The Global Left in a Multipolar World

Towards a Planetary Politics of Justice and Survival
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-73388-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Innovations in International Affairs

The Global Left in a Multipolar World: Towards a Planetary Politics of Justice and Survival explores how a transformative global left politics might be advanced in the context of the emerging multipolar world order and the urgent climate crisis. The book argues that the era of the purely national left is over. Instead, the twenty first century needs a new global left that will address the critical four elements of class, imperialism, ecology and democracy in a unified way, and that will combine ideas and interventions at a multiplicity of scales from the local to the global. Chapters written by leading left scholars from the global North and the global South explore different aspects of contemporary left thought and practice and articulate different visions of potential global lefts. They offer radical and inspiring suggestions for global left programs that can tackle both the injustices of neoliberal globalisation as well as the new threats from an advancing global right, continued neo-imperialism and the increasingly critical climate-ecological planetary crisis. Taken together, they offer a compelling vision of a global left that seeks justice – for labour, for the global South and for oppressed peoples everywhere – and survival – for everyone on our warming planet – based in and secured by a truly democratic planetary politics.  The Global Left in a Multipolar World injects new energy into left thinking and shows how the left can move from a politics of resistance towards a politics of alternatives. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of global politics, international relations and sociology and to left-wing activists seeking a better world.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freeman, Dena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: Global Lefts and Global Rights in Global Politics Chapter 2. The Twenty First Century Global Left: Forces, Organisation, Challenges and Prospects Part 1 – Class  Chapter 3. ‘Workers of the World Unite’: Then and Now Chapter 4. Workers’ Struggles Across the Globe Chapter 5. Three Cycles of the Global Left and a Call for a New International  Part 2 – Imperialism  Chapter 6. States and Left Internationalism: Challenges and Opportunities for Collective Action from the Global South Chapter 7. China's Role in the Continuation of the Global Left's Ideals in Twenty First Century Chapter 8. BRICS and Global Left Debates: Uni-Polar, Multi-Polar or Non-Polar Politics? Part 3 – Ecology  Chapter 9. Faulty State Sovereignty in the Polycrisis: Arguments for Considering ‘Ecological Sovereignty’ in Left Internationalism Chapter 10. Planetary Socialism: A Left for the Earth Part 4 – Democracy  Chapter 11. The Anarchist Turn in Contemporary Social Movements and What it Means for the Global Left Chapter 12. On the Future of the Left: The Role of World Political Parties

Über Autor(innen)

Dena Freeman is Distinguished Professor of Global Studies at Shanghai University, China. Prior to moving to China, she taught in the Anthropology departments of the London School of Economics, University College London and Cambridge University. She is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Global Democracy: The Key to Global Justice (2022) and Can Globalization Succeed? (2020).