The December 1989 uprising in Venezuela’s capital-city of Caracas – known as the caracazo – against the free-market reforms of then president Carlos A. Pérez marked the beginnings of a two-decade wave of militant popular mobilizations against neoliberalism across Latin America.
Between April 9 and June 19, 2009, what started as a protest demanding attention to basic material and political rights by the most marginalized sectors of Peruvian society turned into a powerful and widespread indigenous-popular uprising.
“Because Zanón is an example of work and freedom”1
Samir Amin, The World We Wish To See: Revolutionary Objectives in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2008).
This book is an important reaffirmation of the necessity for revolution and socialism from one of the left’s preeminent critics of global capitalism. The importance of this manifesto is twofold. Not only does it challenge hegemonic notions that ‘there is no alternative’ to capitalism, it also challenges the left to once again put power at the center of its political project.
Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa eds, Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology Of Contemporary Arab American Fiction (University of Arkansas Press, 2009).
Richard Duffee, The Slow News of Need, Vol. 1 (Stamford, CT: Yuganta Press, 2008).
Time Against Time
Stanley Aronowitz, Against Schooling – Towards an Education That Matters (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2008).
The American system of public education was once envied worldwide. While there were a number of critical factors which led to the ascendancy of the US in the twentieth century, it was often argued that America’s early commitment to a relatively egalitarian system of public education was crucial to its leadership position.
George Yancy, Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).
Randy Martin, An Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007).