I first met C. Wright Mills in 1941 or 1942, when he was a young assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maryland (at that time, at least, a singularly dismal-looking provincial school whose president was one “Curly” Byrd, …
Since the cease-fire went into effect, our militants and sympathizers, their families and all those who support the PPA (Algerian People’s Party) have been the victims of kidnappings, torture and assassinations. The number of victims can be established at between …
Everyone recognized that the Cuba crisis opened a void of annihilation. But there was another void, in American political life, that few people remarked upon: the almost complete absence of any serious opposition or even restraining influence as the Administration …
Wednesday, the 24th October, was “United Nations Day” when every year one nation provides an artistic entertainment for the delegates. This year, it was the Russians’ turn; since morning the…
The fan-magazine treatment of the handful of men in the President’s kitchen cabinet who steered the nation through the crisis of the Cuban blockade has become embarrassing. Washington had already…
With the fatality of opportunism, the government is pursuing its prosecution of the Communist party under the McCarran Act of 1950. After 12 years of harassment, it is now within striking…
The sentiment of organized labor in the country is decidedly in favor of maintaining and encouraging the recognition of equality between colored and white workers…. .. to the union of the…
Editors: It is unfortunate that in summarizing the symposium of “The Young Radicals” [Winter, 1962], Mr. Lewis Coser could not resist the temptation to pass out grades. At least one of his “pupils” is inspired to question not only the …
“The trouble is, you Americans always want to castrate us,” said the Mexican nationalist who wore American shoes. “Take Cuba: its assertion of national sovereignty is like kicking you in the balls; our sovereignty is as important as our virility; …
The present situation in British Guiana must be traced back to the years immediately preceding World War II. Previous to that time, the colonies of the West Indies had lived in a kind of backwash of history. The overdevelopment of …
Bolivia’s history provides a case study, exaggerated almost to caricature, of the reasons for the economic and political backwardness of Latin America. Geographic poverty, the heritage from Spain, a one-crop economy, racial and social tensions, and the absence of a …
There is much talk these days about the Latin American middle class, about students, intellectuals and oligarchs. But, except when there are strikes, little talk about the industrial working class. There are some 15 to 20 million industrial workers in …
Until mid-June of 1961 when Life magazine’s millions of readers saw Gordon Parks’s photographic essay on poverty in Rio’s hillside slums (favelas), the American image of the life of Rio’s poor was based largely on Marcel Camus’ moving film fantasy, …
Most rural Latin Americans have a standard of living no better than that of the Indians who were found on the land by the European colonizers or of the slaves that subsequently were imported into parts of the continent. In …
Hunger, illiteracy, unemployment, an exploding population, race conflict, strife between the oppressive oligarchy and the miserable masses, with no middle class to stabilize a backward economy: are these the familiar problems of all Latin America? Then, a powerful case must …
