Peter Waterman is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies and hosts the Global Solidarity Website from the Hague, Netherlands.

"This is a rare book by a rare scholar. Peter Waterman has devoted the last thirty years of his life to studying the ways in which and the degree to which social movements have been truly international. He believes that most of the so called internationalism preached by the movements and analyzed 'by the scholars has really been simply the cumulative story of a series of national movements.' He wishes it were otherwise. . . . As I read the book, I could only cheer Peter Waterman on. He is right on the mark on issue after issue."--Immanuel Wallerstein, Development and Change

• Introduction - beyond Labour internationalism and a socialist utopia; history - whatever happened to socialist and proletariat internationalism?; reconceptualization - the New Labour internationalism; beyond the bureau - the Waterfront internationalism of the Spanish dockers; beyond westocentrism -new world, new unions, New Labour internationalism?; beyond internationalism - women, feminism and global solidarity; conclusion - globalization, civil society, solidarity; postscript - the new global solidarity as personal experience.