution in South America. He describes the unresolved battles of the tin miners, peasants, and indigenous peoples of his country that created “fertile ground” for Guevara’s revolutionary course and mark out the future of Bolivia and the Americas. Foreword by Harry Villegas, introduction by Mary-Alice Waters, 8-page photo section plus additional photos, map, chronology, notes, index.

Che Guevara and Bolivia : a Firsthand Account

Fertile Ground

The world of capitalist disorder?the imperialist reality of the 21st century?would not be strange to Che, Waters explains. "Far from being dismayed by the odds we face, he would have examined the world with scientific precision and charted a course to win." Photos, notes.

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