Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror Book

	Preface	7
	Introduction : U.S. imperial strategy in the Middle East	9
Pt. I	The resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism	47
1	Eleven theses on the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism	48
2	The swan song of Khomeini's revolution	60
3	The Arab despotic exception	69
Pt. II	Afghanistan : Quagmire of the great powers	75
4	On the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan	76
5	Afghanistan : balance sheet of a war	79
6	The agreement on Soviet withdrawal	98
7	The "Lebanonization" of Afghanistan	112
Pt. III	Palestine : from one Intifada to the next	115
8	The Palestinian uprising	116
9	The uprising's fourth month	124
10	Where is the PLO going? : the long march... backwards	129
11	Where is the PLO going? : the state, the PLO, and the Palestinian left	154
12	The dynamic of the Intifada	175
13	The Washington accords : a retreat under pressure	189
14	Zionism and peace : from the Allon plan to the Washington accords	205
15	Hezbollah's victory	223
16	Israel's military onslaught and U.S. interests in the Middle East	228
Pt. IV	Iraq : from one war to the next	233
17	The long tragedy of the Iraqi people	234
18	Operation oil : why the United States wants a war	242
19	The empire prepares to strike	247
20	Washington and London's problems have only just begun	252
21	The war in Iraq and the establishment of a "new imperial order"	254
22	Letter to a slightly depressed antiwar activist	258
	Notes	265
	Index	280