LEO PANITCH is Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto and author of Renewing Socialism: Democracy, Strategy, and Imagination. COLIN LEYS is Emeritus Professor at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and author of Market-Driven Politics.

1. AIJAZ AHMAD, Modern Islam in Historical Perspective: The Fall of Three Empires; 2. GILBERT ACHCAR, Religion and Politics Today from a Marxian Perspective; 3. ASEF BAYAT, Islamism and Empire; 4. SABBAH ALNASSERI, Understanding Iraq; 5. BASHIR ABU-MANNEH, The Transformation of the Palestinian Resistance; 6. YILDIZ ATASOY, The Islamic Ethic and the Spirit of Turkish Capitalism; 7. HIDAYAT GREENFIELD, Kalya's Kalashnikov: Islamic Radicalism in East Asia; 8. ANA ESTHER CECENA, New Forms of Resistance in Latin America.; 9. MARGARITA LOPEZ MAYA, Venezuelan Revolution? Participatory Democracy under Chavez; 10. JACK HAMMOND, A Leftist Resurgence in Latin America?; 11. WILLIAM ROBINSON, Transformative Possibilities in Latin America; 12. WES ENZINNA, All We Want is the Earth: Bolivia's 'Agrarian Revolution'; 13. JOAO PEDRO STEDILE & ATILIO BORON, The Landless Movement and Brazilian Politics Today; 14. RICHARD ROMAN & EDUR VELASCO ARREGUI, The Oaxaca Uprising: Implications for Mexico; 15. G. M. TAMAS, Fifty Years Later: The Hungarian Revolt of 2006; 16. RAGHU KRISHNAN & ADRIEN THOMAS, Resistance to Neoliberalism in France; 17. PETER BURNHAM, The Blair Decade: New Labour and Beyond; 18. KIM MOODY, Harvest of Empire: The U.S. Immigrant Workers' Struggle; 19. ALFREDO SAAD FILHO, ELMAR ALTVATER & GREG ALBO, Understanding Neoliberalism: A Symposium.

Examines neoliberal order and the resistance movements which it has sparked across the globe. This work offers historical analysis of the role of politics, religion and imperialism in shaping the contemporary crisis in the Middle East and of the prospects for the Left throughout the Islamic world.