Subscribers who recall the debate which took place on H-LATAM last year over the politics and fate of Julio Antonio Mella might be interested in the latest edition of the journal Revolutionary History. Based on my doctoral thesis 'Dissident Cuban Communism: The Case of Trotskyism, 1932-65', the book mostly details the rise and fall of what at one stage was probably the largest Left Opposition group outside the USSR. There is a chapter devoted to the case JA Mella, and a couple of interviews with Trotskyists who worked closely with Che in Cuba in the 1960s. They are quite revealing about his changing attitudes to that current and certainly add something to the four major biographies of Che which largely skipped over this subject.

More about my work and the book can be found on my Web page:
http://atlas.cs.york.ac.uk/~gat100
To get a taste of my arguments, you could specifically look at the page containing a couple of biographical sketches of two dissident Cuban communists - Sandalio Junco and Gaston Medina:
http://atlas.cs.york.ac.uk/~gat100/sketches.html

You could also visit the Revolutionary History website at: http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk
Best wishes, Gary Tennant.