[van-announce] talk by Marta Harnecker, 9 September

[michael a. lebowitz]

APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS. Please pass this on.

         For a number of reasons, there hasn't been any publicity yet about 
a forthcoming talk by Marta Harnecker at SFU Harbour Centre on 9 September 
at 6:30 or 7 (this will be clarified shortly). The talk is being sponsored 
by the Latin American Studies Programme of SFU and will likely focus on her 
just-completed book on Venezuelan events (based upon extensive interviews 
with Chavez) and her book on the Landless Movement in Brazil (published in 
April).
         Marta Harnecker, a Chilean who was a student of Louis Althusser, 
edited the weekly magazine Chile Today during the period of the Popular 
Unity under Allende in Chile and has lived in Cuba since 1973.  She has 
published about fifty books and is known widely among Latin American 
militants for her book, "The Elemental Concepts of Historical Materialism", 
a book published by XXI Century (Siglo XXI) with 62 editions, and more than 
one million copies sold in the Spanish speaking world, which introduced 
many militants to Marx.  During the last few years, she has worked on the 
national liberation movements, and also on the  experiences the  Latin 
American left has had by using the institutional route in Brazil, Venezuela 
and Uruguay, considering the experiences of local governments of popular 
participation of the PT (Workers Party) in Brazil, those of ex CausaR  (R 
Cause) in Venezuela and the Frente Amplio (United Front) in Uruguay as well 
as a series of books on Cuban community experiences.
         So, mark this one in your calendar and watch for further notices.
                 in solidarity,
                          mike
Michael A. Lebowitz
Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
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