America as Overlord

The late Hal Draper was the author of many books, including the five-volume study of Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, as well as Socialism from Below and Berkeley: The New Student Revolt. He was also a prominent socialist journalist and editor of the journal Labor Action from 1948-1958. Samuel Farber was born and raised in Marianao, Cuba, and came to the United States in February 1958. He obtained a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969 and taught at a number of colleges and universities including UCLA and, most recently, Brooklyn College, where he is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science. His scholarship on Cuba is extensive and includes many articles and several books. Farber was active in the Cuban high school student movement against Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s, and has been involved in socialist politics for more than fifty years.

Introduction by Samuel Farber
Publisher’s Note

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2. America as Arbiter: An Essay in Historical Perspective
3. The Case of Guatemala
4. America’s Colonies – Okinawa, Samoa, Guam
5. The Crime of Okinawa: American Bulldozers at Work on the “Cyprus of the Pacific”
6. Guam: Island on Your Conscience
7. Who Cares About Samoa?
8. Kennedy’s Disastrous Cuban Policy
9. The Revolutionary Potential in Vietnam
10. The ABC of National Liberation: A Political Guide