Unity on the Global Left

ISBN-13: 9780367552251 / Miękka / 2023 / 166 str.

Opis

This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin’s call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples.

Spis treści

1. In search of unity: a new politics of solidarity and action for confronting the crisis of global capitalism

Barry Gills and Christopher Chase-Dunn

2. Climate justice and sustained transnational mobilization

Paul Almeida

3. Samir Amin and the challenges of socialist transformation in senile capitalism

Carlos Eduardo Martins

4. The twenty-first century revolutions and internationalism: a world historical perspective

Sahan Savas Karatasli

5. On Samir Amin’s call for a Fifth International

Valentine M. Moghadam

6. The rational kernel within Samir Amin’s mythological shell: the idea of a democratic and pluralist world political party

Heikki Patomäki

7. World revolution or socialism, community by community, in the Anthropocene?

Leslie Sklair

8. Race-class-gender articulation and the Fifth International

Biko Agozino

9. Forging a diagonal instrument for the global left: the vessel

Rebecca Álvarez and Christopher Chase-Dunn

10. Truncated 21st-century trajectories of progressive international solidarity

Patrick Bond

11. What is to be done? The importance of Samir Amin’s answer

Radhika Desai

12. The fifth International: international or global?

Owen Worth

13. Carrying on Samir Amin’s legacy

Boris Kagarlitsky

14. Sweeping the world clean of capitalism: Samir Amin, Abdullah Ocalan and the world of autonomous regions

Andrej Grubacic

15. Needed: a new international for a just transition and against fascism

Francine Mestrum

16. Capital has an Internationale and it is going fascist: time for an international of the global popular classes

William I. Robinson

17. On heeding the lessons of the past and adapting them to the present: a strategy for an effective Fifth International

Michael Tyrala

18. Eurocentrism, state-centrism and sexual self-determination in the construction of a global democratic organization

Teivo Teivainen

19. Rethinking Samir Amin’s legacy and the case for a political organization of the global justice movement

Bonn Juego

20. Building a new international is necessary and urgent

Carlos Serrano Ferreira

21. The kick off

Mamdouh Habashi

O autorze

Barry Gills is Editor in Chief of Globalizations journal and Founding Editor of the Rethinking Globalizations book series (Routledge). He is a member of the Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative (EXALT), and the Peoples Sovereignty Network.

Christopher Chase-Dunn is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California, Riverside, USA. He is the author of Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present (with Bruce Lerro) and Global Struggles and Social Change (with Paul Almeida).