“…Since the ’70s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to express themselves politically. …”

“…Photo montage of children from global south and large portrait of African child PO-0838…”

“…Stained glass style illustration of people from the global south Poster advertising UN summit, held in Copenhagen, 6-12 March, 1995 PO-0999…”

“…The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers’ self-organisation is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished conditions. …”

“…"The continuing expansion of neoliberalism and neoliberal economic and social policies into ever more spaces and spheres of life - in the west, the global south, and former 'communist' east - has profound implications for social justice. …”

“…The Handbook covers different types of states in the Global South (from failed to predatory, rentier and developmental), in different kinds of advanced industrial political economies (corporatist, statist, liberal, import substitution industrialization), and in various post-Communist countries (Russia, China, successor states to the USSR, and Eastern Europe). …”

“…This is the first book to compile workers struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North."…”

“…The Left luminaries in Capital and Its Discontents look at potential avenues out of the mess—as well as wrong turns and needless detours—drawing lessons from the history of post-colonial states in the Global South, struggles against imperialism past and present, the eternal pendulum swing of radicalism, the corrosive legacy of postmodernism, and the potentialities of the radical humanist tradition. …”

“…The collection of essays in this book, spanning countries across global South and North, provides an account of strikes and working class resistance in the 21st century. …”

“…Specific case studies dealing with both the Global South and Global North assess the context of local histories and the spatially and temporally located balance of power, while embedding the struggle in a broader picture of resistance and the fight for emancipation."…”

“…While trade unions in the North especially in manufacturing have supported free trade agreements to secure export markets for their companies, trade unions in the Global South oppose these agreements, since they often imply deindustrialisation. …”