Fidel Castro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3764929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fidel Castro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fidel |
| FAMILY NAME | Castro |
| SIGNATURE | CASTRO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ministerio de Salud Pública |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Empire and the Independent Island
The history of Cuba during the last 140 years is one of both struggle to preserve national identity and independence and the history of the evolution of the American empire, with its constant craving to appropriate Cuba and of the horrendous methods that it uses today to hold on to world domination. Prominent Cuban historians have dealt in depth with these subjects in different periods and in various excellent books that deserve to be readily ava…
Prison Letters of Fidel Castro
Address to the South Summit
Excellencies, distinguished delegates, and guests, Never before did humankind have such formidable scientific and technological potential, such extraordinary capacity to produce riches and well-being but never before were disparity and inequity so profound in the world.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly R…
Chronicle of a Friendship Foretold
The War on the Dark Corners of the World
The Roots of International Racism
Excellencies: Delegates and guests: Racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia are a social, cultural, and political phenomenon, not a natural instinct of human beings; they arise from wars, military conquests, slavery, and the individual or collective exploitation of the weakest by the most powerful throughout the history of human societies.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published …
Terrorism and the War Crisis
Whatever might be terrorism's deep origins, whatever the economic and political factors involved in it, and whoever might be most responsible for bringing it into the world, no one can deny that terrorism is today a dangerous and ethically indefensible phenomenon, which must be eradicated.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this arti…
Cuba and the struggle against global poverty
(2000). Cuba and the struggle against global poverty. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 1-25
Speech by Fidel Castro on the 40th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, January 1, 1999, Cespedes Park, Santiago de Cuba
(1999). Speech by Fidel Castro on the 40th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, January 1, 1999, Cespedes Park, Santiago de Cuba. The Black Scholar: Vol. 29, African Initiatives, pp. 39-42
Main report, speech at the closing
Cuba and the end of apartheid
La revolución, fruto del heroísmo del pueblo
Castro Speaks in Copenhagen
Now there is talk about social problems, about the problem of unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, and lack of healthcare that exists in much of the world. There is much talk about social development in a world where social development is in total contradiction to reality.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly …
Renewal or Death
The following speech was given by President Fidel Castro, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, at the party's third congress on February 7, 1986.Delegates to the congress elected a new Central Committee which then re-elected Fidel Castro first secretary of the Central Committee and Raúl Castro second secretary. The Central Committee also elected the new Political Bureau, Secretariat of the Central Committee, an…
Peace and Economic Development
On Grenada
Following is the text of a speech given by President Fidel Castro at the funeral of the 24 Cubans killed in Grenada. (Havana, November 14, 1983.)This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The World Economic and Social Crisis
Report on the Sixth Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries
(1980). Report on the Sixth Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries. The Black Scholar: Vol. 11, The Black Struggle: Miami & the Caribbean, pp. 29-49
Fidel Castro Interviewed on Ethiopia
An Interview with Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro Denounces Aggressions Against Cuba
(1976). Fidel Castro Denounces Aggressions Against Cuba. The Black Scholar: Vol. 8, Unity and Struggle against Domination, pp. 10-17
Salvador Allende
History Will Absolve Me. The Moncada Trial Defence Speech. Santiago de Cuba. October 16, 1953
From Castro's Closing Speech
We reproduce here a part of Fidel Castro's closing speech at the Tricontinental Conference, delivered in Havana on January 15th. This is the part which attacks Trotskyism and singles out Adolfo Gilly, a frequent contributor to MR, for special condemnation. Gilly's reply, containing his assessment of the results of the Conference, is included in this issue of MR beginning on page 21. Our own comments will be found in the Review of the Month above.…
Indemnity for Prisoners
With all respect I want to tell you the following: This committee has not taken any practical steps to carry the negotiations to a positive and immediate result. The delay in the negotiations is only useful to those who need this time to carry out against Cuba a campaign as hypocritical and hateful as the rest of the criminal proceedings against our fatherland that have been carried out by forces organized, equipped and managed by the Government …
Address to the South Summit
