GAVIN O’TOOLE examines the fatal relationship between environmental crimes and politics in Brazil and the inspiration provided by Indigenous people

Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire
by Anya Parampil
OR Books £19.99
WHILE blanket Western outrage at the outcome of Venezuela’s recent elections offers more than a lesson in US imperial rabble-rousing, it can also teach us about how language is infused with power.
It can warn us, for example, about the continued dangers of swallowing Washington’s deceitful definition of democracy without reading the list of toxic ingredients on the packet.
Take the astonishing lengths to which the compliant Western media have gone to dismiss President Nicolas Maduro as a totalitarian tyrant — not least since the July 28 poll — eloquently unravelled in the Morning Star by Roger Harris and Peter Bolton.

GAVIN O’TOOLE examines the fatal relationship between environmental crimes and politics in Brazil and the inspiration provided by Indigenous people

GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes the reissue of a seminal work of revolutionary theory that have genuine relevance in the current context

