The decisive event of the late twentieth century has been the collapse of communism and the perceived triumph of capitalism. Written by authors from the First, former Second, and Third Worlds, this book reveals the characteristics and flaws of the late capitalist order. The authors explore the societal polarisation produced by globalization, the crisis of Western ideology, and the soft financial underbelly of globalization that could well bring us to an economic collapse. The perspective of this provocative book goes beyond those of the traditional left and the relativist, anti-historical school of postmodernism to offer an entirely fresh view of the world order.

Globalization and Its Discontents: The Rise of Postmodern Socialisms

Business & Money

Burbach, Roger

Economics

Pluto Press

The book begins with an overview of globalization, showing how wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a transnational elite while ever increasing numbers of people are being marginalised. Institutions such as the World Trade Organisation and the International Monetary Fund are intent upon exercising a new hegemony over individuals as the role of the traditional nation state is transformed. At the centre of this power shift is a group of high-tech robber barons who dominate the Information Age and exploit the technologies of globalization for their own narrow interests. The second part of the book explores the rise of the new grass roots oppositional movements around the world. Manifest in such diverse struggles as the uprising of the Zapatistas in Mexico and the battle of Seattle against the World Trade Organisation, this new postmodern politics is "de-centred" and has little interest in the old ideologies that dominated much of the twentieth century. The final section of the book contextualizes postmodern politics by drawing on contemporary examples. The authors discuss the demise of socialist and proto-socialist experiments in Chile, Grenada, Nicaragua and Cuba and the emergence of postmodern movements in Latin America. The final two chapters take a specific look at the Zapatista movement and its significance for revolutionary struggles around the world.

Globalization and Postmodern Politics

The book begins with an overview of globalization, showing how wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a transnational elite while ever increasing numbers of people are being marginalised. Institutions such as the World Trade Organisation and the International Monetary Fund are intent upon exercising a new hegemony over individuals as the role of the traditional nation state is transformed. At the centre of this power shift is a group of high-tech robber barons who dominate the Information Age and exploit the technologies of globalization for their own narrow interests. The second part of the book explores the rise of the new grass roots oppositional movements around the world. Manifest in such diverse struggles as the uprising of the Zapatistas in Mexico and the battle of Seattle against the World Trade Organisation, this new postmodern politics is "de-centred" and has little interest in the old ideologies that dominated much of the twentieth century. The final section of the book contextualizes postmodern politics by drawing on contemporary examples. The authors discuss the demise of socialist and proto-socialist experiments in Chile, Grenada, Nicaragua and Cuba and the emergence of postmodern movements in Latin America. The final two chapters take a specific look at the Zapatista movement and its significance for revolutionary struggles around the world.

Globalization and Postmodern Politics: From Zapatistas to High-Tech Robber Barons

Examines the problems of agribusiness in the U.S. and Latin America, the expansion of corporate involvement in agriculture, and industry trends for the future

Agribusiness in the Americas: The Political Economy of Corporate Agriculture

Politics & Social Sciences

Flynn, Patricia

Politics & Government

Monthly Review+press

Examines the problems of agribusiness in the U.S. and Latin America, the expansion of corporate involvement in agriculture, and industry trends for the future

Politics of Intervention (Mr/Censa Series on the Americas)

