FootnotesChapter 1 - Cuba Today1. Financial Times, London, 24 March, 1999 2. Keesing's Record of World Events, 1991, p37814 3. Ibid, p38141 4. The Independent, London, 20 July, 1998 5. Cuban Foreign Trade Minister, Ricardo Cabrisas, 2 May 1996, quoted in Keesing's, May 1996 6. The Guardian, London, 16 November, 1999 7. The Independent, 19 October, 1999 8. The Guardian, 10 August, 1998 9. John Percy, "A History of the Democratic Socialist Party - The First Two Decades", p33 10. Ibid, p35 11. Ibid, p47 12. This individual attended the International Executive Committee of the CWI in November 1997, as a visitor with full rights to speak and participate in the weeklong meeting. Yet, he achieved the rare feat of not uttering a word in the official discussions, and very little in any private discussions which took place! 13. Doug Lorimer, "The Cuban Revolution and Its Leadership: A Criticism of Peter Taaffe's Pamphlet 'Cuba: Analysis of the Revolution" in The Activist, p3 14. Percy, p37 15. Three Conceptions of the Russian Revolution, Writings of Leon Trotsky (1939-40), p59 16. Ibid, p60 17. Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution, Pathfinder, 1969, p142 18. Lorimer, "Trotsky's theory of Permanent Revolution: A Leninist critique" p13 19. Ibid, p14 20. Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution, pp171-2 21. Ibid, p226 22. Lorimer, The Cuban Revolution, p8 23. For example, John Bulaitis and Phil Hearse opposed our proposals to change the name of our party from Militant Labour to the Socialist Party. However, once our conference had rejected their position by a massive majority they promptly deserted, Hearse to Mexico City and Bulaitis to his own tiny sectarian organisation in Britain. Bulaitis has ended up as a self-confessed 'liquidationist'; he no longer believes in the need for a revolutionary party based on the ideas of democratic centralism, while Hearse occasionally threatens to come out of retirement to denounce the CWI. He was invited to the DSP-sponsored 'Socialism 2000' held in Sydney at the beginning of that year. 24. Lorimer, The Cuban Revolution, p3 25. Ibid, p3 Chapter 2 - Lenin & Castro26. Lorimer, The Cuban Revolution, p5 27. Peter Taaffe "Cuba: Analysis of the Revolution", p5 28. Lorimer, The Cuban Revolution, pp6-7 29. Carlos Franqui, Family Portrait with Fidel, p149 30. Ibid, pp152-153 31. Franqui, 'Journal de la révolution cubaine', quoted by Janette Habel, Cuba: the Revolution in Peril, p107 32. Franqui, Family Portrait with Fidel, p153 33. Ibid, pp153-154 34. Castro quoted in Hugh Thomas, 'Cuba - The Pursuit of Freedom', p829 35. Ibid, p831-2 36. Ibid, p833 37. Ibid, p921 38. Ibid, p921 39. Che Guevara, Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution, republished in Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution, p133 40. Jon Lee Anderson, "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life", p235 41. Ibid, p245 42. Tad Szulc, "Fidel a Critical Portrait", p373 43. Ibid, p391 44. Lorimer, The Cuban Revolution, p7 45. John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World, p129 46. Lorimer, The Cuban Revolution, p7 47. Che Guevara, The Essence of Guerrilla Struggle, the first part of chapter 1 of La guerra de guerrillas, republished in Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution, pp76 and 77. 48. Thomas, pp1108-1109 49. Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution, p79 50. Taaffe, p5 Chapter 3 - The World Balance of Forces51. Szulc, pp397-398 52. Anderson p413 53. Ibid, p414 54. Ibid, p415 55. Szulc, p424 56. Andrew St George, 'A Visit with a Revolutionary', published in 'Coronet', February 1958, and reprinted in Robert Scheer and Maurice Zeitlin, 'Cuba: an American Tragedy', p63 57. Quoted by Scheer and Zeitlin, p64 58. Look magazine, November 1960, quoted by Scheer and Zeitlin, p64 59. Anderson, p476 60. Javier Pazoz, a son of a former president of the Cuban National Bank, who himself was a civil servant in the Ministry of Economics before going into exile, reported in New Republic, 12 January 1963 and quoted by Scheer and Zeitlin, p87 61. Anderson, p482 62. Ibid, p471 63. This is a reference to the Cuban Stalinists and not to genuine 'communists'. 