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CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Jenny Pearce, Under the Eagle: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean (Latin America Bureau, 1981). 2.50, paper, 273 pgs. Designed as a practical...

...Stephens fills what she views as a gap in the body of literature on worker participation by providing an empirically-based approach that considers the various models in their wider social contexts...
...Rick Kunnes, ed., El Salvador: No Middle Ground (New American Movement, 1981...
...Data Center, 464 19th Street, Oakland, CA 94612...
...Designed as a practical resource for trade unionists, church groups and solidarity activists, Under the Eagle pulls together an immense amount of dispersed materials into a welcome single volume...
...18.75, cloth, 346 pgs...
...Write for price, paper, 176 pgs...
...An impressive effort to bring together the best on the subject in one rather weighty volume...
...Designed as a college text, this book presents migration theory and several standard models...
...Stephen Abrecht and Michael Locker, eds., CDE Stock Ownership Directory No...
...Included are stastics on health and the economy...
...5. (Data Center, 464 19th Street, Oakland, CA 94612...
...Data Center, Reagan and El Salvador-Roots of War (Data Center, 1981...
...For the third world, this model would not be based on import substitution as in the past, but on production for export in key sectors, e.g...
...and Jim Stephens on land reform...
...CAMINO...
...64 for four volumes, paper, 604 pgs...
...The author manages to synthesize a tremendous amount of material, primarily from Central American sources, to trace the roots of revolution in El Salvador...
...Principal stockholders and their share holdings are provided for the country's largest companies-accounting for over three-fourths of all manufacturing revenues-as determined by Fortune magazine in May 1980...
...16.95, cloth, 320 pgs...
...Kunnes provides a short introduction on the similarities between the conflicts in Vietnam and Salvador, as well as the differences, which he feels are an important source of optimism...
...While useful, this guide suffers from uneven editing and too varied methodology...
...and chronicles U.S...
...The region, linking the Caribbean to the Pacific, is one of the few tropical mining (gold) areas where both blacks and Indians were enslaved...
...Available from Solidarity Publications are the following materials on El Salvador: Platform for a Democratic Revolutionary Government (FDR), (Spanish or English, $.25...
...Comision Evangelica Latinoamericana de Educacion Cristiana, Paraguay (CELADEC, Servicio Documental, No...
...Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010...
...murdered Archbishop Oscar Romero's letter to President Carter and the FDR platform...
...Marvin E. Gettleman, ed., El Salvador: Central America in the New Cold War (Grove Press, 1981...
...29.50, cloth, 290 pgs...
...Articles on the New Right from 65 periodicals of varying persuasions are collected in this latest Press Profile in the Center's series...
...Box 40874, San Francisco, CA 94140...
...16.95, cloth, 144 pgs...
...Condensed versions of the profile are available for $6.50 each: The New Right: Fundamentalists & Financiers, Press Profile No...
...Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, Bitter Fruit-The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (Doubleday, 1982...
...In this series of essays and lectures, Frank sees a major crisis of accumulation and examinies the system's creation of a structural model based on a new international division of labor...
...The schemes must be seen, she argues, as challenges to existing social orders, which, though they can be co-opting, do provide impetus for social change...
...New American Movement, 3244 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60657...
...military...
...Contains a complete bibliography...
...Grove Press, Inc...
...13.50, paper, 154 pgs...
...Academic Press, 111 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10003...
...El Salvador: The Struggle for Democracy and U.S...
...Good photos...
...3, paper, 93 pgs...
...A collection of mostly reprinted articles...
...Based on documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Kinzer and Schlesinger tell a compelling story of connivance between the United Fruit Company and government officials in the United States and Central America...
...Repetition seems once again to make truth: CISPES, according to the author, was founded by the Salvadorean Communist Party and the massacre at Archbishop Romero's funeral was instigated "purportedly by left-wing guerrillas...
...Hard data on the economic and social consequences of U.S...
