Resource Update
BRAZIL, CHILE, COLOMBIA Neuma Aguiar, ed., The Structure of Brazilian Development (Transaction Books, 1979). $14.95 cloth, 258 pgs. A series of essays by Brazilian social scientists....
...Carlos Lenkersdorf, Diccionario tojolabal-espaflol: idioma mayance do los Altos de Chiapas (Editorial Nuestro Tiempo, 1979...
...The dictionary was written at the request of the Tojolabal Indians and was designed specifically as a tool for the oppressed to better understand the language of the dominating society in which they live...
...University of Oklahoma Press, 1005 Asp Avenue, Norman, OK 73019...
...II (South End Press, 1979...
...Hugo Latorre Cabal, The Revolution of the Latin American Church (University of Oklahoma Press, 1978...
...A trimestral news and analysis publication about political, economic and social developments in Colombia and Latin America...
...Fernando Velasco Abad, La dependencia, el imperialismo y las empresas transnacionales (Quito: Editorial El Conejo, 1979...
...The study examines the effects of what the authors call the "Pentagon-CIA Archipelago" on the countries of Indochina and Latin America...
...The Washington Connection analyzes the role of the U.S...
...Also includes a list of supportive labor unions, legal services and other agencies...
...Available from South End Press, Box 68 Astor Station, Boston, MA 02123...
...The equivalent for Britain is 500,000- more than were killed in the armed forces during the Second World War...
...I of "The Political Economy of Human Rights," and, After the Cataclysm: Post-War Indochina, Vol...
...Subscriptions: $4 individuals, $10 sup46 porters, $15 libraries...
...The majority examine the role of the peasantry in Brazil, both in rural areas and as they become integrated into urban zones...
...Another excellent study of the ideological apparatuses of imperialism...
...This book focuses on the electronics industry, space technology and militarization, high-technology education, movies, the press and advertising agencies...
...Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY 10545...
...Jackson traces the relationship between the Black experience and its literary expression in Latin America from 1821 to the present...
...This extremely useful book does just what its title claims: examines the hazards of asbestos and how people can fight for better protection from its dangers...
...New Mexico People and Energy, El otro lade: Un guia por los indocumentados (NMPE, 1979...
...We have noted some of their publications in previous "Resource Updates" and recommend that people write for their entire list...
...7.95 paper, 370 pgs...
...Schenkman Publishing Co., 3 Mt...
...Velasco attempts to answer the basic question, what are the fundamental laws of capitalism which give rise to the tremendous concentration of economic power in a few multinational corporations...
...Colombia Report...
...Available from Editorial Nuestro Tiempo, Av...
...Gabriel Smirnow, The Revolution Disarmed: Chile, 1970-1973 (Monthly Review Press, 1979...
...15.95 cloth, 357 pgs...
...For a free list of over 70 alternative and small press periodicals which can be ordered by mail, send your name, address and a 154 stamp to: Periodicals-by-Mail, A Periodical Retreat, PO Box 1246, Ann Arbor, MI 48106...
...government, corporate and media establishments in the affairs of Third World countries...
...Useful popular study on undocumented migration from Mexico to the United States...
...The Ideological Apparatuses of Imperialism (Humanities Press, 1979...
...Available from Libros Florencia, PO Box 451, Chapel Hill, NC 27514...
...government officially estimates that two million American workers can be expected to die of cancer due to asbestos exposure in the next 30 years...
...Federico Gil, Ricardo Lagos, Henry Landsberger, eds., Chile: 1970-1973...
...University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM 87131...
...The U.S...
...Of particular interest is his discussion of the pivotal role played by Cuban poet Nicolas Guill6n...
...A clearly-written, Spanish-language booklet for use by undocumented workers...
...42.50, 425 pgs, first of 2 vol...
...Rather than a study of ideology, this book examines the details of how foreign policy is formulated and adopted...
...South End Press is such a publisher...
...Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716...
...Smirnow presents a fairly biting examination of the Chilean Left, from the Communist Party and his own Socialist Party to the MIR...
...It also includes particularly good articles by Penny Lernoux ("The Long Path to Puebla") and Robert McAffe Brown ("The Significance of Puebla for the Protestant Churches in North America...
...Published findings of a 1975 conference on Chile held at the University of North Carolina...
...9.95 cloth, 192 pgs...
...2.50 paper, 274 pgs...
...Special focus on popular struggles, the Left and imperialism in Colombia...
...FOREIGN POLICY Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, Vol...
...Copilco 300, Local 6-7, Mexico 20, DF, Mexico...
...After the Cataclysm focuses on post-1975 Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and the particular role of the U.S...
...A Worker/Community Guide: How to Fight the Hazards of Asbestos and its Substitutes...
...London: BSSRS Publications, 1979...
...12.50 cloth, 224 pgs...
...20 cloth, $5.95 paper, 362 pgs...
