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Paperback. Zustand: As New. Reprint. Contents 1. Events and situations. 2. On Marxist thought. 3. On the need for theory. 4. The revolutionary crisis. 5. French society in 1968. 6. Three tendencies. 7. Contestation spontaneity violence. 8. Strategies for outflanking and the outflanking of strategies. 9. On dual power. 10. On self management. 11. The world situation. 12. Urban phenomena. 13. Mutation. 14. Alternative or Alibi. 15. Old and new contradictions theses and hypotheses. 16. The twofold status of knowledge (social and theoretical). Events belie forecasts the author begins and the French events of the spring of 1968 laid waste the forecasts of sociologists and political scientists throughout the world. In this remarkable analysis Henri Lefebvre took hold of both the immediate importance and the long range significance of the movement which began at Nanterre where he taught sociology at the University of Paris. Professor Lefebvre rehearses for the reader the full sweep of Marxist thinking about social change and investigates carefully and critically the work of Herbert Marcuse in the light of the French explosion. His thought ranges far beyond the streets of Paris taking as the starting point issues raised by the radical student movement and ultimately presenting a significant new theory about the nature of power and politics under condition of modern capitalism. 158 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Education sector in Punjab. 3. Health Services in Punjab. 4. Agricultural Extension Services in Punjab. 5. Summary conclusions and policy recommendations. Bibliography. The book is a gripping account of transformation 136 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Feasibility of another modernity. 2. Art of resistance in the era of cultural globalization. 3. Transcending limiting identities striving for an inclusive world. References. Index. Enough has already been said and written about modernity globalization and identity. What however distinguishes the book is its reflexivity the politico ethical questions in raises and the way it makes us confront our own ambiguities and life experiences. It uses contemporary sociological literature negotiates with diverse sources of creative imagination and remains immensely sensitive to the specificity of our own social reality the trajectory of Indian modernity the dynamics of cultural memory and globalization and the dialectic of identity politics. With its argumentative style it pleads for a humane/reflexive modernity narrates the possibility of a profound art of resistance against asymmetrical globalization and strives for a more open and dialogic society that inspires one to overcome segmented identities. Here is a book that needs to be read by sociologists social activists and all those who celebrate criticality and reflexivity. 175 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Foreword. Preface. Introduction China and socialism. 1. China's rise to model status. 2. China's economic transformation. 3. Contradictions of China's transformation domestic. 4. Contradictions of China's transformation international. 5. China and socialism conclusion. Appendix Tables. Notes. Index. The fastest growing economy in the world today is that of China. For many on the left the Chinese economy seems to provide an alternative model of development to that of neoliberal globalization. Although it is a disputed question whether the Chinese economy can be still described as socialist there is no doubting the importance for the global project of socialism of accurately interpreting and soberly assessing its real prospects. Hart Landsberg and Burkett's China and Socialism argues that market reforms in China are leading inexorably toward a capitalist and foreign dominated development path with enormous social and political costs both domestically and internationally. The rapid economic growth that accompanied these market reforms have not been due to efficiency gains but rather to deliberate erosion of the infrastructure that made possible a remarkable degree of equality. The transition to the market has been based on rising unemployment intensified exploitation declining health and education services exploding government debt and unstable prices. At the same time China's economic transformation has intensified the contradictions of capitalist development in other countries especially in East Asia. Far from being a model that is replicable in other third world countries China today is a reminder of the need for socialism to be built from the grassroots up through class struggle and international solidarity. 159 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. Reprint. Contents Chronology. Introduction to the Indian edition by Lal Khan. 1. Revolution and counter revolution in Venezuela. 2. Venezuela the revolution at the point of no return. 3. The Venezuelan revolution in danger. 4. Venezuela between revolution and counter revolution. 5. Encounters with Hugo Chavez. 6. Marxists and the Venezuelan Revolution. 7. Foxes and grapes sectarian stupidity and the Venezuelan Revolution. 8. The targets are Venezuela and Cuba new intrigues of US imperialism. 9. Theses on revolution and counter Revolution in Venezuela. 10. As August 15 approaches why we are fighting for a No next Sunday. 11. The recall referendum in Venezuela a crushing blow to the counter revolution. 12. The nationalisation of Venepal what does it signify. 13. Chavez capitalism must be transcended. 