IN THE NINETIES, millions of women and men have taken part in mobilisations against I the evils of capitalism and the bureaucratic dictatorships. This reflects the fact that humanity face widening dangers. Ecological, military, social and economic devastation Many more people recognise the barbaric nature of capitalism. In a situation where I the insbility of the social democratic an communist parties to provide socialist solutions is becoming clearer, the task of creating new leaderships remains ahead.
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It includes: • WORLD ORDERS, OLD AND NEW - New Edition In this widely acclaimed study of global politics, Noam Chomsky offers a devastating critique of con"new world order'. It is, he argues, nothing more than an ingenious picce of 'historical engineering; whereby the pretexts for the Eastern Bloc menace - have been deftly replaced by a new set of convenient justi. fications for a Western agenda that remains largely • POWERS AND PROSPECTS, Reflections on Human Nature and the From East Timor to the Middle East. from the nature of democracy to our niace in the natural world, from intellectual politics to the politics of language, Powers and Prospects provides a scathing critique of orthodox views and govern. ment policy, and outlines other paths that can lead to better underslanding an more constructive action. • CLASS WARFARE, Interviews with David Barsamian. divided more clearly than ever before into the haves and the have-nots, the needy and the greedy. Neoliberal doctrines have been reshaped into more ellective instruments of oppression and domination.
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Outlook A monthly marxist review. No 30, Winter 1999. 50p