Celia Hart

Cuban physicist and writer (1962–2008)

Armando Hart (father)
Haydee Santamaría (mother)

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]^{[failed verification]} 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. Archived from the original on 2017-12-04. Retrieved 2017-12-03.
^ Infos at internationalviewpoint.org Archived 2006-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
^ "CubaNews". groups.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on July 23, 2009. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
^ "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