Table of Contents

Preface
1. Back to the future
2. The New World Disorder
3. The Crisis of Western Ideology
4. Globalisation's Economic Shock
5. The trauma of the Third World
6. Decomposition in the United States
7. The Post Communist World: From Crisis to Catastrophe
8. Visions Old and new
9. The Long Transition to Postmodern Socialism
Notes
Index

About the Author

Roger Burbach is Director of the Center for the Study of the Americas and visiting scholar at the Peace and Conflict Studies Dept, University of California, Berkeley . He has written extensively on Latin America, US politics, and on post-communist societies.Orlando Nunez was a leading strategist in the Nicaraguan Sandinista government in the 1980s and was a member of the Sandinista's Assembly until their defeat. He now he heads CIPRES, a centre promoting sustainable agriculture.Boris Kagarlitsky a founder of the Russian Labor Party and a former member of the Moscow Soviet.

Reviews

'An insightful portrayal of the world at the end of the century which provides ideas and information that can be used to construct an alternative world'
*Eduardo Galeano*

'An excellent antidote to the complacency generated by the mass media and politicians who claim that 'we never had it so good'
*New Renaissance*

'A courageous, at times audacious, reflection on the future of the left. Required reading for the dark times ahead'
*Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz*