Aijaz Ahmad: Modern Islam in Historical Perspective: The Fall of Three EmpiresGilbert Achcar: Religion and Politics Today from a Marxian PerspectiveAsef Bayat: Does Islamism Challenge Imperial Neoliberalism? The case of IranSabbah Alnaseri: Understanding IraqBashir Abu-Manneh: The Transformation of the Palestinian ResistanceYildiz Atasoy: Islamic Capitalism and Welfarism in TurkeyHidayat Greenfield: Kalya's Kalashnikov: Islamic Radicalism in East AsiaAna Esther Cecena: New Forms of Resistance in Latin AmericaMargarita Lopez Maya: Venezuelan Revolution: Participatory Democracy under ChavezJack Hammond: The Resurgence of the Latin American Left: Real or Imagined?William Robinson: Transformative Possibilities in Latin AmericaWes Enzinna: All We Want is the Earth: Bolivia's 'Agrarian Revolution'Joao Pedro Stedile & Atilio Boron: The Landless Movement and Brazilian Politics TodayRichard Roman & Edur Velasco Arregui: The Oaxaca Uprising: Implications for MexicoG.M. Tamas: Fifty Years Later: The Hungarian Revolt of 2006Raghu Krishnan & Adrien Thomas: Resistance to Neoliberalism in FrancePeter Burnham: The Blair Decade: New Labour and BeyondAlfredo Saad Filho & Greg Albo: Understanding Neoliberalism Better - the Better to Resist It.

Our aim in this volume is to offer careful and sober analyses of the political forces that have produced today's 'flashpoints' of reaction to imperialism and neoliberalism, focusing particularly, but not exclusively, on the Middle East and Latin America. Of these two major regions where such 'flashpoints' are concentrated, one is at the forefront of the contradictions of empire, the other of the contradictions of neoliberalism, although the contradictions of imperial power and of neoliberal globalization--and the reactions to them--are, of course, linked in both cases. Our goal has been to offer probing examinations of not only the potential but also the limitations of the politics that underlie these reactions.