...The Peruvian "industrial Communities" instituted by the Velasco government (1968-75) are weighed against similar Swedish, Yugoslavian and West German projects...
...A useful introduction to the history of El Salvador and its current conflict...
...37.50, cloth, 699 pgs...
...An appendix lists resources and activist groups for those wishing to delve further...
...Pearce builds her argument toward an extended final essay on the crisis in El Salvador...
...The Guatemalan people are still paying the price...
...Volume III considers strategy and impact in light of issues identified with the movement...
...Government and right-wing repression as well as U.S...
...Volume I offers a "who's who" look at personalities and organizations...
...6.50, paper, 103 pgs...
...CELADEC's pamphlet serves as an introduction to Latin America's oldest dictatorship as well as a resource to the well-apprised...
...Doubleday & Co., 245 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10167...
...William Frederick Sharp, Slavery on the Spanish Frontier-The Colombian Choco, 1680-1810 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1981...
...In addition, Frank comments on the bankruptcy of bourgeois economic theory in analyzing the current crisis and projects three "1984 scenarios" for the advanced industrial states...
...Mats Lundahl, Pusants and Poverty: A Study of Haiti (St...
...95, paper, 216 pgs...
...reprints of key articles on history, the economy, labor struggles, the Church...
...Robert N. Thomas and John M. Hunter, eds ., Internal Migration Systems in the Developing World-With Special Reference to Latin America (Schenkman Publishing Co., 1980...
...A slim volume of sophisticated analysis...
...Excellent source of bibliographical information on El Salvador...
...The film, aided financially by the Danish Government Agency for Development Aid, focuses on three girls and a boy, ages 12 to 19, who talk about their experience during the insurrection, their work and hopes for the country's future...
...Volume IV addresses the liberal backlash and includes 90 pages of commentary and debate...
...Available in Spanish or Danish...
...An economic study of the causes of rural poverty in Haiti...
...James Petras on the State Department's discredited White Paper...
...4 and The New Right: Issues & Analyses, Press Profile No...
...Freedom House, 1982...
...1.50, paper, 47 pgs...
...Decrying biased, uninformed media coverage of the Salvadorean conflict, this rightwing "freedom" watch group attempts to set the record straight in a brief overview of Salvador's history and the "facts" of the conflict...
...Guatemala, Colombia, Peru and Argentina are treated individually as well as locations in Africa and Asia...
...196 West Houston Street, New York, NY 10014...
...5-Fortune 500 (Corporate Data Exchange, 1981...
...Volume II looks at research institutes and funding sources...
...Schenkman Publishing Co., 3 Mount Auburn Place, Cambridge, MA 02138...
...Press Profile No...
...Evelyne Huber Stephens, The Politics of Workers' ParticipationThe Peruvian Aproach in Comparative Perspective (Academic Press, 1980...
...The material is packed in and sometimes difficult to absorb, but this book is worth the effort...
...W., Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1X7, Canada...
...An anthology of articles covering a wide range of topics-agrarian reform, the Vietnam legacy, domino theories and human rights...
...Freedom House, 20 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018...
...A good general survey of the problems of the agricultural sector, with analysis of both economic and political determinants of what he calls the "cumulative process of falling rural income...
...Duke University Press, 6697 College Station, Durham, NC 27708...
...policymakers...
...An extremely useful pre-election guide to the March Salvadorean contest...
...MISCELLANEOUS Data Center, The New Right: Readings & Commentary, Volumes 1-4 (Data Center, 1981...
...This work is a very readable account of slavery in Choco, a part of Colombia which Sharp calls "one of nature's sauna baths...
...Bruce R. McColm, El Salvador: Peaceful Revolution or Armed Struggle...
...T5, 1981...
...7.95, paper, 397 pgs...
...Occupied by descendants of these two groups, the area remains underdeveloped and isolated...
...Write for price, paper, 54 pgs...
