Politics of Empire

Alan Freeman is a cultural economist. He is author The Benn Heresy (Pluto Press, 2014) and The Politics of Empire (Pluto Press, 2004). He is a visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University, and a Research Fellow of Queensland University of Technology and of the University of Kent. He is also a committee member of the Association for Heterodox Economics and a vice-chair of the World Association for Political Economy.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.

'One of neo-liberalism's greatest crimes is to downgrade history, and the history of ideas. This book digs deep into history and, in a timely way, celebrates an intellectual but practical approach to the social, economic and environmental threats posed by globalisation'

• 1. Introduction: World empire – or a world of empires?2. The inequality of nations3. The Crisis of the Globalist Project and the New Economics of George W. Bush4. Imperialist Globalization and the Political Economy of South Asia5. Globalization and the New World Order: The new dynamics of imperialism and war6. The Crisis of Global Capitalism: how it Looks from Latin America7. Facing Global Apartheid8. Unity, diversity and international cooperation: The US war drive and the anti-war movement9. From Global Crisis to Neo-Imperialism: the Case for a Radical AlternativeNotes on contributorsIndex