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:: Analysis

Violence and Terror: The Ukrainian and Colombian Road to Empire Building

03.20.2014
Introduction: The two paths to 21st century empire-building-via-proxies are illustrated through the violent seizure of power in the Ukraine by a US-backed junta and the electoral gains of the US-backed Colombian war lord, Alvaro Uribe.

Obama’s Ukrainian Power Grab, Sanctions and the Boomerang Effect

03.11.2014
Introduction: In the biggest power grab since George Bush seized Eastern Europe and converted it into a NATO bastion confronting Russia, the Obama regime, together with the EU, financed and organized a violent putsch in the Ukraine which established a puppet regime in Kiev.[1]

New book: “The politics of empire. The US, Israel and the Middle East “

Clarity Press :: 03.09.2014
This book provides a unique conception of US empire building, linking overseas expansion.
Available now in paperback

Recommended book: The New Extractivism

Zed Books :: 02.28.2014
“The New Extractivism. A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century?” Henry Veltmeyer and James Petras. Zed Books.

Oligarchs, Demagogues and Mass Revolts . . . Against Democracy

12.29.2013
Introduction: In ancient Rome, especially during the late Republic, oligarchs resorted to mob violence to block, intimidate, assassinate or drive from power the dominant faction in the Senate.

Christmas versus Xmas: A Political Reading

12.28.2013
Introduction: The transformation of Christmas from a story about a migrant working-class family fleeing state persecution, in the search for a safe haven and receiving support and solidarity to the biggest capitalist commercial bonanza of the year – has far-reaching political consequences.

“Hay que organizar la lucha, crear conciencia y utilizar instituciones locales para crear micro-modelos”

labsindikatua.org / James Petras :: 07.29.2013
[Spanish] “El requisito para cualquier proyecto socialista en el país vasco pasa por la independencia”


Ireland and the Basque Country: Massive Flight (Emigration) or General Strike?

05.30.2013
Introduction: Many billions of Euros are being extracted from Europe’s vassal-debtor nations – Spain, Greece, Portugal and Ireland –and transferred to the creditor banks, financial speculators and swindlers located in the City of London, Wall Street, Geneva and Frankfort.

[Video in Spanish] James Petras: “La Huelga General es el Parlamento de la calle”

LAB International :: 05.20.2013
En una rueda de prensa realizada hoy en Iruñea [Euskal Herria] junto con la Secretaria General de LAB, Ainhoa Etxaide, el prestigioso intelectual estadounidense ha opinado que la Huelga General del 30 de mayo va a mostrar que “hay grandes colectividades que no están de acuerdo ni con Bruselas ni con los administradores que gestionan las políticas de Bruselas”.

The Two Faces of Class Struggle: The Motor Force for Historical Regression or Advance

04.09.2013
One of the most important and yet most neglected determinants of the outcomes of the economic crisis and resultant deepening of social inequalities and immiseration is the ‘class struggle’. In one of his most pithy metaphors, Karl Marx referred to class struggle as ‘the motor force of history’.

The Greek Catastrophe: Three Generations of Greek Workers

03.03.2013
Introduction: As Greece enters the sixth year of Europe’s worst economic depression, with 30% of its labor force unemployed and over 52% of its youth jobless, the entire social fabric is unraveling; a suicide rate are skyrocketing and close to 80% of the population is downwardly mobile.

Twenty-First Century Imperialism: Militarism, Collaborators And Popular Resistance

02.17.2013
Introduction: The configuration of 21st century imperialism combines patterns of exploitation from the past as well as new features which are essential to understanding the contemporary forms of plunder, pillage and mass impoverishment. In this paper we will highlight the relatively new forms of imperial exploitation, reflecting the rise and consolidation of an international ruling class, the centrality of military power, large scale long-term criminality as a key component of the process of capital accumulation, the centrality of domestic collaborator classes and political elites in sustaining the US – EU empire and the new forms of class and anti-imperialist struggles.

“Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization

12.03.2012
Introduction: By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial countries have seized and pillaged the resources of mineral-rich and agriculturally productive countries, in consort with multi-national corporations.

Entrevista en el programa “Voces del periodista” de ABC Radio, México

Celeste Sáenz de Miera :: 11.17.2012
Interview with mexican ABC Radio - Audio in Spanish

London: Parasites’ Paradise (Or the Best Criminal Sanctuary Money Can Buy)

10.10.2012
Introduction: Whenever financial swindlers prosper at the expense of investors or a bank jiggers interest rates to bugger their competitors or tax evaders flee fiscal crises or rent gouging petrol monarchies recycle profits or oligarchs pillage economies and drive millions to drink, drugs and destitution they find a suitable secure sanctuary in London.

Notes on Globalization and Class Struggle: Latin America, Europe and Asia

08.19.2012
Introduction: The principle axis of the class struggle are found in Latin America, Europe and Asia, each following its own trajectory.

Class Struggle in Present Day Globalized Capitalism

James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer :: 08.17.2012
Introduction: An examination of the social science scholarship over the past 60 years reveals few, if any, publications discussing ‘the class struggle’ in anything but theoretical expositions.

The Great Transformation: From the Welfare State to the Imperial Police State

07.13.2012
Introduction: The United States has experienced the biggest political upheaval in its recent history: the transformation of a burgeoning welfare state into a rapidly expanding, highly intrusive and deeply entrenched police state, linked to the most developed technological innovations.

The Western Welfare State: Its Rise and Demise and the Soviet Bloc

07.04.2012
Introduction: One of the most striking socio-economic features of the past two decades is the reversal of the previous half-century of welfare legislation in Europe and North America. Unprecedented cuts in social services, severance pay, public employment, pensions, health programs, educational stipends, vacation time, and job security are matched by increases in tuition, regressive taxation, and the age of retirement as well as increased inequalities, job insecurity and workplace speed-up.

Greece: What Can be Done?

06.16.2012
Introduction: Greece faces the unenviable choice between accepting the terms of “the Troika” and facing the continuation and deepening of a socio-economic crises, which includes five years of negative growth, over 23% unemployment, an astronomical rise in poverty (from less than 15% to over 40%) and mounting suicides, or a rejection of the “memorandum”, and a likely cut-off of Eurozone funding and capital markets with virtually few reserves to cover salaries, pensions or public services.

The Politics of Language and the Language of Political Regression

05.18.2012
Capitalism and its defenders maintain dominance through the ‘material resources’ at their command, especially the state apparatus, and their productive, financial and commercial enterprises, as well as through the manipulation of popular consciousness via ideologues, journalists, academics and publicists who fabricate the arguments and the language to frame the issues of the day.

Capitalism in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: From the “Golden” to the Dark Ages of Capitalism

04.23.2012
Introduction: The economic, political and social outlook for the second decade of the 21st century is profoundly negative. The almost universal consensus, even among mainstream orthodox economists, is pessimistic regarding the world economy.

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