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In highlighting the little-known role of the Cuban working class during the Special Period, Pedro Ross Leal has produced a book essential to understanding the survival of revolutionary Cuba.--Steve Cushion, active socialist and trade unionist, one-time lecturer in Caribbean Labor History, and adviser to the Museum of Labor History

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Beginning as a young construction worker Cuba, Pedro Ross became a teacher during Cuba's great literacy campaigns of the 1960s, and came to serve three terms as General Secretary of Cuba's labor federation, the CTC (The Workers' Central Union of Cuba)--and in that capacity developed a nationwide series of ""Labor Parliaments"" dedicated to some form of resolution to the economic collapse. Upon retirement, he was appointed Ambassador to Angola, a post he held for several years. In his eighties, he is still active in Cuba's ongoing revolution.

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