Global flashpoints : reactions to imperialism and neoliberalism / edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys. - London : Merlin Press, 2007 - xiii, 362 p. ; 24 cm. - Socialist register (London, England) ; 2008 .

Includes bibliographical references.

Islam, Islamisms and the West / Aijaz Ahmad -- Islamism and empire : the incongruous nature of Islamist anti-imperialism / Asef Bayat -- Re ligion and politics today from a Marxian perspective / Gilbert Achcar - - Understanding Iraq / Sabah Alnasseri -- Israel's colonial siege and t he Palestinians / Bashir Abu-Manneh -- The Islamic ethic and the spirit of Turkish capitalism today ./ Yildiz Atasoy -- Transformative possibi lities in Latin America / William I. Robinson -- Venezuela today : a 'p articipative and protagonistic' democracy? / Margarita López Maya -- B lows and counterblows in Venezuela / Marta Harnecker -- The class strug gles in Brazil : the perspective of the MST / João Pedro Stédile -- A ll we want is earth : agrarian reform in Bolivia / Wes Enzinna -- On th e forms of resistance in Latin America : its 'native' moment / Ana Esth er Ceceña -- Mexico's Oaxaca Commune / Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui -- The contradictions of 'democratic' neoliberalism in Argentin a : a new politics from 'below'? / Emilia Castorina -- Counter-revoluti on against a counter-revolution : Eastern Europe today / G. M. Tamás - - Resistance to neoliberalism in France / Raghu Krishnan and Adrien Tho mas -- Harvest of empire : immigrant workers' struggles in the USA / Ki m Moody -- Neoliberalism and the left : a symposium. Marxian and Keynes ian critiques of neoliberalism / Alfredo Saad-Filho -- The roots of neo liberalism / Elmar Altvater -- Neoliberalism and the discontented / Gre gory Albo.

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Imperialism.
World politics-- 21st century.
International economic relations.
Neoliberalism.

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