Mike Gonzalez (historian)

For other people with 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, especially Cuba and the Cuban Revolution 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's defence at the Sheridan defamation trial and HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan. Gonzalez is also a member of Solidarity – Scotland's Socialist Movement, the party Sheridan formed after the split in the Scottish Socialist Party.

Dr Francis King (University of East Anglia) wrote: Mike Gonzalez "allows his own (trotskisant) sympathies to intrude too obtrusively into his analysis."^[2]

Selected articles/works

• Cuba, Castro and Socialism (with Peter Binns) (1980)
• Cuba, socialism and the third world with Peter Binns and Alex Callinicos) (1980)
• Nicaragua : revolution under siege (1985)
• Nicaragua : what went wrong? (1990)
• Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Chile
• Which way forward for the movement? (with Alex Callinicos) (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)
• The Last Drop: The Politics of Water (2015) with Marianella Yanes

External links

• Mike Gonzalez Internet Archive
• 'Revolution Stalled? Venezuela and Bolivia: An Interview with Mike Gonzalez' State of Nature, July 2010