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Mike Gonzalez (historian)

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Mike Gonzalez (born 1943) is a British historian and literary critic who was Professor of Latin American Studies in the Hispanics Department of the University of Glasgow.[1]

He has written widely on Latin America, especially Cuba and the Cuban Revolution 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's defence at the Sheridan defamation trial and HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan. Gonzalez is also a member of Solidarity – Scotland's Socialist Movement, the party Sheridan formed after the split in the Scottish Socialist Party.

Dr Francis King (University of East Anglia) wrote: Mike Gonzalez "allows his own (trotskisant) sympathies to intrude too obtrusively into his analysis."[2]

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  1. ^ From the Hispanic Studies section of the Glasgow University website.
  2. ^ King, Francis (2017). "Stephen A. Smith, ed., the Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism; Silvio Pons, the Global Revolution: A History of International Communism 1917–1991". European History Quarterly. 47 (2): 388–391. doi:10.1177/0265691417695979mm. S2CID 197685129.