Internationalism as A Current in The Peace Movement: A Symposium

Internationalism as A Current in The Peace Movement: A Symposiu

The deep, historical-roots of Cuban anti-imperialism

Colonialism, imperialism and anti-imperialism have been decisive in shaping Cuban political identity for 150 years. US determination to control Cuba, consistent with the Monroe Doctrine, had a strong economic rationale even before Spain was defeated in the War of Independence in 1898. Debate raged between Cubans who aspired to true independence and an annexationalist minority, who favoured union with the US. The Platt Amendment imposed on Cuba by the US in 1903 ‘reduced the independence and sovereignty of the Cuban republic to a myth’. Between then and the Revolution of 1959 Cuba was effectively first a protectorate and then neo-colony of the US, which dominated the Cuban economy, politics and foreign policy. Tackling the terrible socioeconomic and political effects of Cuba’s subjugation under the Spanish empire and then US imperialism necessitated a radical transformation of the Cuban economy, political institutions and power structures. The transition to socialism inevitably meant confronting US imperialism – and vice versa. Since 1959, US imperialism, with its powerful allies in the right-wing exile community based in Miami, have relentlessly tried to destroy the Revolution and Cuban socialism. The issue of imperialism remains key today, in the post-Fidel, President Trump era

America Russia and the Cold War

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CUSLAR after dinner discussions.

Recorded in Ithaca, NY by Cornell University., Sponsored by: Latin American Studies Program (LASP),Committee on United States-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR)., Speaker(s): Professor of history, Cornell, author of Inevitable Revolution., Lecture, October 31, 1988.LeFeber examines the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and relates America's modern Latin American policies to its previous history of intervention.1_ch7mou711_ump9dat

America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2006, 10/E.

Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on United States-Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It explores how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the U.S. and the Soviet Union and presents a variety of other points of view on the conflict--Chinese, Latin American, European, and Vietnamese. The text includes both engaging anecdotes and quotes from primary sources to support key points and exemplify policies, and recent scholarship and materials from openings of the U.S., Soviet, and Chinese archives