Engaging stories in the form of Marxist journalism about US
imperialism
Washington
Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism
and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories,
full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae
obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily
have been a song of despair—a lament of lost causes; it is, after
all, a roll call of butchers and assassins; of plots against people’s
movements and governments; of the assassinations of socialists,
Marxists, communists all over the Third World by the country where
liberty is a statue.
Despite all this,
Washington Bullets is a book about possibilities, about hope,
about genuine heroes. One such is Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso—also
assassinated—who said: ‘You cannot carry out fundamental change
without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from
nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the
courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us
to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of
those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.’
Washington
Bullets is a book infused with this madness, the madness that
dares to invent the future.