*Oil and Class Struggle* is by an international group of radical oil scholars. Their books appears at a time when the second world oil crisis of late 1979 has reminded us how fragile the energy base of the world today still is. The opening chapters deal with general aspects of the oil industry. They make significant theoretical contributions to the central questions of the determinants of world oil prices; and to issues such as the relationship between capital and energy, nationalization of oil resources, and alternative oil exploration strategies for Third World countries. The second half of the book deals with the impact of oil on specific countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Trinidad, Venezuela, and one case study from a new Western oil producer - the province of Alberta in Canada. Critical questions raised include the new dimensions of class formation in the oil-rich states, oil workers' struggles against their governments and the oil companies, government/oil company conflict, and the general issue - vital for more and more Third World states - of whether oil, as a resource with a constantly rising price, opens up viable path of capitalist development. -