الأيادي الناعمة

The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution

The social revolution that in 1959 brought down the bloody Batista dictatorship began in the streets of cities like Santiago de Cuba and the Rebel Army’s liberated mountain zones of eastern Cuba. The unprecedented integration of women in the ranks and leadership of this struggle was a true measure of the revolutionary course it has followed to this day. Here, in firsthand accounts by women who helped make it, is the story of that revolution—and “the revolution within.”

The book here

Women in Pre-Revolutionary Cuba

here

The phenomenon of women’s participation in the revolution is a revolution within another revolution. If I were asked what is the most revolutionary thing the revolution is doing, I would answer that it is precisely this—the revolution that is occurring among the women of our country.

FIDEL CASTRO

December 9, 1966

نبغي أن تقوم المقاومة المسلحة على مضض وكملجأ أخير، لأن العنف غير مرغوب فيه بالفطرة بسبب المعاناة الناتجة من دوافعه، ولأنها توفر للأنظمة القمعية مبررات لقمع أكبر، ولأنها توفر لهم فرصة لإرتكاب أعمال وحشية ضد المدنيين ثم تلقي باللوم على معارضيها الإرهابيين، ولأن فرص نجاحها ضئيلة للغاية كما أوضح لنا التاريخ - شاز بوفي- - اللاسلطوية

Guerrilleras in Latin America: Domestic and

International Roles

MARGARET GONZALEZ-PEREZ

Department of History and Political Science, Southeastern Louisiana

University

on line here

This analysis identifies two different categories of guerrilla organizations and the roles 

of women within