This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amins call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples.
This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amins call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples. Amins proposal is applauded, criticized and reformulated by these scholar-activists who are all proponents of ways forward toward a more egalitarian world society.
Samir Amin, a leading scholar and co-founder of the world-system tradition, died on August 12, 2018. Just before his death, he published, along with close allies, a call for workers and the people to establish a fifth international to coordinate support for progressive movements. Amin, an Egyptian economist, was an intrepid intellectual and organizer of popular movements whose scholar activism provided inspiration to the global justice movement. The essays in this volume are by other prominent scholar activists who praise, critique and reconfigure Amins proposal in order to help humanity confront the contemporary crisis of global capitalism and move toward a more egalitarian global society.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal, Globalizations.
1. In search of unity: a new politics of solidarity and action for
confronting the crisis of global capitalism
Barry Gills and Christopher Chase-Dunn
2. Climate justice and sustained transnational mobilization
Paul Almeida
3. Samir Amin and the challenges of socialist transformation in senile
capitalism
Carlos Eduardo Martins
4. The twenty-first century revolutions and internationalism: a world
historical perspective
Sahan Savas Karatasli
5. On Samir Amins call for a Fifth International
Valentine M. Moghadam
6. The rational kernel within Samir Amins mythological shell: the idea of a
democratic and pluralist world political party
Heikki Patomäki
7. World revolution or socialism, community by community, in the
Anthropocene?
Leslie Sklair
8. Race-class-gender articulation and the Fifth International
Biko Agozino
9. Forging a diagonal instrument for the global left: the vessel
Rebecca Įlvarez and Christopher Chase-Dunn
10. Truncated 21st-century trajectories of progressive international
solidarity
Patrick Bond
11. What is to be done? The importance of Samir Amins answer
Radhika Desai
12. The fifth International: international or global?
Owen Worth
13. Carrying on Samir Amins legacy
Boris Kagarlitsky
14. Sweeping the world clean of capitalism: Samir Amin, Abdullah Ocalan and
the world of autonomous regions
Andrej Grubacic
15. Needed: a new international for a just transition and against fascism
Francine Mestrum
16. Capital has an Internationale and it is going fascist: time for an
international of the global popular classes
William I. Robinson
17. On heeding the lessons of the past and adapting them to the present: a
strategy for an effective Fifth International
Michael Tyrala
18. Eurocentrism, state-centrism and sexual self-determination in the
construction of a global democratic organization
Teivo Teivainen
19. Rethinking Samir Amins legacy and the case for a political organization
of the global justice movement
Bonn Juego
20. Building a new international is necessary and urgent
Carlos Serrano Ferreira
21. The kick off
Mamdouh Habashi
Barry Gills is Editor in Chief of Globalizations journal and Founding Editor of the Rethinking Globalizations book series (Routledge). He is a member of the Global Extractivisms and Alternatives Initiative (EXALT), and the Peoples Sovereignty Network.
Christopher Chase-Dunn is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California, Riverside, USA. He is the author of Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present (with Bruce Lerro) and Global Struggles and Social Change (with Paul Almeida).
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