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HANDS OFF CUBA | Reading List

The Trump administration’s escalation of the illegal blockade on Cuba has forced the nation to ration food and fuel, triggering a humanitarian crisis. This is but the latest attempt by the U.S. to destroy Revolutionary Cuba. For more on that history, consider these titles.

 

 

Verso Books11 February 2026

HANDS OFF CUBA | Reading List

The United States, emboldened by its kidnapping of Venezuela’s sitting President, Nicolás Maduro, openly declared in January that it aims to destroy the Communist Party of Cuba by the end of the year.

Trump’s venomous claim that Cuba poses “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States is made all the more absurd as the nation faces rolling blackouts, devastating food shortages, and a throttling of its medical supplies. The only threat presented by the peaceful nation is, as Salvador Allende once said, that “the Cuban revolution is a national revolution, but it is also a revolution of the whole of Latin America. It has shown the way for the liberation of all our peoples.”<

For further reading on the Cuban Revolution, its reverberations throughout the world, and the U.S.’s long war on the nation, consider the titles below.

We've also made the ebook for The Declarations of Havana free to download. 

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  • No God But Gain
    From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and as many as 100 million Africans died as a result of the slave trade. The U.S. constitution set a 20-yea...
    Paperback
  • Revolution in the Revolution?
    Revolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 1967, it became a controversial handbook for guerrilla warfare...
    Paperback
  • Che Wants to See You

    Che Wants to See You

    For the first time, Ciro Bustos, Che’s right-hand man in the struggle for Argentina, tells his story. As a young man inspired by the example of Cuba, Bustos was determined to bring revolution to th...
  • The Last Soldiers of the Cold War

    The Last Soldiers of the Cold War

    Through the 1980s and 1990s, violent anti-Castro groups based in Florida carried out hundreds of military attacks on Cuba, bombing hotels and shooting up Cuban beaches with machine guns. The Cuba...
    Paperback
  • The Age of Globalization
    The exchange of ideas makes history as surely as the exchange of gunfire. The Age of Globalization (previously published as Under Three Flags) is an account of the unlikely connections that made ...
    Paperback
  • Class War
    A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the...
  • Where the Boys Are
    The ignominious failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 marked the culmination of a curious episode at the height of the Cold War. At the end of the fifties, restless and rebellious youth, avan...
    Paperback
  • Cuba

    Cuba

    Revolutionary Cuba today faces challenges and perils greater than at any time since the defeat of the US-backed ‘Bay of Pigs’ invasion in 1961. The Soviet Union, Cuba’s main ally, is both weakened ...
    Hardback
  • Praised Be Our Lords

    Praised Be Our Lords

    Régis Debray is one of France’s leading intellectuals, whose life has intersected with key moments of the twentieth century.In this explosive memoir, Debray recounts his journey from Louis Althusse...
    Paperback

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