Includes bibliographical references.

Islam, Islamisms and the West / Aijaz Ahmad -- Islamism and empire : the incongruous nature of Islamist anti-imperialism / Asef Bayat -- Religion and politics today from a Marxian perspective / Gilbert Achcar -- Understanding Iraq / Sabah Alnasseri -- Israel's colonial siege and the Palestinians / Bashir Abu-Manneh -- The Islamic ethic and the spirit of Turkish capitalism today ./ Yildiz Atasoy -- Transformative possibilities in Latin America / William I. Robinson -- Venezuela today : a 'participative and protagonistic' democracy? / Margarita Lâopez Maya -- Blows and counterblows in Venezuela / Marta Harnecker -- The class struggles in Brazil : the perspective of the MST / Joäao Pedro Stâedile -- All we want is earth : agrarian reform in Bolivia / Wes Enzinna -- On the forms of resistance in Latin America : its 'native' moment / Ana Esther Ceceäna -- Mexico's Oaxaca Commune / Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui -- The contradictions of 'democratic' neoliberalism in Argentina : a new politics from 'below'? / Emilia Castorina -- Counter-revolution against a counter-revolution : Eastern Europe today / G. M. Tamâas -- Resistance to neoliberalism in France / Raghu Krishnan and Adrien Thomas -- Harvest of empire : immigrant workers' struggles in the USA / Kim Moody -- Neoliberalism and the left : a symposium. Marxian and Keynesian critiques of neoliberalism / Alfredo Saad-Filho -- The roots of neoliberalism / Elmar Altvater -- Neoliberalism and the discontented / Gregory Albo.