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As the United States reels from its military debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, the region it regards as its "backyard", Latin America, is itself rising up in resistance against the stranglehold of US imperial dominance. Spearheading this revolutionary struggle for liberation from imperialism are the people of Cuba and Venezuela. In this powerful new book, Frederic Clairmont explores the transformation of Cuba from US colonial outpost into a beacon of socialist freedom in Americas. He then charts the course taken in Venezuela under the inspired leadership of President Hugo Chavez, who is forging ahead with a "Bolivarian revolution" to end the odious legacy of socio-economic inequality in the oil-rich country. The rise of Cuba and Venezuela as leading actors in the freedom struggle are also examined within the context of American imperialism's wilting power. Against this backdrop of economic and political ferment, Cuba and Venezuela have emerged, the author declares, as "the most formidable nemeses ever faced by the now crumbling forces of empire".
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FREDERIC CLAIRMONT's classic of the "The Rise and Fall of Economic Liberalism" has been republished with a long new introduction......a blockbuster, physically and mentally..... His great strenght is that he, not only itemises all the numerous dimensions of the transnationalisation and internationalisation of capital, but also integrates them into a functional whole, and assesses their impact on the crisis - stricken world of global finance capitalism.
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