War, Racism and Economic Injustice

[Fidel Castro]

I have just finished the book, "War, Racism and Economic Injustice", which is a collection of recent speeches and an interview of Fidel Castro.

I must say that I myself found this to be an interesting read, not only because Fidel addresses the title issues, but also because Fidel also manages to effectively defend the Cuban Revolution and address the problems of Cuba today, such as human rights issues, inequality in society, the trade embargo and racial issues in Cuba.

Has anyone else read this book?

[Dirty Commie]

I haven't seen it...where dids you get it? what year was it published?

[Fidel Castro]

It is a rather new book, published in 2002 by "Ocean Press"

I myself bought the book on-line from www.cubaconnect.co.uk. It is a branch of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign and all profits go towards the campaign and some aid for Cuba.

[Dirty Commie]

Do you know of any online database for his speeches? I've seen one a while ago, but the site closed.

[Cobra]

I’ve read it as well as Capitalism in Crisis (where Fidel explains how capitalism is an economic disaster), My Early Years (where in an interview Fidel tells about growing up in the Oriente [sp?]), To Speak The Truth (which has some great speeches by Che), as well as reading some others whose names I can’t remember. After I read Capitalism in Crisis I made the decision to reject capitalism and become a communist. I love Fidel’s speeches. I printed off some of them from granma.cu and have them posted all over my wall.

War, Racism, and Economic Injustice is a good collection of Fidel’s more recent speeches dealing with contemporary issues, though Fidel never neglects to give us lessons in history. I especially liked his speech at Harlem where he talked about the much-ignored Third World of the United States and the 250 students getting scholarships to go to Cuba and become doctors. His speeches gave good information on AIDs in Africa, the need for more doctors in the Third world and the need for new medicines, and the dangers of the US imperialism in Latin America. In the last couple chapters he does an excellent job telling of the dangers of “the war on terrorism” in the book’s last few pages.

I was a little bothered that at the end of Federico Mayor’s interview Fidel Says:


I have come to the come to the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches ought to be short.

I’m going to miss Fidel's 8 hour-long speeches :(