Mike Gonzalez (historian)
- Mike Gonzalez (historian)
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For other people of the same name, see Mike Gonzalez (disambiguation).
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
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Categories:
- British Trotskyists
- Historians of Latin America
- Latin Americanists
- Marxist historians
- Socialist Workers Party (UK) members
- 1943 births
- Living people
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