...Essential reading for anyone concerned about U.S...
...The Bolivian section includes descriptive essays on 10 archives while the chapter on Chile approaches the research thematically...
...MarlApr 1982 CAMINO, El Salvador 1982, Elections Without Choice (Central America Information Office, 1982...
...Liisa North, Bitter Grounds: Roots of Revolt in El Salvador (Between the Lines, 1982...
...The work provides many overlooked details, for example that voting is mandatory...
...involvement in the 1954 coup that ousted Guatemala's elected president, Jacobo Arbenz...
...Gathered in one accessible booklet is the necessary information-the country's electoral history, political parties, contestants and electoral statutes-for understanding what was to transpire in this highly scrutinized election...
...A 3-fold handout, $4 per 100...
...Dissent Paper on El Salvador and Central America, by CIA, Defense and State Department analysts (28 pp...
...Bulk prices available, Solidarity Publications, P.O...
...Write for price, paper, 69 pgs...
...The highly successful literacy campaign--carried out by 70,000 young people-is also examined...
...The articles in each section span the ideological spectrum-from Jeane Kirkpatrick to FMLN Commander Cayetano Carpio-with introductions from the editors to set the terms of the debate...
...Also included are chapters on Salvador's history and the role of the U.S...
...Revolution in El Salvador: From Coordination to Unity, a collection of documents, including the FDR Platform (36 pp., $2...
...Using an interdisciplinary approach (economics, geography, anthropology and sociology), empirical chapters address the whys, whats, whens and shows of rural to urban migration...
...We would like to draw your attention to the following solidarity resources: Los hijos de la revolucion is a 40-minute color film on the participation of youth in the revolutionary process in Nicaragua, where 75% of the population is under 25 years of age...
...Another useful volume in CDE's Stock Ownership Directory Series...
...Andre Gunder Frank, Reflections on the World Economic Crisis (Monthly Review Press, 1981...
...interventionism in Latin America-past, present and future...
...Latin America Bureau, 1 Amwell Street, London, EC1...
...interventionism are larded with a generous selection of juicy quotes from U.S...
...The authors present a detailed and highly readable account of U.S...
...Creating Another Vietnam War in El Salvador...
...7.95, paper...
...The final two countries seem to combine the two approaches, which, all told, decreases the book's accessibility...
...complicity are largely explained by what these groups are "forced" to do in the face of "Marxist-Leninist terrorism...
...2. A collection of articles from December 1980 to June 1981 from 20, mostly U.S., mainstream and critical publications on the State Department's White Paper, international response to Reagan's regional policy and the conflict's origins...
...The book is divided into chapters that describe each segment of Salvadorean society (women, the Church, the peasantry, etc...
...CAMINO, El Salvador: Background to the Crisis (Central America Information Office, 1982...
...CELADEC, Avenida General Garzon 2267, Lima 11, Peru...
...Between the Lines, 427 Bloor St...
...and reprints of an OAS report on human rights and the 1978 "National Agreement ' signed by four opposition groups...
...Martin's Press, 1979...
...Military Involvement In El Salvador 1947 - 1980 (26 pp., $1.25...
...For information, contact Statens Filmcentral, Vesterbrogade 27, DK-1456 Copenhagen K., Denmark...
...Highly recommended...
...Articles include, the Village Voice's Cockburn and Ridgeway on Reagan's war...
...6.95, paper, 253 pgs...
...Involvement, (28 pp., $1.50...
...5, paper, 148 pgs...
...CAMINO, 1151 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138...
...University of Oklahoma Press, 1005 Asp Avenue, Norman, OK 73019...
...Corporate Data Exchange, Inc., 198 Broadway, Room 706-7, New York, NY 10038...
...John J. TePaske, ed., Research Guide to Andean History: Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru (Duke University Press, 1981...
...involvement...
...1.25...
...oil, minerals, military goods...
...Monthly Review Press...
...Is the U.S...

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