Dispatches From Durban: Firsthand Commentaries on the World Conference Against Racism and Post-September 11 Movement Strategies - Softcover

"Dispatches from Durban is a strategic document, framing a broader vision of politics that takes the U.S. Left on an international journey. Eric Mann, a major voice on the Left for nearly four decades, is an organizer first and foremost. Dispatches was largely produced in Durban, South Africa, during his participation in the historic World Conference Against Racism. Marching in the streets of Durban with African workers in solidarity with the Congress of South African Trade Unions, Mann recognized immediately that the South African Left has many lessons to teach radicals in the United States about building strategic alliances.

"Mann imagines a Left capable of blocking U.S. intervention in Third World countries, battling corporate globalization, and defending the rights of oppressed nationalities here in the ‘belly of the beast.’ He highlights the Reparations Movement’s revolutionary potential to expose the relationship between the development of capitalism, racism, colonialism and slavery, and to strike directly at the World Bank, the IMF, the G8 nations, and the U.S. itself. Mann envisions a renaissance for the Left. There is a refreshing, at times startling, realpolitik optimism running throughout this book."

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