Description
Essays on acts of US imperialism, from the 1953 Iran coup to the 2019 ouster of Evo Morales
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair--a lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call of butchers and assassins; of plots against people's movements and governments; of the assassinations of socialists, Marxists, communists all over the Third World by the country where liberty is a statue. Despite all this, Washington Bullets is a book about possibilities, about hope, about genuine heroes. One such is Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso--also assassinated--who said: 'You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.' Washington Bullets is a book infused with this madness, the madness that dares to invent the future.Author: Vijay Prashad
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 09/22/2020
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9781583679067
ISBN10: 1583679065
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- Political Science | Essays
- Political Science | International Relations | General
About the Author
Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-Lived Third World, and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His most recent book is Red Star Over the Third World. He writes regularly for Frontline, The Hindu, Alternet, and BirGun. He is Chief Editor at LeftWord Books