14. The agrarian revolution revolutionary realism versus reformist Utopia. Glossary/names. This book by Alan Woods is essential reading for all those who want to understand what is happening in Venezuela today. But this is no mere description of events. It is a powerful Marxist analysis of the Venezuelan Revolution its weakness and strengths its contradictions and unique characteristics. The book was not written with hindsight. Every chapter beginning with the coup of April 2002 was written as the events themselves were unfolding and traces the winding course of the revolution. They reflect the immediacy and lightening speed of events happening before our very eyes. Today Latin America is in the Vanguard of world revolutionary developments and within the Latin American continent Venezuela stands out sharply as the country most affected by this process. It would be no exaggeration to say that Venezuela is now the key to the international situation. It therefore follows that the class conscious workers and youth in Britain and elsewhere must closely follow the events in Venezuela and assist the revolution with every means possible. Alan Woods has been a consistent champion of the Venezuelan Revolution since its inception. He helped initiate the hands off Venezuela Campaign. He has held personal discussions with President Hugo Chavez which are recounted in this book. The author concludes that the Venezuelan Revolution cannot stop half way and holds up the perspective of a victorious socialist transformation. Only by expropriating the power of the oligarchy can it succeed and spread to the rest of the continent. This is no foreign idea but in essence is the vision of Simon Bolivar in the context of the 21 century of the creation of a democratic socialist federation of Latin America. 188 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. I. U.S. Imperialism Has a Long History 1. Kipling the White Man's Burden and U.S. imperialism/John Bellamy Foster Harry Magdoff and Robert W. McChesney. 2. Imperial ambition Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian. 3. The grid of history cowboys and Indians/Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. 4. U.S. weakness and the struggle for hegemony/Immanuel Wallerstein. II. The Geopolitics and Political Economy of U.S. Imperialism 5. The new geopolitics/Michael Klare. 6. U.S. hegemony today/Peter Gowan. 7. The global minotaur/Joseph Halevi and Yanis Varoufakis. 8. The two wings of the eagle/William K. Tabb. III. Resistance 9. Confronting the empire/Samir Amin. 10. The parameters of resistance/Amiya Kumar Bagchi. 11. Can U.S. workers embrace anti imperialism/Bill Fletcher. 12. Prospects for anti imperialism coming to terms with our own bourgeoisie/Sam Gindin. 13. Notes on the Antiwar Movement/Barbara Epstein. 14. Construction of an enemy/Eleanor Stein. 15. Homeland imperialism fear and resistance/Bernardine Dohrn. 16. The new age of imperialism/John Bellamy Foster. Contributors. Notes. Index. This volume examines the nature and prospects of the U.S. Imperial Project currently being given shape by war and occupation in the middle east. Immanuel Wallerstein Peter Gowan and other discuss the dynamics at work behind the War on Tourism. Their analyses locate recent developments within a longer historical arc and set out the central questions for research and debate is U.S. unilateralism and militarism a sign of the increasing strength of the world's only remaining superpower. Or a desperate response to the erosion of the strategy it developed for ensuring its leadership over the advanced capitalist world during the Cold War. Essays by Barbara Epstein Amiya Kumar Bagchi and others also examine the prospects for the resistance to imperialism in the United States and globally. 192 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents I. Introduction What is the postmodern agenda/Ellen Meiksins Wood. II. Postmodernism and intellectuals 1. Where do postmodernists come from/Terry Eagleton. 2. Language history and class struggle/David McNally. 3. The politics of cultural studies/Francis Mulhern. 4. Culture nationalism and the role of intellectuals/Aijaz Ahmad. 5. Old positions/new necessities history class and Marxist metanarrative/Bryan D. Palmer. 6. Against social De(con)struction of science cautionary tales from the third world/Meera Nanda. III. Postmodernism and movements 1. Issues of class and culture/Aijaz Ahmad. 2. The mirror of race postmodernism and the celebration of difference/Kenan Malik. 3. Postmodernism feminism and Marx notes from the Abyss/Carol A. Stabile. 4. Marx and the environment/John Bellamy Foster. 5. Northern intellectuals and the EZLN/Daniel Nugent. 6. Five theses on actually existing Marxism/Fredric Jameson. IV. Afterword 1. In defense of history/John Bellamy Foster. 204 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. Reprint. Contents Acknowledgements. 1. Considering fundamentalism/Carol Schick JoAnn Jaffe and Ailsa M. Watkinson. 2. Cultural and ethnic fundamentalism identity liberation and oppression/Joyce A. Green. 3. Real Indians cultural revitalization and fundamentalism in aboriginal education/Verna St. Denis. 4. Jewish fundamentalisms and a critical politics of identity the makings of a post Zionist discourse/Jackie Kuikman. 5. Islamic fundamentalism(s) more than a pejorative epithet/F. Volker Greifenhagen. 6. Sifting Islam from fundamentalism Muslim feminists struggle/Nayyar S. Javed. 7. Lean and mean hegemonic masculinity as fundamentalism/Murray Knuttila. 8. With US or with the terrorists American Hyperpatriotism as fundamentalism/JoAnn Jaffe. 9. The market will make it right neoliberalism as market fundamentalism/Don Mitchell. 10. Equality rights and re privatized public services religious fundamentalism meets the charter/Ailsa M. Watkinson. 