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Venezuela - The Embattled Future The September 2010 legislative election in Venezuela, which saw the governing United Socialist Party (PSUV) lose its two-thirds legislative majority, highlighted the gravity of the challenges confronting President Hugo Chavez's "Bolivarian revolution". According to Frederic Clairmont, the polls were a reflection of the contending class forces: the Chavez-led movement for a "socialism of the 21st century" and opponents seeking to entrench a neoliberal market-oriented order. In this intense struggle the forces ranged against the Venezuelan government enjoy the backing of powerful external elements, not least the United States. However, as this book reveals, the US itself is now mired in economic and military debacles which are undermining its imperial drive.
It is this, along with the build up
of Venezuela's productive forces and the undimmed revolutionary fervour
for a more just and equitable society, which is giving hope to the
people of Venezuela and inspiration to progressives everywhere.
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BP: THE UNFINISHED CRIMES AND PLUNDER OF ANGLO-AMERICAN IMPERIALISM The disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is only the latest black mark in the annals of the corporate oil giant British Petroleum. In this booklet Frederic Clairmont looks back at the central, sordid role played by British Imperialism during a pivotal chapter in the history of anti-imperial struggle. It was in Iran ( then Persia ) that the company first struck oil in 1908 and it was the Iranian government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq's that nationalized the company's assets in 1951. However Mohammed Mossadecq's valiant effort to reclaim the nation's natural wealth and secure for Iran genuine economic and political independence met with a devastating counter strike from the company's backers in the corridors of the imperial power.
BP: The Unfinished Crimes and Plunder of
Anglo-American Imperialism is an impassioned account of
this unforgettable episode in 20th century geo-politics'. It is also a
strident indictment of a corporation whose existence has been animated
by the corporate skulduggery, the violence, the rapacity, "soaked in
blood, political intrigue and manipulation of the highest order".
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See here an Italian translated version
And the last review made by Mr.
Bernard Mbeki here
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PROSPECTS OF WAR AND PEACE Will the tensions generated by one of the most devastating crises to have struck global capitalism trigger a major war? This compelling new book explores the possibilities of a major international conflict erupting during this time of economic tumult. Potential flashpoints include the volatile Middle East and escalating trade friction between the struggling US economy and an ascendant China. The author also surveys the historical antecedents of crisis and confrontation, documenting how the great depression of the late 19th century incubated the conditions that would culminate in the First World War. As the capitalist order now once again finds itself wracked by systemic convulsions, the lessons of history presented in this timely book are well worth heeding. GREENSPAN: THE TORMENTS OF CONTRITION Also included in the book is an illuminating essay on the man whose free-market financial policies paved the way for the current economic collapse – Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve. The essay accurately deconstructs his much-talked-about mea culpa before the US Congress amid the raging crisis in October 2008, exposing it as little more than an act of “trivial apologetics” by “a stricken soul”.
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IRAQ: THE NEMESIS OF IMPERIALISM In this powerfull, path-breaking contribution on the nemesis of imperialism in its conquered colonial territory, readers are presented with an incisive analytical work that traces the debacle of the American Gulag on the military, ideological and economic fronts. The enquiry is broken down into two separate segments: the first deals with the evolution of the holocaust perpetrated against a defenceless nation, and one of the greatest recorded crimes against humanity. It is a crime, however, that has imposed an appaling toll on the perpetrators, and which at the same time has flung wide open the floodgates to the sweeping resistance movements on other imperialist fronts world wide. Written in a style that weds stylistic elegance with analytical rigour, the author concludes that the holocaust has become the catalyst for the unravelling of the imperial Gulag. The second part reveals the extent to which the financial structure of the empire is a giant with feet of clay living off borrowed time and borrowed money and is in the throes of drowning in a sea of Himalayan debt.
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DIEN BIEN PHU - A PERSONAL MEMOIR The battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam was one of the most resounding and decisive events in the history of anti-colonialist struggles in the twentieth century and indeed of all times. This booklet portrays how this battle sealed the fate of the once-mighty French empire and served as an inspiration to anti-imperialist resistance forces in the colonial world. The most gripping description of the battle was provided by Vietnamese resistance leader Ho Chi Minh. Turning his khaki pith helmet upside down and with his forefinger circling the rim, he observed: " These are the big mountains up here and at the bottom of this oval-shaped bowl is the valley of Dien Bien Phu. We are up here and the French Expeditionary Corps is down there. They are trapped. There's no exit, and we won't let them get out." The author was a civilian officer of the International Commision for Supervision and Control that was created to ensure the implementation of the Geneva Agreement in the wake of the French colonial debacle on 7 May 1954
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The author explores the social explosion in Bolivia as a part of the wider and outgoing social metamorphosis reshaping the entire region, The victory of the insurgents, as the author insists is not the Promised Land, but it is more the start of an arduously protracted struggle that throws its shadow over Latin America's ruling elite and its foreign backers The uprising was the historical upshot of the most far-reaching and sustained social struggles that raged for months, inconceivable without an ideologically coherent mass organized political base in which the Andean Indians: Aymara and Quechua surged to the centre stage in the Federal capital of La Paz and El Alto. What the author superbly depicts is that the sharply rising political consciousness of the working class and peasantry marches hand-in-hand with the rediscovered ethnic and cultural pride of an entire region. The author perceives the upsurge and convulsions of Indo-America of which the Bolivian insurgency is but one vital component as a continuation of the liberation struggles that began with the defeat of US imperialism and the emergence of a socialist Cuba after 1959.
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BLAIR : THE LIE MACHINE SHARON: FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS Download full booklets contents:
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IRAQ : THE TORMENTS OF EMPIRE The Crumbling of Empire that examined the implications of the debt that permeates every niche of American capitalism. It is the author's central thesis that the horrendous war crimes committed against Iraq will prove to be one of crucial phases in the debacle of imperialism. The author points out that never perhaps in the history of any conquest has the reversal of imperial fortune been so swift as in Iraq. The tremors of fear and chaos are shaking the US caste oligarchy, which has never been more isolated than at present. One of the author's major contributions was to have unravelled the nexus between the role of the United Nations and its agent Sergio de Mello and US imperialism in the occupation of Iraq. The plans of conquest have, however, gone awry, as he concludes, due to the sustained struggle of the Iraqi resistance movement which has become an anti-imperialist catalyst of Promethean force throughout the region and beyond.
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In this gripping pamphlet the author questions the arrogant affirmations of US omnipotence peddled by its corporate manacled press, radio and television media. The essential thrust of this major contribution to the political economy of global power is to describe and analyse the extent to which the wholly corrupt, demoralised and criminalised structure of American capitalism is being battered and swiftly undemined by one of the most tenacious world economic recession of all times. The author investigates the role of the current depression and the crumbling of empire that is inseparable from the swelling debt that permeates every niche of American capitalism and which, in both the short and medium term is unsustainable. A process of indebtedness that could reach a breaking points temming from its current war of conquest in Iraq Download full booklet content (286 Kb)  |
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