International

Fire in the Americas: Forging a revolutionary agenda

Verso

Book by Burbach, Roger, Nunez, Orlando

Fire in the Americas: Forging a Revolutionary Agenda

Nunez, Orlando

Verso Books

Imperial Overstretch: George W Bush & the Hubris of Empire

Imperial Overstretch: George W. Bush and the Hubris of Empire

Tarbell, Jim

Zed Books

An informative collection of essays by journalists, activists, and political theorists providing the historical, political, and intellectual context for understanding the events and the consequences of September 11 and America’s “War on Terrorism.”
This collection of essays by activists, journalists, historians, and political theorists outlines the U.S. policies that contributed to the tragedy of 9/11, the consequences of the new war, and suggestions for options and alternatives, such as grassroots organizing linked to the antiglobalization movement and the strengthening of institutions like the International Criminal Court and the United Nations.
Editors Roger Burbach and Ben Clarke combed through hundreds of articles and essays written in the months succeeding the attack to select this powerful collection that will provide the reader with an intellectual basis for a vigorous, passionate, and creative resistance to the horrendous policies and practices now undertaken in the name of the “war on terrorism.”
The book includes: Frontline coverage of the Afghan war by London Independent correspondent Robert Fisk.
Excerpts from Professor Marc Herold’s extensive study which documents 3,500 civilian deaths due to U.S. bombings in Afghanistan.
A critical media study of U.S. government attempts at censorship by media critic Normon Solomon.
Systematic analysis of civil rights infringements by constitutional scholar Michael Ratner.
Detailed examinations of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East and Islam by noted researchers Stephen Zunes, Michael T. Klare, John Tirman, and Zoltan Grossman.
Commentaries and analysis that link September 11 to more specific U.S. policies, ranging from the coup in Chile in 1973 to the UN Conference on Racism in 2001 by Linda Burnham, Fran Beal, David Bacon, and others.
Overviews of Caspian Sea and Southwest Asian pipeline politics by Ben Clarke, Ted Rall, and Dimitris Yannopoulos, which bring to light the economic motives behind US military strategy.
Critical historical documents such as Representative Barbara Lee’s singular voice in Congress voting against the granting of virtually unlimited war powers to the Bush administration, and the declaration of Tahmeena Faryal of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan before a committee of the House of Representatives.
Statements of resistance which range from Spanish antiterrorist Judge Baltasar Garzón’s indictment of Western leaders that need be held accountable for inflicting terror on innocent civilians to Wendell Berry, who looks at the basic failure of massive retaliation and violence as methods for resolving conflict.
Strategies and visions for resistance from antiglobalization activists and theorists Susan George, Walden Bello, Roger Burbach, and Starhawk.
Contributors: Tariq Ali, David Bacon, Paul Bass, Frances Beal, Walden Bello, Wendell Berry, Roger Burbach, Linda Burnham, Michel Chossudovsky, Ben Clarke, Jeff Cohen, Robert Fisk, Eduardo Galeano, Judge Baltasar Garzón, Susan George, Zoltan Grossman, Conn Hallinan, Marc Herold, Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Klare, Barbara Lee, Martin Lee, Manning Marable, Aurora Levins Morales, Asra Q. Nomani, Michael Parenti, Margot Pepper, David Potorti, RAWA, Ted Rall, Michael Ratner, Arundhati Roy, Norman Solomon, Starhawk, John Tirman, Dimitris Yannopoulos, Howard Zinn, and Stephen Zunes
Ben Clarke is editor of MediaFile, the journal of media analysis published by San Francisco-based Media Alliance. In 1994 he coedited the first English-language collection of communiqués and interviews from Mexico’s Zapatistas, Voice of Fire.
Roger Burbach is director of Global Alternatives at the Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA) based in Berkeley, California. He has written extensively on globalization, Latin America, and other international issues. His most recent book is Globalization and Postmodern Politics: From Zapatistas to High Tech Robber Barons. With Kevin Danaher he coedited Globalize This! The Battle Against the World Trade Organizations.

September 11 and the U.S. War: Beyond the Curtain of Smoke

History

Clarke, Ben

Americas

City Lights Publishers

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Globalization and Its Discontents: The Rise of Postmodern Socialisms

Globalization and Postmodern Politics

Globalization and Postmodern Politics: From Zapatistas to High-Tech Robber Barons

Agribusiness in the Americas: The Political Economy of Corporate Agriculture

Agribusiness in the Americas: The Political Economy of Corporate Agriculture

Politics of Intervention (Mr/Censa Series on the Americas)

Fire in the Americas: Forging a revolutionary agenda

Fire in the Americas: Forging a Revolutionary Agenda

Imperial Overstretch: George W. Bush and the Hubris of Empire

September 11 and the U.S. War: Beyond the Curtain of Smoke