Guantanamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution

Guantánamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantánamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba, it is a town, and our military occupation there has required more than soldiers and sailors—it has required workers. This revealing history of the women and men who worked on the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay tells the story of U.S.—Cuban relations from a new perspective, and at the same time, shows how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution trans...