  :Tariq Ali, a British left-wing activist and journalist, is not an academic specialist in Cuban studies, so I'm afraid that we probably wouldn't treat his book as a particularly reliable source here on Wikipedia. There are far more accurate published works on the topic of Castro and his administration, and it is these which we have cited in this article; admittedly these have been written and published within a bourgeoisie society that – if one chooses to adopt a Marxist perspective – is likely to mean that they express a particularly anti-Castro and anti-communist view. However, I and others have gone to great lengths to ensure that this particular article does not carry a bias, thereby fitting with Wikipedia's NPOV policy.   