Celia Hart (January 4, 1962 – September 7, 2008) was a

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n physicist and writer. Until May 2006, she was a member of the

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. She was the daughter of two historic leaders of the

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, Haydee Santamaría and

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Overview

Since 2003, many of her writings have been translated into

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by '' CubaNews''. Its editor, Walter Lippmann, is also editor of ''It's never too late to love or rebel'', the English-language collection of Hart's writings. According to that book, she has described herself as a 'freelance

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' since discovering

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's writings when she was studying in

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in the 1980s. According to the editors of

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, "at that time she could see at first hand that this so-called 'actually existing socialism' was a society in decadence and without a future." Hart died in a car accident in

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on September 7, 2008. Her older brother Abel also died in the same car accident.Report from Havana official radio (Spanish)

AP report (English)

References

External links

(in English)
Selected writings 2003-2005
(in Spanish)

Obituary by Alan Woods

at the Marxist Internet Archive 1962 births 2008 deaths Cuban Trotskyists Cuban people of American descent Road incident deaths in Cuba {{Cuba-scientist-stub