64. Franqui, Family Portrait with Fidel, pp32-33 65. Interview in Scheer and Zeitlin, pp341-342 66. Franqui, Family Portrait with Fidel, pp76-77 67. Franqui is wrong to describe Russia as imperialist. It is true that the Russian bureaucracy acted in the world arena to ensure the maintenance and enhancement of their own national interests. However, it generally supplied Cuba and other states in the neo-colonial world with resources, particularly primary products, at below their prices on the world market. 68. Franqui, Family Portrait with Fidel pp77-78 69. Ibid, pp78-79 70. Ibid, pp104-105 71. Ibid, pp219-221 72. Szulc, pp428-429 73. Lorimer, The Cuban Revolution, p12 74. Ibid, p18 75. Szulc, p482 76. Ibid, p513 77. Ibid, p514 78. Ibid, p514 79. Ibid, p530 80. Ibid, p531 81. Ibid, p532 82. Ibid, pp532-533 Chapter 4 - Is there a Privileged Elite?83. Lorimer, The Cuban Revolution, p13 84. Anderson, p593 85. Ibid p503 86. Maspero in Habel, preface, p.xxiii 87. Ibid, p.xxii 88. Aspillaga was associated with the British secret services. 89. Habel, pp58-60 90. Ibid, p60 91. Franqui, Family Portrait with Fidel, p145 92. Originally in Nation magazine by Maurice Zeitlin, republished in Scheer and Zeitlin, p238 93. Ibid, pp233-234 94. Ibid, p234 95. Ibid, p238 96. Ibid, p238 97. Zeitlin, "Cuba's Workers, Workers' Cuba, p.xvi 98. Ibid, pp xix-xx 99. Franqui, Family Portrait with Fidel, pp117-118 100. Ibid, p118 101. Zeitlin, 1969, pp.xxv-xxvi 102. Ibid, p.xxvii 103. Ibid, p.xxviii 104. Ibid, p.xxix 105. Ibid, p.xl 106. Ibid, p.xlvii (Zeitlin's emphasis) 107. Ibid, p.xlviii 108. KS Karol, Guerrillas in Power, pp184-185 109. Ibid, p328 110. Ibid, p452 111. Ibid, p459 112. Lorimer, The Cuban Revolution, p16 113. Habel, p81 114. Ibid, p81 115. Ibid, p82 116. Pisani, writing in Le Monde diplomatique, December 1987, quoted by Habel, p84 117. Szulc, p29 118. Ibid, p498 119. Félix de la Uz, quoted in Habel, p80 120. Pisani, ibid, quoted by Habel pp84-85 121. Habel, p85 122. Anderson, p416 Chapter 5 - Foreign Policy123. Che Guevara, 'Cuba: Historical Exception or Vanguard of the Anti-Colonialist Struggle?' First published in Verde Olivio, 9 April, 1961, quoted in Anderson, p505 124. KS Karol, 'Cuba and the USSR', in 'Cuban Communism', p759 125. Marx was referring to the prolonged mass uprising of the peasants against feudalism in Germany in the sixteenth century. 126. The size and influence of the Indonesian working class is indicated by the following extract from the excellent pamphlet of the CWI on Indonesia: "The total labour force in Indonesia is 86 million strong. About 15% work in the manufacturing and petrochemical sector, 35% in service industries and 50% in agriculture. The number of industrial workers has vastly increased in recent decades because of the industrialisation of Indonesia. At the beginning of the '90s there was a big rise in the number of working class struggles. In 1994 there was a total of 1,130 strikes - an increase of 350% in relation to 1993! In the same year there were 100 student demonstrations and 50 peasant actions." ['Indonesia: An Unfinished Revolution'] 127. Lorimer, The Cuban Revolution, p22 128. Ibid, pp22-23 129. Ibid, p23 130. Habel, p124 131. Lorimer, The Cuban Revolution, p24 132. Ibid, p26 133. Castro, speaking on 23 August 1968, quoted ibid, p24 134. Ibid, p26 135. Anderson, p586 136. Taaffe, p13 137. Lorimer, The Cuban Revolution, p26 138. Ibid, p27 139. Szulc, p527 140. Tony Saunois, Che Guevara, Symbol of Struggle, p54 141. Lorimer, The Cuban Revolution, p27 142. Szulc, p535 Chapter 6 - Conclusion143. Szulc, p499 144. Ibid, pp499-500 145. Quoted in Szulc, p500 146. Ibid, pp498-499 147. Financial Times,4 January 2000 148. Ibid 149. Saunois, p62 150. Ibid, p63 |