...Update and revision of the 1977 edition, finally in a mass paperback...
...Price not given, paper, 242 pgs...
...Available from: Trade Union Bookservice, 265 Seven Sisters Road, London N4 2DE, England...
...OTHER NOTEWORTHY ITEMS Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins, Food First, Beyond the Myth of Scarcity (Ballantine, 1979...
...Should be at your local bookstore...
...Includes information on the documented, finding medical services and legal help, etc...
...L2 plus 25p postage, paper, 288 pgs...
...Write for price, paper, 66 pgs...
...In order to understand modern Brazil, Evans argues, one must look at the relationship between private Brazilian capitalists, state-owned enterprises and multinational corporations...
...Sasha G. Lewis, Slave Trade Today: American Exploitation of Illegal Alient (Beacon Press, 1979...
...Dick J. Reavis, Without Documents (Condor Publishing Co., Inc., 1978...
...The authors argue that Vietnam and Watergate have led Congress to assert forcefully its role in foreign policy matters, thus challenging what was the "Imperial Presidency...
...Thomas Franck and Edward Weisband, Foreign Policy by Congress (Oxford University Press, 1979...
...Reavis concludes that "the ultimate solution can only be one which grants Mexico an economic independence...
...Lecclones de una experiencia (Madrid: Editorial Tecnos, 1977...
...The book presents a compelling view of the disasters of capitalism on a human level, but is often marred by superficial analysis...
...Evolution and revolution in the Latin American Church as written by a proponent of the "theology of liberation...
...Newsletter of international Labour Studies...
...IMPERIALISM AND U.S...
...It is extremely rare that a new publisher appears with a highly worthwhile book list...
...media in reportNACLA Reportupdate * update * update * update ing events in these countries...
...A collage of facts on the decline of capitalism and a non-dogmatic approach to the issues of socialism...
...For sample copy and information, write NILS, Galileistraat 130, 2561 TK, The Hague, Netherlands...
...A synthetic, historical and political analysis of imperialism and dependency in Latin America...
...Transaction Books, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903...
...10.95 cloth, 239 pgs...
...Monthly Review Press, 62 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011...
...25c booklet, 34 pgs...
...Periodicals-by-Mall is a project designed to give wider accessibility to worthwhile periodicals not distributed through many newsstands...
...Write for price, paper, 470 pgs...
...This book reprints the entire final document accepted by the Third General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate held in Puebla, Mexico, in 1979...
...Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016...
...work...
...Available from: Colombia Report, c/o Program in Comparative Culture, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717...
...LATIN AMERICA John Eagleson and Philip Scharper, eds., Puebla and Beyond: Documentation and Commentary (Orbis Books, 1979...
...Auburn PI., Cambridge, MA 02138...
...Richard L. Jackson, Black Writers in Latin America (University of New Mexico Press, 1979...
...Write for price, cloth, 304 pgs...
...Harold Freeman, Toward Socialism in America (Schenkman Publishing Co., 1979...
...2.75 paper, 619 pgs...
...While we do not normally use "Resource Update" to note the publication of dictionaries, this is a good one...
...NMPE, Box 4726, Albuquerque, NM 87196...
...14 cloth, 170 pgs...
...Peter Evans, Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational, State and Local Capital In Brazil (Princeton University Press, 1979...
...II, $5.50 paper, $15 cloth, 410 pgs...
...Very extensive bibliography of works by Brazilian authors...
...Beacon Press, 25 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108...
...I, $5.50 paper, $15 cloth, 458 pgs...
...NILS continues its highly useful publication with #4 (September 1979) containing information on on-going and completed studies of the labor movement, reviews and comments on labor studies, and a new bibliography of publications on labor...
...The high price reflects a subsidy so that the Tojolabal people can obtain it at a symbolic price...
...Armand Mattelart, Multinational Corporations and the Control of Culture...
...Condor Publishing Co., 521 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017...
...The book provides this examination and places it within the framework of an analysis of imperialism and dependent development along lines suggested by Fernando Henrique Cardoso...
...Another analysis of the Popular Unity years written by someone who actively participated in the events...
...He offers an institutional analysis of Chile, how the UP government tried to mold bourgeois institutions to socialist ends, and what new structures arose as the capitalist state was increasingly challenged...
...UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS AND LABOR STUDIES Alan JP Dalton, Asbestos: Killer Dust...
...Editorial El Conejo, Apartado 4629-A, Quito, Ecuador...
...The major articles were written by active participants in Chilean politics and examine the Popular Unity period, the causes for its defeat, and the effects of military rule...
...While this study does not provide a new analysis of labor migration, it pulls together a wealth of information JanlFeb 1980 on the topic as well as an extensive bibliography...
...Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 08540...
...Capital and the power to deploy it inside Mexico must be put in Mexican hands, for the benefit of the Mexican people, and not for transnational profit...
Vol. 14 • January 1980 • No. 1
