James Petras, In Memorian
United States :: 02.13.2026Professor James Petras, 89, world-renowned sociologist, public intellectual, and scholar of Latin American politics and global economics, died peacefully on January 17, 2026, in Seattle, WA, surrounded by family. A prolific scholar and activist, he devoted his life to challenging power, imperialism, and inequality.

New Essays
[Book] Politics and Social Forces in Chilean Development
Latin America :: 09.03.2024Chile, which suffering from many of the same social and economic problems that afflict other Latin American countries, has enjoyed remarkable political stability. With the exception of one brief interlude, Chile has been governed by elected rules for half a century.
This title was originally published in 1969. 1st Edition in UCPRESS: Sep. 2020

U.S. Offensive in Latin America. Coups, Retreats, and Radicalization
Latin America :: 09.03.2024The worldwide U.S. military-political offensive is manifest in multiple contexts in Latin America. The U.S. offensive aims to prop up decaying client regimes, destabilize independent regimes, pressure the center-left to move to the right, and destroy or isolate the burgeoning popular movements challenging the U.S. empire and its clients.

United States and Venezuela: A Historical Background
Latin America :: 05.13.2019Introduction: US hostility and efforts to overthrow the Venezuelan government forms parts of a long and inglorious history of US intervention in Latin America going back to the second decade of the 19th century.

US Global Power: The Trump Period: An Assessment
United States :: 05.01.2019Introduction: US global power in the Trump period reflects the continuities and changes which are unfolding rapidly and deeply throughout the world and which are affecting the position of Washington.

Shadow Boxing for Empire: The Mueller Report
United States :: 04.21.2019By the end of the Obama regime, the US had gone through seven wars and was in the process of losing five of them. Washington was facing global challenges to its dominant economic and political role from Russia and China.

Julian Assange and the Agenda for Global War
Analysis :: 04.15.2019Introduction: For almost a decade Washington has sought to silence, jail and eliminate the world’s most prominent investigative journalist, Julian Assange (JA) and his team of co-workers at Wilkileaks (WL).

New book: “Latin America in the Vortex of Social Change”
James Petras & Henry Veltmeyer :: Analysis :: 04.15.2019Unfortunately for the Left and the popular sector organizations that had pinned their hopes on these regimes, the opportunity to change the course of national development in a popular or populist direction was missed


