Mike Gonzalez (historian)

Mike Gonzalez (historian)

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. In his writings and speeches concerning Cuba, Gonzalez is particularly critical of the events that followed the Cuban Revolution of 1959, regarding Cuba as a state-capitalist economy in direct contradiction to grassroots socialism.

A leading member of the British Socialist Workers Party; he testified in the Sheridan defamation trial and HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan in Tommy Sheridan's defence. Gonzalez is also a member of Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement, the party Sheridan formed after the split in the Scottish Socialist Party.

Selected articles/works

Interviews with Mike Gonzalez

References

  1. ^ From the Hispanic Studies section of the Glasgow University website.

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