---------- Forwarded message --------- From: LeftWord Books, New Delhi <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:03 PM Subject: The CIA's 'Glorious Victory' To: <[email protected]> <https://leftword.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73f937099da58e7b03eff017a&id=5912faa016&e=90ec074e8f> <https://leftword.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73f937099da58e7b03eff017a&id=c7bff3e7e3&e=90ec074e8f> Amit Sengupta (1958–2018) believed the job of a doctor was not simply to treat a sick individual, but to build a society in which health is a fundamental right of all citizens. In these times of the Covid-19 pandemic, such a perspective is more relevant than ever. The essays in *Political Journeys in Health: Essays by and for Amit Sengupta* <https://leftword.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73f937099da58e7b03eff017a&id=70d17f6b3b&e=90ec074e8f> book trace how Sengupta's work and politics were integral to the history of the health movement, and how this movement evolved from ‘medicines for all’ to ‘health for all’. Read more <https://leftword.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73f937099da58e7b03eff017a&id=fa12587f35&e=90ec074e8f> . <https://leftword.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73f937099da58e7b03eff017a&id=403ce99f9e&e=90ec074e8f> Washington Bullets <https://leftword.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73f937099da58e7b03eff017a&id=4090b5a4a4&e=90ec074e8f> Vijay Prashad The book is a roll call of butchers and assassins, of plots against people’s movements and governments; of the assassination of socialists, Marxists, communists all over the Third World by the country where liberty is a statue. But nonetheless, the book is about possibilities, about hope, about genuine heroes. 978-81-945925-2-5, Ebook, INR 175 <https://leftword.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73f937099da58e7b03eff017a&id=fbbfd5f0e9&e=90ec074e8f> (USD 7) Also read. . . <https://leftword.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73f937099da58e7b03eff017a&id=70029b1330&e=90ec074e8f> Operation PBSUCCESS: CIA's 'Glorious Victory' <https://leftword.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73f937099da58e7b03eff017a&id=0f47000375&e=90ec074e8f> In March 1951, Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán took office as the President of Guatemala. The landless movement and the Left had fought to elect a president who decided to push through a moderate land reform agenda. Such a project threatened to undercut the land holding of the United Fruit Company, a US conglomerate that strangled this American nation. The CIA got to work. To ‘remove covertly, and without bloodshed *if possible*, the menace of the present Communist-controlled government in Guatemala’, the CIA launched a covert operation – the innocuously named PBSUCCESS. Below is a faux-real-time account of the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état, 11 days that didn’t shake the world as much as they ought to have. Read more <https://leftword.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=73f937099da58e7b03eff017a&id=c2e0f0c527&e=90ec074e8f> . 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