11. Slippery and unstable school and human rights/Carol Schick. Index. Increasingly discussions about fundamentalism lack precision and leave the implications of fundamentalist practices unexamined. How can we use the term so that it has analytical meaning and is not merely a label applied by self proclaimed non fundamentalists. In contesting fundamentalism the authors expand the term fundamentalism to include an array of ideological positions in social and cultural movements. Chapters critically investigate the nature of fundamentalism in such diverse areas as economics nationalism aboriginal politics and ethnic gender and religious studies. Examining these areas through the application of a fundamentalist lens presents them in a different light and with greater clarity. Understanding fundamentalism is a necessary undertaking for contesting its claims. These essays invite a multidimensional understanding of who or what may be called fundamentalist and the dilemmas that this naming creates. 176 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. 272 pages. Cunningham went to Kinnaur to report on Zorawar Singh's military actions in Ladakh and other areas.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Introduction. I. Toward a Historical Sociology of Gender 1. Rethinking women's oppression. 2. Gender and the state. 3. Gender and class in U.S. labor history. II. Women and Social Policy 4. The feminization of poverty comparable worth and feminist political discourse. 5. The politics of welfare reform. 6. Welfare reform reframing the debate. III. New Politics of the Family 7. Socialist feminism versus communitarian conservatism. 8. Democracy community and care. IV. Class Politics and Feminist Strategy 9. Meeting the challenge of the political right. 10. The best of times the worst of times U.S. feminism today. Conclusion Intersections locations and capitalist class relations intersectionality from a Marxist perspective. Index. Is there a future for feminism. The debate over the direction and politics of the women's movement has been joined recently by post feminists and anti feminists in addition to competing feminist perspectives. In Women and the Politics of Class Johanna Brenner offers a distinctive view arguing for a strategic turn in feminist politics toward coalitions centered on the interests of working class women. Women and the Politics of Class engages many crucial contemporary feminist issues abortion reproductive technology comparable worth the impoverishment of women the crisis in care giving and the shedding of the social safety net through welfare reform and budget cuts. These problems Brenner argues must be set in the political and economic context of a state and society dominated by the imperatives of capital accumulation. Drawing on historical exploration of the labor movement and working class politics Brenner provides a fresh materialist approach to one of the most important issues of feminist theory today the intersection of race nationality gender sexuality and class. 330 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents 1. The globalization decade an introduction/Alan Zuege Martijn Konings Colin Leys and Leo Panitch. 2. Globalization and the state/Leo Panitch. 3. Capitalism and the nation state in the dog days of the twentieth century/Manfred Bienefeld. 4. In defence of capital controls/James Crotty and Gerald Epstein. 5. A world market of opportunities capitalist obstacles and left economic policy/Gregory Albo. 6. Taking globalization seriously/Hugo Radice. 7. Globalization and the executive committee reflections on the contemporary capitalist state/Constantine Tsoukalas. 8. Contradictions of shareholder capitalism downsizing jobs enlisting savings destabilizing families/Wally Seccombe. 9. Material world the myth of the weightless economy/Ursula Huws. 10. The nature and contradictions of neoliberalism/Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy. 11. The growth obsession/Elmar Altvater. 12. The American campaign for global sovereignty/Peter Gowan. Neoliberal globalization was finally consolidated in the 1990s. Understanding how it works and what it threatens for the future has become a crucial necessity not only in the improvised South but also in the affluent North. The pathbreaking analyses collected in this book written as the globalization decade unfolded grasp the radical nature of globalization in a way still unmatched by orthodox commentaries not as a mere series of reforms but as a worldwide transformation of all aspects of life to conform with capitalism's ruthless logic. Cutting across academic disciplines the essays bring out the inter connectedness of globalization's multiple facets The world market in capital and the ascendancy of a new financial order New geographic and sectoral patterns of production founded on fast changing technologies The changing patterns of class including the implication of workers in the destruction of their own jobs as their pension funds are reinvested The inequalities and socially catastrophic crises inherent in the neoliberal economic programme The transformation of states into active agents involved in managing the globalization process at home and internationally and The futility of third way responses as would be progressive alternatives. The Globalization Decade challenges conventional wisdom both right and left. It is not a blueprint for an alternative world order but it shows the principles on which viable alternatives must be based the restoration of democratic control over investment and a radically new respect for the limits of the environment. 327 pp.

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