Approaching his ninth decade, Walden Bello seems only to be accelerating his work.
In Deglobalization he laid out an alternative path which would refocus production away from exports and towards domestic needs, replace competition with cooperation and subordinate the market to social need. The last two decades have more than vindicated him. Yet Global Battlefields is the memoir which Bello was reluctant to write. ‘Why dispense advice to the young when your generation lost the struggle?’ he asks.
