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» In the May issue of MR, we
published an article by James Petras, written in March, entitled "The U.S.
Offensive in Latin America." The article raised the issue of an impending
military coup in Venezuela, then being actively promoted by Washington, aimed
at replacing the democratically elected president Hugo Chávez with what
the Bush administration had already been publicly calling a “transitional
government” (or, as Petras termed it, a “transitional civic-military
junta”). "Washington," Petras wrote, “is implementing a
civil-military approach to overthrow President Chávez in
Venezuela….U.S. strategy is multiphased and combines media, civic, and
economic attacks with efforts to provoke fissures in the military, all aimed at
encouraging a military coup.” The object of the coup, from Washington's
standpoint, was threefold: to regain control of Venezuela's oil industry which
accounts for 15 percent of U.S. oil imports, to eliminate the indirect support
that Venezuela has been giving to guerrillas in Colombia and to insurgent
forces in Ecuador, and to put an end to Chávez’s attempt to break
away from the imperialistic network—Venezuela's step toward independence.
REVIEW
OF THE MONTH In a speech in 1999, Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford, candidly remarked that “globalization” is another term for U.S. domination.1 Such clarity tends, in itself, to negatively answer the question posed in the title of this talk. How can anyone argue that U.S. domination—or using the less polite term, “U.S. imperialism”—is compatible with social justice? Violence as a
Tool of Order September 11, it is said, has changed everything. However true or not this may be-and I tend to think that it is not very true at all-one thing it certainly should have changed is the loose manner in which the adjective "violent" has been appended to recent antiglobalization protests. Especially for a conference such as this one-conceived in the wake of the Québec City events of last year and designed to shed light on the nature of the challenge posed to capitalist democracies by the new antiglobalization movement-the horrific and deadly terrorist attack on New York and Washington, D.C., and the scale of state violence unleashed-literally from on high-by the war on terrorism, certainly put this loose usage in stark perspective. Coming to the Aid of Women in U.S.
Prisons I first became involved in the criminal justice system in 1976, when I was completing my graduate work in counseling psychology in Albany, New York. The last phase of the program required an internship-750 hours of fieldwork. The professor who taught the course, "Police & the Black Community," pulled me aside after class and told me he wanted to introduce me to a friend of his, Sam MacDowell. Sam was a black community activist who had spent two years in prison on trumped-up charges. The Commissioner of Corrections in New York knew of the injustice and on Sam's release made him head of volunteer services at Coxsackie Prison. We met, we talked, and he invited me to do my internship at his prison. European Labor: Social Dialogue, Social
Pacts, or a Social Europe? For many years the European trade union movement has demanded a "social Europe" from European governments and the European Union(EU). If the integration of Europe were to be successful, it had to be accompanied by a strong social dimension-a people's Europe. This was also the expressed aim of European social democracy-to regain control of capital forces and create a "social Europe" through the European Union. Now, for the first time since the establishment of the European Economic Community (EEC), social democratic, or social democratic dominated governments have been in power throughout the EU for some years. However, a "social Europe" has yet to be realized. CORRESPONDENCE John Bellamy Foster's brilliant review, "Monopoly Capital and the New Globalization" (Monthly Review, January 2002), demonstrates how monopoly capitalism has reached its current crisis, one in which all the contradictions of imperialist domination and the worldwide lack of effective demand are now leading toward the stark choice between a "deadly barbarism or a humane socialism." BOOK
REVIEW A review of Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March by Helen Praeger Young. |
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