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 race; as well as the stu ...

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

University of Glasgow , image = UofG Coat of Arms.png , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms Flag , latin_name = Universitas Glasguensis , motto = la, Via, Veritas, Vita , ...

. He has written widely on Latin America, especially

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

and the

Cuban Revolution The Cuban Revolution ( es, Revolución Cubana) was carried out after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which placed Fulgencio Batista as head of state and the failed mass strike in opposition that followed. After failing to contest Batista in cou ...

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 Tommy Sheridan (born 7 March 1966) 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 2 ...

'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 the earlier civil case ''Sheridan ...

. Gonzalez is also a member of

Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement Solidarity – Scotland's Socialist Movement was a political party in Scotland. The party launched on 3 September 2006, founded by two former Scottish Socialist Party MSPs, Tommy Sheridan and Rosemary Byrne, in the aftermath of Sheridan's libel ...

, the party Sheridan formed after the split in the

Scottish Socialist Party The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP; gd, Pàrtaidh Sòisealach na h-Alba; sco, Scots Socialist Pairtie) is a left-wing political party campaigning for the establishment of an independent socialist Scotland. The party was founded in 1998. It c ...

. 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 Trotskyists