Global Battlefields: Memoir of a Legendary Public Intellectual from the Global South

This absorbing memoir by a legendary public intellectual from the Global South vividly recounts his journey from student activist to a global figure on the international left.

It traces Walden Bello’s life trajectory from a leader of the movement against the Vietnam War at Princeton to Salvador Allende’s Chile, where he provides a startling take on its “peaceful road to socialism”.

His participation in the US—based movement to cut off US assistance to the Marcos dictatorship led to iconic a...