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As the United States reels from its military debacle in Iraq, the region it regards as its "backyard", Latin America, is itself rising up in resistance against Washington's imperialist dominance. Spearheading this revolutionary struggle for liberation from imperialism dictates and for justice and human dignity 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 "Bolivian revolution" to end the odious legacy of socio-economic inequality in the oil-rich country. The rise of Cuba and Venezuela as leading actor in the freedom struggle is also examined within the context of American imperialism's wilting power. Battered by alarming levels of indebtedness and a withering industrial capacity, the US economy is on the verge of meltdown. 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 1960s "The Rise and Fall of Economic Liberalism" has been republished with a long new introduction......a blockbuster, physically and mentally..... Clairmont's great strenght is that he, not only itemises all the numerous dimensions of the transnationalisation and internationalisation of the capital, but also integrates them into a functional whole, and assesses their impact on the world of global finance capitalism.
Ted Wheelwright Transnational Center University of Sydney |
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