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Introduction / Mary-Alice Waters -- [I.] None of the five sought applause, rewards or fame -- Five soldiers, loyal to the ideas of Martí, Che, Fidel, and Raúl / Gerardo Hernández -- They received their distinctions because they didn't seek them / Fidel Castro -- [II.] It's the poor who face the savagery of the US "justice" system / Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, René González -- 1. The reason there are so many prisons in the US is not the amount of crime -- 2. In US prisons they aim to dehumanize you ; in Cuba a prisoner is another human being -- 3. We extended solidarity to others in prison and we received it too -- 4. Solidarity worldwide gave us the strength to resist during the worst times -- 5. We're in a battle of ideas and we intend to win -- [III.] We will take our place in the trenches and be judged by the work we do -- We lived in a microcosm of the outside world / Gerardo Hernández -- No battle waged by revolutionaries ends with what you once did / Antonio Guerrero, René González, Fernando González

Is socialist revolution in the US possible? / Mary Alice-Waters -- 'The class battles aheard are inevitable, their outcome is not. That depends on us' / Mary Alice-Waters -- Prospects for revolution in the US: a necessary debate among working people / Olympia Newton

"Beginning in 1975 an epic battle was waged for the future of southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500 years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa s white supremacist regime, spurred by Washington, had invaded Angola. Its goal: to impose a government beholden to Pretoria and imperialism. Angola s government appealed for help. The response of Cuba s leadership was immediate and decisive. A hard-fought war for freedom ended in 1988 at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, with the crushing defeat of South Africa s army by Angolan, Cuban, and Namibian combatants. This is the story of Cuba s unparalleled contribution to the fight to free Africa from the scourge of apartheid. And how, in the doing, Cuba s socialist revolution also was strengthened."--Back cover