Dr. Jeffrey M. Elliot and former Rep. Mervyn M. Dymally here contribute a lengthy, revealing interview with Cuban President Fidel Castro, discussing a wide-ranging series of topics dealing with local and international politics and economics, as well as the future of Cuba, the third world, Central and South America, and the United States.

"Within the revolution, everything; against the revolution, nothing." This was the catchphrase of the historic 1961 meeting of Cuban artists and intellectuals when Fidel Castro made his famous address "Words to Intellectuals," setting the framework of cultural freedom of expression in the early years of the revolution. Includes recent commentaries.

Revolutionary Struggle 1947--1958: Volume 1 of the Selected Works of Fidel Castro is a comprehensive collection of Castro's chief statements -- letters, articles, interviews, press releases, proclamations, and decrees -- from the late 1940s to the fall of the Batista regime in 1959. An extensive editors' introduction places these statements in the context of both Castro's career and of the history of the Cuban revolutionary movement. A bibliography of Castro's works through 1958 is included as a tool for research.

The acclaimed autobiography of Fidel Castro, one of the towering political figures of our age, who dominated both Cuba and the world stage for over half a century. Here Castro tells his story in full for the first time, speaking openly about everything from his parents and earliest influences to his imprisonment, guerrilla war and the Cuban revolution and on to the Bay of Pigs, the missile crisis and his relationship with Che Guevara. He also remembers the people he knew, from John F. Kennedy to Ernest Hemingway. Whatever your views on Castro are, this is an essential record of an incredible...