60 years of revolution: Cuba and the United States

"An apple waiting to fall..." — the US and Cuba in the long run.
"They can win..." — the causes and events of the 1959 revolution.
Land, heath and literacy — the first priorities of the revolution.
"One minute to midnight..." — the Bay of Pigs, the Missile Crisis and the Cold War.
"A campaign of propaganda, economic sabotage and infiltration..." — US subversion in Cuba, Cuban subversion abroad.
"History will absolve me." — the Castro era in perspective.
What happens next? -- Obama, Trump and Díaz-Canel.
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Speakers:

Dr Christina Julios, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London; and City Lit Sociology Tutor.

Dr James Chiriyankandath, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and History/Politics tutor at City Lit.

Ms Zulfia Chynar-Satimbai, works with Amnesty International where she is currently responsible for supporting activist movement in countries in former Soviet space with no Amnesty’s presence.

Dr Mark McQuinn, Convenor of the Aid and Development course on the MSc Development Studies course, Development Studies Department at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and a Politics tutor at City Lit.