Celia Hart | |
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| Born | January 4, 1962 |
| Died | September 7, 2008 |
| Nationality | Cuban |
| Occupation | Physicist and Writer |
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Celia Hart (January 4, 1962[1][2] – September 7, 2008) was a Cuban physicist and writer. Until May 2006, she was a member of the Cuban Communist Party. She was the daughter of two historic leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Haydee Santamaría and Armando Hart.[3]
Overview
Since 2003, many of her writings have been translated into English by CubaNews.[4] Its editor, Walter Lippmann,[5] is also editor of It's never too late to love or rebel, the English-language collection of Hart's writings.[6] According to that book, she has described herself as a 'freelance Trotskyist' since discovering Leon Trotsky's writings when she was studying in East Germany in the 1980s. According to the editors of Socialist Resistance, "at that time she could see at first hand that this so-called 'actually existing socialism' was a society in decadence and without a future."
Hart died in a car accident in Havana on September 7, 2008. Her older brother Abel also died in the same car accident.[7]
References
- ^ "Celia María Hart Santamaría". Cubadebate.
- ^ "Ha muerto la revolucionaria cubana Celia Hart - ForoIU". foroiu.com.
- ^ Infos at internationalviewpoint.org Archived 2006-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "CubaNews". groups.yahoo.com.
- ^ "Walter Lippmann". Walter Lippmann.
- ^ Brooks, Chris (17 June 2006). "Resistance Books: It's never too late to love or rebel".
- ^ Report from Havana official radio (Spanish) Archived 2008-09-11 at the Wayback Machine; AP report (English) Archived 2008-09-12 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Celia Hart Santamaria Internet Archive
- Biographical note
- Selected writings 2003-2007 (in English)
- Selected writings 2003-2005 (in Spanish)
- Blog about Celia's English-language book
- Fidel from my balcony
- Celia Hart Santamaría (1963 – 2008) Obituary by Alan Woods