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The rise of neo-liberalism has had a devastating impact on the institutions and organizations with which the Left has traditionally been associated. Examining this crisis, this volume focuses on the decline of the trades union movements in the West and the attempts to revive them, contrasting this with the rapid growth of unions in the nations of the developing world and the new industrial countries. The book provides a critique of the post-modernist Left, arguing that the experiences of Eastern Europe and of the Third World demonstrate the need for a universal Left as the only viable alternative to the emerging ""new barbarism"". The state of the contemporary Left is explored, with an assessment of the contributions of the ""Third Left"" and ""Third Socialism"" and the new wave of Left parties and movements such as the German Party of Democratic Socialism, the Workers' Party of Brazil, and the Zapatista of Mexico.

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Kagarlitsky insists that the need for a radical anti-capitalist alternative is now greater than ever....even in this information age....But his argument that globalization has led to renewed militancy by workers around the world demonstrates the continued centrality of the labor movement remains compelling, as does his argument that unions need to move beyond representative functions to focus on encouraging...a broader political and cultural vision -- Anarcho-Syndicalist Review

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Boris Kagarlitsky is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. He is the author of many books, his latest being The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left. In 2023 he was detained under Putin’s regime for speaking out against the war in Ukraine, and in February 2024 he was sentenced to five years in a penal colony. Since then, the Daniel Singer Foundation designated him as the recipient of its 2024 Prisoner of Conscience Award.

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