Perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, […]

This Open Media Pamphlet Series edition (59 pp.) features edited transcripts from Eqbal Ahmad’s lecture at the University of Colorado, October 12, 1998 and excerpts from David Barsamian’s extensive interviews with Eqbal. It is an excellent primer on the perspectives of Eqbal. Edward Said called him “perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of […]

In The Democracy Fix, the president of the American Constitution Society argues for progressives to focus on winning by learning from the Right that policy follows power, not the other way around. Caroline Fredrickson points to judicial elections, state power, election law and other policy areas that change the rules of the game.  Fredrickson shows […]

David Barsamian interviews Arundhati Roy. South End Press, 2004; 180 pages. Out of Print. Collector’s item. A skillful interviewer can reveal aspects of a writer’s voice in simple yet telling ways. As a novelist, Arundhati Roy is known for her lush language and intricate structure. As a political essayist, her prose is searching and fierce. […]