“There will be a victorious revolution in the United States before a victorious counterrevolution in Cuba.” —Fidel Castro, March 1961. That bold assertion remains as timely today as when the words were spoken in 1961, on the eve of Washington’s ignominious defeat at the Bay of Pigs. Cuba and the Coming American Revolution is about the struggles of working people in the imperialist heartland, the youth who are attracted to them, and the example set by the people of Cuba that revolution is not only necessary—it can be made. It is about the class struggle in the United States, where the political capacities and revolutionary potential of workers and farmers are today as utterly discounted by the ruling powers as were those of the Cuban toilers. And just as wrongly.
