Vol. 73/No. 3      January 26, 2009

At the book fair Habla Malcolm X will be presented jointly with “Revolution, Internationalism, and Socialism: The Last Year of Malcolm X” by Jack Barnes. The latter is the lead article in issue number 8 of Nueva Internacional, a magazine of Marxist politics and theory. Barnes is the national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States.

Habla Malcolm X was originally published by New York-based Pathfinder Press in 1993.

The panel making the presentation will include Esteban Morales, director emeritus of the University of Havana’s Center for the Study of the United States, who wrote the preface to the Cuban edition of Habla Malcolm X. Also speaking will be Fernando Martínez Heredia, recipient of the 2006 national prize for social sciences. Martínez is also president of the Communist Party of Cuba’s commission to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Independent Party of Color (see Dec. 29, 2008, Militant).

In addition, the panel will include a leader of the Federation of University Students and representatives of both Ciencias Sociales and Pathfinder.

In 1974 Ciencias Sociales published a Spanish translation of Malcolm X’s autobiography, which also included excerpts of several speeches, statements, and interviews by Malcolm originally published by Pathfinder.

The only other speeches by Malcolm that have been published in Cuba since the mid-1970s are those in Malcolm X habla a la juventud (Malcolm X talks to young people), issued in 2002 by Editora Abril, publishing house of the Union of Young Communists.
 
 
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