New Resources

CUBA Pathfinder Press, Twenty Years of the Cuban Revolution and Selected Speeches of Fidel Castro (Pathfinder Press, 1979). $4, paper, 134 pgs. This collection of Castro’s speeches -1960 to 1979-was published by the Socialist Workers Party’s (SWP) National Education Department in their Education for Socialists series. Speeches address both domestic and foreign (Czechoslovakia, Somalia/Ethiopia) affairs and include Castro’s historic, four-and-one-half-hour address to the UN General Assembly. In a speech to youth, party leader Jack Barnes pro- vides a history and perspective of the Cuban experience, offer- ing a basis for understanding Castro’s words. (Pathfinder Press, 410 West Street, New York, NY 10014.) Pathfinder Press, Fidel Castro on Chile (Pathfinder Press, 1982). $5, paper, 158 pgs. Selected speeches and interviews from Castro’s 1971 tour of Chile attempt to give an overview of the Cuban leader’s interaction with Chile and Chileans during the Popular Unity government. Elizabeth Stone, SWP member and editor of a book on Cuban women, places the collection in a historical context, documenting Cuban support for the Popular Unity process. (Pathfinder Press.) CENTRAL AMERICA Shelton H. Davis and Julie Hodson, Oxfam Impact Audit 2: Witness to Political Violence In Guatemala (Oxfam America, 1982). $5, paper, 54 pgs. Compiled from questionnaire responses from more than 100 U.S. priests, scholars and development workers, provides a vivid testimony of rural repression in Guatemala. Focuses on Army attempts to destroy the 1970s cooperative movement, a vital source of Indian “awakening” and their incorporation into the revolutionary struggle. A concluding essay reflects on U.S. policy toward Guatemala. Stunning photos. (Oxfam America, 115 Broadway, Boston, MA 02116.) El Salvador Bulletin, published by the U.S.-El Salvador Research and Information Center, P.O. Box 4797, Berkeley CA 94704. $10/year. Monthly 6-8-page bulletin updating events. Cynthia Arnson, El Salvador: A Revolution Confronts the United States (Institute for Policy Studies, 1982). $2.50, paper, 118 pgs. Short, concise, linear account of the roots of the Salvadorean revolution and the U.S. response to it by a person whose analysis of U.S. military involvement in El Salvador and the third world is always thorough and dependable. A good primer for the uninitiated with charts on U.S. aid, military per- sonnel and political actors in El Salvador. (Institute for Policy Studies, 1901 0 Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.) Americas Watch Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union, Report on Human Rights In El Salvador (Vintage Books, SepilOct 1162 1982). $3.95, paper, 312 pgs. A lawyerly study of human rights violations by the Salvadorean government both before and after the coup of October 1979. Its focus is abuse of individual and political rights, mixing argument with vivid eye-witness ac- counts.’ A chapter on legal restrictions on U.S. involvement is a useful contribution to the on-going debate. Written rather like a legal brief, it answers ably and positively the skeptic’s question: Are fundamental human rights violated in El Salvador? (Vintage Books, 201 East 50th Street, New York, NY 10022.) CHILE Samuel Chavkin, The Murder of Chile: Eyewitness Accounts of the Coup, the Terror and the Resistance Today (Everest House, 1982). $13.95, cloth, 286 pgs. Nine years after the coup, the story remains compelling. In nine chapters, Chavkin lets the survivors-not yet the victors-tell the tales of the coup and how it affected various sectors of Chilean society. A final chapter documents the advances, as well as the problems, of the resistance struggle. (Everest House, 33 W. 60th Street, New York, NY 10023.) MALVINASIFALKLANDS Latin America Bureau, Falidands/Malvinas: Whose Crisis? (Latin America Bureau, 1982). L1.95, paper, 133 pgs. This ad- mirable book fulfills its purpose: to give readers the background needed to assess the real issues at stake in the South Atlantic war. Pressing beyond British government and media stereo- types of Falkland Islands society, the authors depict a declining population in economic and social distress, exploited by absentee landowners and a bureaucratic, undemocratic col- onial administration. A lucid chapter on Argentina offers one of the better short descriptions of recent economic and social history available in English. Includes a chronology of the crisis based on British sources, and an appendix on the British popular press. (Latin America Bureau, 1 Amwell Street, London EC1R 1UL, U.K.) Gonzalo Ortiz et al., Malvinas. La trampa del imperlo (Editorial El Conejo, 1982). Write for price, paper, 135 pgs. Six essays by Latin American and French journalists on the background and significance of the South Atlantic war: the recent economic histories and internal political situations of Britain and Argen- tina, the U.S. role, the apparent damage to U.S. hegemony in the hemisphere. Published while the war still raged, in May, these essays provide a glimpse of the bitterness felt by most Latin Americans at the British and North American actions. (Editorial El Conejo, Casilla 4629-A, Quito, Ecuador.) MISCELLANEOUS Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps, Networking: The First Report and Directory (Dolphin/Doubleday and Co., 1982). $15.95, paper; $29.95, cloth, 416 pgs. “People connecting with people, linking ideas and resources” isthe definition the authors offer for networking, the grass-roots organizing which is carry- ing the mantle of 1960s radicalism. The guide functions both as a profile of the movements and a listing of organizations. Covered are health, ecology and the environment, coopera- tives, politics and economics, education and communications, personal and spiritual growth and groups working on global issues and the future. NACLA is mentioned in this last category. (Doubleday and Co., 245 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10167.)