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Book: The Failure of Global Capitalism: From Cape Breton to Colombia and Beyond

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July 25, 2009
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Book: The Failure of Global Capitalism: From Cape Breton to Colombia and Beyond

Maude Barlow's book: The Failure of Global Capitalism

Praise for The Failure of Global Capitalism

“What do Cape Breton and Colombia have in common? Decades of life under a market economy that gobbles resources for the benefit of the few based on the back breaking work of the many. Now, they also have Garry Leech and Terry Gibbs who have written a scathing book chronicling this unjust system and pointing the way to a better Cape Breton, a better Colombia and a better world.”

—Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians

“This book is a well-researched and shocking exposure of the ugly tapestry of oppression, inequality, and environmental degradation that global capitalism has woven, from Canada to Colombia and beyond. Gibbs and Leech are deft at showing the connections between the local and the global and the consequent need to act both locally and globally if we are to confront the depredations of the system. But they don’t stop at demonstrating the failure of global capitalism. They show how local communities are struggling for alternatives that point the way toward a more democratic, equitable, and sustainable future. This book is a fine piece of scholarship and a must read for community activists, social movements, and committed scholars.”

—William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Latin American Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara

Reviews

“This book has a title that may scare most of us superficial folk away – after all, this isn’t another bestselling thriller but you should read it anyway. It might just knock you off your complacent ‘everything is OK’ butt.”

—Halifax Chronicle Herald

Originally published on www.colombiajournal.org

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