Mike Gonzalez (historian)
Mike Gonzalez (born 1943) is a British historian and literary critic, who was Professor of Latin American Studies in the Hispanics Department of the University of Glasgow.[1]
He has written widely on Latin America. In his writings and speeches concerning Cuba, Gonzalez is particularly critical of the events that followed the Cuban Revolution of 1959, regarding Cuba as a state-capitalist economy in direct contradiction to grassroots socialism.
A long-time member of the British Socialist Workers Party; he testified in the Sheridan defamation trial and HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan in Tommy Sheridan's defence. Gonzalez is also a member of Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement, the party Sheridan formed after the split in the Scottish Socialist Party.
In 2013, he aligned himself with the opposition in the SWP, and wrote material critical of the Central Committee.[2]
Selected articles/works
- Cuba, Castro and Socialism (with Peter Binns) (1980)
- Cuba, socialism and the third world with Peter Binns and Alex Callinicos) (1980)
- Nicaragua : revolution under siege (1985)
- Nicaragua : what went wrong? (1990)
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Chile
- Which way forward for the movement? (with Alex Callinicos) (2002)
- Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution (2004)
- Bolivia: Rising of a People(2005)
- A rebel's guide to Marx (2005)
- The split in the Scottish Socialist Party(2006)
- Hugo Chávez: Socialist for the Twenty-First Century (2014)
- The Last Drop: The Politics of Water (2015) with Marianella Yanes
External links
- Mike Gonzalez Internet Archive
- 'Revolution Stalled? Venezuela and Bolivia: An Interview with Mike Gonzalez' State of Nature, July 2010
References
- ↑ From the Hispanic Studies section of the Glasgow University website.
- ↑ Gonzalez, Mike (21 May 2013). "Teaching Callinicos a lesson". Weekly Worker.
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