Books by James Petras

This book is about the opposition to neoliberalism-a significant political movement that has influence, particularly among the popular classes. It analyzes the emergence of a new Left in Latin America grounded in the new social forces in the countryside and in the urban slums.

Based on extended interviews at the Culipran fundo in Chile with peasants who recount in their own terms their political evolution, this is an in-depth study of peasants in social and political action.

Two of the left's most important academics analyze the politics and economics of US imperialism's relationship with Latin America.

A renewed call for radical change and systemic transformation in the face of an emerging, new form of capitalist imperialism

We live in a time of dynamic, but generally regressive regime change - a period in which major political transformations and a rollback of a half-century of legislation are accelerated under conditions of a prolonged and deepening economic crisis and a worldwide offensive against the citizenry and the working class.

Offering a systematic, critical analysis of the presidency of Fernando Cardoso, this ambitious case study assesses government policies within the framework of the new economic model of globalization and structural adjustment.

This study presents a critical analysis of US empire-building, dirty money and political power. It features a discussion of neo-mercantilism as a new mode of empire and examines the role of movements of unemployed and landless peasants in key Third World countries.

Lays out an analysis of the dynamics and contradictions of capitalism in the twenty-first century which are traced out in developments across the world - in the Arab Spring of North Africa and the Middle East, in Cuba and elsewhere in Latin America, in the United States, and in Asia.

"The Left Strikes Back addresses the neglected topic of popular resistance to capital globalization and neoliberal polices, and considers the future of the revolutionary left in this region. James Pet"

An important and well-researched critique of American domestic policy, contending that the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations have all focused on global leadership to the detriment of pressing social and economic problems at home.

Perhaps no word today is used and misused more than globalization. It generally serves to refer to worldwide epoch-defining changes in the organization of societies, economies and politics. But as Petras and Veltmeyer demonstrate, the term globalization obscures much more than it reveals.

A contribution to the debate around Hardt & Negri's 'Empire without Imperialism'.

The 2003 electoral victory of Lucio Gutierrez in Ecuador was met with the same sense of optimism that greeted the election of Ignacio 'Lula' da Silva in Brazil, and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. Gutierrez's victory was viewed as a major advance for the country in its 500 year-long struggle for freedom and democracy. *BR**BR*In Bolivia, Evo Morales similarly came within an electoral whisker of achieving state power in 2002, and in 2003 Nestor Kirchner became President of Argentina. *BR**BR*Many journalists , academics and politicians speak of a "e;left-turn"e; in Latin America, characterizing these regimes as "e;center -left"e;. They came to power on the promise of delivering a fundamental change of direction that would steer their countries away from neo-liberal economic policies, and towards greater social equity. Their success awakened major hopes on the Left for a new dawn in Latin American politics. *BR**BR*This book challenges these assumptions. It critically examines their agreements with the IMF, their social and economic policies, and the economic ties of leading policy makers, as well as the beneficiaries and losers under these regimes. *BR**BR*Latin America is unique in that it has experienced two decades of popular resistance to neo-liberal policies: each of the four countries examined here has a rich history of diverse indigenous and working class movements coming together to promote radical political change. *BR**BR*The authors examine the political dynamics between the state and its agenda, and the strategy of mass mobilisation taken by the mass movements. They explore the intensifying conflicts between the movements and their former allies in the state.