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, especially Cuba and the Cuban Revolution of 1959. He characterizes Cuba as a state-capitalist economy rather than socialist.
A long-time member of the British Socialist Workers Party, he testified in Tommy Sheridan's defence at the Sheridan defamation trial and HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan. Gonzalez is also a member of Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement, the party Sheridan formed after the split in the Scottish Socialist Party.
Dr Francis King (University of East Anglia) wrote: Mike Gonzalez "allows his own (trotskisant) sympathies to intrude too obtrusively into his analysis."[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.
- ↑ King, Francis (2017). "Stephen A. Smith, ed., the Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism; Silvio Pons, the Global Revolution: A History of International Communism 1917–1991". European History Quarterly. 47 (2): 388–391. doi:10.1177/0265691417695979mm. S2CID 197685129.