Unity on the Global Left by Barry K. Gills, Christopher Chase... - 9780367552251

Unity on the Global LeftCritical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International\nAuthor(s): Barry K. Gills, Christopher Chase-Dunn\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367552251, 978-0367552251\nSynopsis\nThis book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amins call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples. Amins proposal is applauded, criticized and reformulated by these scholar-activists who are all proponents of ways forward toward a more egalitarian world society.\n\nSamir Amin, a leading scholar and co-founder of the world-system tradition, died on August 12, 2018. Just before his death, he published, along with close allies, a call for workers and the people to establish a fifth international to coordinate support for progressive movements. Amin, an Egyptian economist, was an intrepid intellectual and organizer of popular move.