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Attacking the Poor

A close reading of the World Bank’s annual Development Reports through the nineties yields a step-by-step programme for world capitalist expansion. The ‘war on poverty’ as systematic assault on the poor.

Brazil: The Long March to the New Republic

“At the end of 1989, Brazilians voted in direct presidential elections for the first time since the military seized power in 1964. After an inconclusive first round, victory in the second went to Fernando Collor, an independent conservative, by a small margin over Luis Inacio da Silva, universally . . .” read more

Resurgent Democracy: Threat and Promise

“In ‘ “Resurgent Democracy”: Rhetoric and Reality’, nlr 154, Edward Herman and James Petras condemn us support for new democracies in South and Central America as hypocritical and opportunist. They also point out the wilful confusion involved in deliberately associating genuine democratization in South America with a . . .” read more