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Eastern cauldron : Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq in a Marxist mirror
- Title
- Eastern cauldron : Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq in a Marxist mirror / Gilbert Achcar ; translated by Peter Drucker.
- Author
- Achcar, Gilbert.
- Publication
- New York : Monthly Review Press, c2004.
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- Description
- 287 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-279) and index.
- Contents
- Eleven theses on the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism -- The swan song of Khomeini's revolution -- The Arab despotic exception -- On the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan -- Afghanistan : balance sheet of a war -- The agreement on Soviet withdrawal -- The "Lebanonization" of Afghanistan -- The Palestinian uprising -- The uprising's fourth month -- Where is the PLO going? : the long march backwards -- Where is the PLO going? : the state, the PLO, and the Palestinian Left -- The dynamic of the Intifada -- The Washington Accords : a retreat under pressure -- Zionism and peace : from the Allon Plan to the Washington Accords -- Hezbollah's victory -- Israel's military onslaught and U.S. interests in the Middle East -- The long tragedy of the Iraqi people -- Operation oil : why the United States wants a war -- The empire prepares to strike -- Washington and London's problems have only just begun -- The war in Iraq and the establishment of a "new imperial order" -- Letter to a slightly depressed antiwar activist.
- ISBN
- 1583670955 (paper)
- 1583670963 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 2004001239
- OCLC
- ocm54079936
- SCSB-14453768
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library