Women and Revolution
The Living Example of the Cuban Revolution
2013
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The changes in women’s economic, social, and political status in Cuba since 1959 have been “a revolution within the revolution.” These gains have not been conquered simply parallel to, let alone outside, the historic struggle by Cuba’s working people, male and female, to throw off the chains of US imperialist domination and capitalist rule. To the contrary, in the words of former Cuban president Fidel Castro, the fight for women’s equality has been “a moral necessity, a revolutionary necessity” inseparably intertwined with the uncompromising battles through which Cuba’s toilers have defended their socialist course—transforming themselves in the process.
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Mary-Alice Waters
Author · 9 books
Socialist feminist, journalist and activist in the United States. Waters became involved in Trotskyist politics at a young age, and joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the 1960s. She became the editor of their youth paper, Young Socialist, and the national secretary of the Young Socialist Alliance. In the early 1980s, Waters, along with Jack Barnes and others in the SWP leadership, began to reject the label of "Trotskyism" and the theory of Permanent Revolution, in favour of building links with the Cuban Communist Party and Sandinista National Liberation Front. Today, Waters is the President of the Pathfinder Press and the editor of New International magazine. She has written a number of books on political topics.
