Acknowledgements
Preface
1. The Disinherited Left: From Dogmatic Orthodoxy to Romantic
Anti-Capitalism
2. Democracy, Formal or Substantive: When Liberalism Becomes
Counter-Revolutionary
3. Socialism or Popular Power: Revolutionary Reality in a
Globalised World
4. Originality and Relevance of the Cuban Revolution
5. Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela
6. Revolutions Aborted: Chile, Nicaragua, Portugal
7. Leadership, Movement and Representation: Populism and
Revolutionary Strategy
8. The Way Forward: Democracy, Popular Power and Revolution
Bibliography
Index
D.L. Raby is Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Liverpool, and also holds the rank of Professor Emeritus in the History Department of the University of Toronto. He is the author of Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and Socialism Today (Pluto, 2006). Raby has written many studies of Latin American and Iberian History and Politics, and is a long-standing activist in solidarity campaigns with Latin American struggles and social movements in the UK and Canada.
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