Rebuilding the Left

MARTA HARNECKER is the director of MEPLA, a research organization on the history of popular movements in Latin America. Her recent publications include Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution, a book of interviews with Hugo Chavez.

Answers the question, what future is there for the left, faced with the challenges of the twenty-first century? This book addresses the crisis facing the left. It offers hope to those who believe that we can build a different world. It is aimed at activists as well as Latin American scholars.

Part I - The Left and the New World Chapter 1: Profound Changes in the World Chapter 2: Profound Discontent among Much of Humankind Chapter 3: Towards the Creation of an Alternative Social Bloc Part II - The Crises of 'Party' and Why we Need a New Left Political Culture Chapter 4: Crisis of TheoryChapter 5: Programmatic Crisis and the Crisis of Credibility Chapter 6: The Organic Crisis Chapter 7: The Theory Underlying this Concept of Party Chapter 8: Politics as the Art of Making the Impossible Possible Chapter 9: Why we Need a Political Organization Part III - The New Political Instrument Chapter 10: The Characteristics of the New Political Instrument Chapter 11: A New Paradigm for Internal Organization Part IV - From Reforms to Revolution: The Bolivarian Revolutionary Process Chapter 12: Local Governments: Signposts to an Alternative Path Chapter 13: The Left and Reform Chapter 14: The Bolivarian Revolution, one Revolution