Excellencies, distinguished delegates, and guests, Never before did humankind have such formidable scientific and technological potential, such extraordinary capacity to produce riches and well-being but never before were disparity and inequity so profound in the world.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly R…
Cuba and the struggle against global poverty
(2000). Cuba and the struggle against global poverty. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 1-25
History Will Absolve Me
As a result of low and illegal tactics by the will of those who rule today, and the weakness on the part of those who judge, here I am in this little room in the Civil Hospital, where I have been brought up to be
A Real Democracy
The following is part of the speech delivered by the Cuban Prime Minister to a huge gathering of citizens in the Plaza Civica, Havana, on May Day, 1960. —The EditorsThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Indemnity for Prisoners
With all respect I want to tell you the following: This committee has not taken any practical steps to carry the negotiations to a positive and immediate result. The delay in the negotiations is only useful to those who need this time to carry out against Cuba a campaign as hypocritical and hateful as the rest of the criminal proceedings against our fatherland that have been carried out by forces organized, equipped and managed by the Government …
From Castro's Closing Speech
We reproduce here a part of Fidel Castro's closing speech at the Tricontinental Conference, delivered in Havana on January 15th. This is the part which attacks Trotskyism and singles out Adolfo Gilly, a frequent contributor to MR, for special condemnation. Gilly's reply, containing his assessment of the results of the Conference, is included in this issue of MR beginning on page 21. Our own comments will be found in the Review of the Month above.…
History Will Absolve Me. The Moncada Trial Defence Speech. Santiago de Cuba. October 16, 1953
Salvador Allende
Fidel Castro Denounces Aggressions Against Cuba
(1976). Fidel Castro Denounces Aggressions Against Cuba. The Black Scholar: Vol. 8, Unity and Struggle against Domination, pp. 10-17
Fidel Castro Interviewed on Ethiopia
An Interview with Fidel Castro
Report on the Sixth Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries
(1980). Report on the Sixth Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries. The Black Scholar: Vol. 11, The Black Struggle: Miami & the Caribbean, pp. 29-49
On Grenada
Following is the text of a speech given by President Fidel Castro at the funeral of the 24 Cubans killed in Grenada. (Havana, November 14, 1983.)This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The World Economic and Social Crisis
Peace and Economic Development
Renewal or Death
The following speech was given by President Fidel Castro, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, at the party's third congress on February 7, 1986.Delegates to the congress elected a new Central Committee which then re-elected Fidel Castro first secretary of the Central Committee and Raúl Castro second secretary. The Central Committee also elected the new Political Bureau, Secretariat of the Central Committee, an…
Castro Speaks in Copenhagen
Now there is talk about social problems, about the problem of unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, and lack of healthcare that exists in much of the world. There is much talk about social development in a world where social development is in total contradiction to reality.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly …
Cuba and the end of apartheid
La revolución, fruto del heroísmo del pueblo
Main report, speech at the closing
Speech by Fidel Castro on the 40th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, January 1, 1999, Cespedes Park, Santiago de Cuba
(1999). Speech by Fidel Castro on the 40th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, January 1, 1999, Cespedes Park, Santiago de Cuba. The Black Scholar: Vol. 29, African Initiatives, pp. 39-42
Cuba and the struggle against global poverty
(2000). Cuba and the struggle against global poverty. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 1-25
The Roots of International Racism
Excellencies: Delegates and guests: Racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia are a social, cultural, and political phenomenon, not a natural instinct of human beings; they arise from wars, military conquests, slavery, and the individual or collective exploitation of the weakest by the most powerful throughout the history of human societies.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published …
Terrorism and the War Crisis
Whatever might be terrorism's deep origins, whatever the economic and political factors involved in it, and whoever might be most responsible for bringing it into the world, no one can deny that terrorism is today a dangerous and ethically indefensible phenomenon, which must be eradicated.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this arti…
Chronicle of a Friendship Foretold
The War on the Dark Corners of the World
Address to the South Summit
Excellencies, distinguished delegates, and guests, Never before did humankind have such formidable scientific and technological potential, such extraordinary capacity to produce riches and well-being but never before were disparity and inequity so profound in the world.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly R…
Political science (21 works) · History (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Cuban History and Society (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Economic history (4 works)