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THEORY
Jan Rehmann, Occupy Wall Street and the Question of Hegemony: A Gramscian Analysis
George C. Comninel, Critical Thinking and Class Analysis: Historical Materialism and Social Theory
REPRESSION & RESISTANCE
Steve Martinot, Probing the Epidemic of Police Murders
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, Political Struggle in the Teeth of Prison Reaction: From Virginia to Oregon
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PROBLEMS OF TRANSITION
Robert Weil, Yuanmingyuan Revisited: The Confrontation of China and the West
Robert Ware, Reflections on Chinese Marxism
Darko Suvin, Splendours and Miseries of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (1945-74)
BOOK REVIEWS
Tadeusz Kowalik, From Solidarity to Sellout: The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland reviewed by Ludmila Melchior-Yahil
Immanuel Ness, Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism reviewed by Bai Ruixue
Kate Hudson, The New European Left: A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century? reviewed by Steve McGiffen
George Katsiaficas, Asia's Unknown Uprisings, Vol. 1: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century reviewed by Michael Munk
Benjamin Shepard, Play, Creativity, and Social Movements: If I Can’t Dance, It’s Not My Revolution reviewed by Ryan Conrad
Ronnie Kasrils, The Unlikely Secret Agent reviewed by Suren Moodliar
David Gilbert, Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond reviewed by B. Loewe
Carl Davidson, ed., Revolutionary Youth & the New Working Class: The Praxis Papers, the Port Authority Statement, the RYM Documents and Other Lost Writings of SDS reviewed by George Fish
Notes on Contributors
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Cuban Strategies for Women’s Employment in the 1990s: A Case Study of Professional Women1
Introduction This article summarizes the results of a case study I recently concluded with women professionals and technicians in Cuba during the crisis of the 1990s; it is part of a larger study on Cuban women and employment. I intend … Continue reading
The Effects of the Reform on Cuba’s Social Structure: An Overview
1.) Introduction Cuba’s economic reform is one of the few experiments in socioeconomic change that currently defines itself as an alternative to neoliberal transformation that nearly exclusive and all-encompassing formula for structural readjustment to crises. Even though the reform deals … Continue reading
The Cuban Political System in the 1990s: Continuity and Change1
Looking at trends characterizing the century’s end, we can see that a new capitalist world order is emerging, clearly more unequal, more exclusionary, and more unstable than the postwar order. The traditional polarization of cold war rivalries has been replaced … Continue reading
Cuba: The Challenges of Being Global and Socialist… at the Same Time
Contemporary dilemmas in Cuba: an introduction Although usually presented in stilted academic discourse or strident ideological rhetoric, most debates about contemporary Cuba are in fact born from basic tensions of life. The demise of “really existing socialism” in Europe, the … Continue reading
The Relationship between Participation and Managerial Autonomy in Cuba’s Basic Units of Cooperative Production: Six Case Studies
Transformations in Cuba during the 1990s have been analyzed by numerous specialists. Among the changes in the agrarian sector, one of the most important was the creation of the Basic Units of Cooperative Production (UBPCs) in September 1993, a change … Continue reading
Recreating Racism: Race and Discrimination in Cuba’s “Special Period”*
“Race,” an Afro-Cuban-American businessman wrote in the Miami press not long ago, “is at the heart of Cuba’s crisis.” Although statements like this are not unheard-of, most analyses of the Cuban transition or the so-called “special period” treat the country … Continue reading
The Cuba Issue Collective Section III: The Agrarian Sector
Introduction Cuba’s agrarian reform of 1993-a result of change subsequent to the collapse of the Socialist Bloc-may turn out to be the most far-reaching since the first agrarian reform of 1959. The two articles in this section study this process … Continue reading
The Cuba Issue Collective Section II: Government
Introduction The Cuban system of representative government, known as the Organs of People’s Power (Órganos del Poder Popular or OPP), operates at three levels: the National Assembly, the provincial assemblies, and the municipal assemblies. The latter two are denominated the … Continue reading
The Cuba Issue Collective Section I: Economy and Society
Introduction Every Cuban felt the effect of the economic crisis following the collapse of the Eastern socialist bloc and the suspension of CMEA (socialist bloc common market) trading agreements. From 1990 to 1993, according to official statistics, the GNP fell … Continue reading
Introduction: The Cuba Issue Collective
This special issue on Cuba stems from Socialism and Democracy’s fifteen-year history of theoretical and practical concern with the interrelated fortunes of socialism and democracy in the contempor- ary world. Because Cuba occupies such an important place among the countries … Continue reading