Mike Gonzalez (born 1943) is a British

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and literary critic who was Professor of Latin American Studies in the Hispanics Department of the

University of Glasgow The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as ''Glas.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals; ) is a Public university, public research university in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded by papal bull in , it is the List of oldest universities in continuous ...

. He has written widely on Latin America, especially

Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...

and the

Cuban Revolution The Cuban Revolution () was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état, in which Batista overthrew ...

of 1959. He characterizes Cuba as a state-capitalist economy rather than socialist. A long-time member of the British Socialist Workers Party, he testified in

Tommy Sheridan Thomas Sheridan (born 7 March 1964) is a Scottish politician who served as convenor of Solidarity from 2019 to 2021. He previously served as convenor of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) from 1998 to 2004 and as co-convenor of Solidarity from ...

's defence at the Sheridan defamation trial and

HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan ''Her Majesty's Advocate v Thomas Sheridan and Gail Sheridan'' was the 2010 criminal prosecution of Tommy Sheridan, a former Member of the Scottish Parliament and his wife Gail Sheridan for perjury in relation to an earlier civil case called '' S ...

. Gonzalez is also a member of Solidarity – Scotland's Socialist Movement, the party Sheridan formed after the split in the

Scottish Socialist Party The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is a Left-wing politics, left-wing political party campaigning for the establishment of an Scottish independence, independent Socialism, socialist Scottish Scottish republicanism, republic. The party was fou ...

. Dr Francis King (University of East Anglia) wrote: Mike Gonzalez "allows his own (trotskisant) sympathies to intrude too obtrusively into his analysis."

Selected articles/works

''Cuba, Castro and Socialism''
(with Peter Binns) (1980)

with Peter Binns and

Alex Callinicos Alexander Theodore Callinicos (born 24 July 1950) is a Rhodesian-born British political theorist and activist. An adherent of Trotskyism, he is a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and serves as its Internatio ...

) (1980) *Nicaragua : revolution under siege (1985) *Nicaragua : what went wrong? (1990) *Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Chile
''Which way forward for the movement?''
(with

) (2002) *Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution (2004)
''Bolivia: Rising of a People''
2005) *A rebel's guide to Marx (2005)
''The split in the Scottish Socialist Party''
2006) *Hugo Chávez: Socialist for the Twenty-First Century (2014)

(2015) with Marianella Yanes

External links

State of Nature, July 2010

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gonzalez, Mike British Trotskyists Historians of Latin America Latin Americanists British Marxist historians Socialist Workers Party (UK) members 1943 births Living people