Eastern cauldron : Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist mirror

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Eastern cauldron : Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist mirror

Gilbert Achcar ; translated by Peter Drucker

Monthly Review Press, 2004

  • : pbk.
  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Eleven theses on the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism
  • The swan song of Khomeinism
  • The absence of democracy
  • Afghanistan : the dilemma of the super powers
  • The Soviet intervention
  • Afghanistan : eight years on from Soviet intervention
  • The implications of the Soviet troop withdrawal
  • After the fall of Najibullah : the Lebanonization of Afghanistan
  • Palestine : another uprising
  • Self-determination of the Palestinian people
  • Four months of uprising : rebellion continues against Israel's "apartheid"
  • The PLO : the long march backwards
  • The PLO : questions of practical politics
  • The dynamic of the Intifada
  • Washington accords : a retreat under pressure
  • Zionism and peace : from the Allon plan to the Washington accords
  • The Hizbollah victory
  • Israel's military onslaught and U.S. interests in the Middle East
  • Iraq : from one war to another
  • The tragedy of the Iraqi people
  • Operation oil : why the United States wants war
  • War drive : against the machine
  • Washington and London : the problems have only just begun
  • The war in Iraq and the establishment of a new imperial order
  • Letter to a slightly depressed antiwar activist

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