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Edited by Jill Hamberg, John L. Hammond, Alfredo Prieto, Peter Roman, and Hobart Spalding

Cuban intellectuals discuss the challenges facing the Revolution today, including governmental and economic reforms, social inequality, poverty,issues of gender, race, and religion, and the expansion of popular participation rice: $10 direct; mail order: send $15 (US) or $20 (outside US) to Socialism and Democracy 411A Highland Ave., #321 omerville, MA 02144

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Contents
Cuban Perspectives on Cuban Socialism

Preface, by The Editors Introduction by Alfredo Prieto 1

Rafael Hernandez, Revolution/Reform and Other Cuban Dilemmas 9

Juan Valdez Paz, Cuba: The Left in Government, 1959 to 2008 31 Emilio Duharte Diaz, Cuba at the Onset of the 21st Century:

Socialism, Democracy and Political Reforms 49

Omar Everleny Perez Villanueva and Pavel Vidal Alejandro,Cuba's Economy: A Current Evaluation and Several Necessary Proposals 71

Mayra Espina, Looking at Cuba Today: Four Assumptions and Six Intertwined Problems 95

Maria del Carmen Zabala Arguelles, Poverty and Vulnerability in Cuba Today 109

Marta Nunez Sarmiento, Cuban Development Strategies and Gender Relations 127

Aurelio Alonso, Religion in Cuba's Socialist Transition 147 Rodrigo Espina Prieto and Pablo Rodríguez Ruiz, Race and
Inequality in Cuba Today 161 Notes on Contributors 179

SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY
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No. 52 (March 2010)

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