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Pluto Press, London, 2000. pp. 177 ISBN 0 745-31? 138 (pbk) L10.99 ISBN 0 745-31712-X (hbk) L35.00

Reviewed by John Newsinger

Eqbal Ahmad died in May 1999 of heart failure, following surgery for cancer of the colon that had only been diagnosed the week before. His sudden death was a shock to friends and comrades throughout the world. This volume of edited discussions with David Barsamian appropriately titled Confronting Empire, is a fitting commemoration. It shows him at his best: an intelligent, committed, sometimes provocative, thinker, a Socialist and a democrat, a determined opponent of Imperialism and supporter of the struggles of `the Wretched of the Earth'. There …