Notes on Contributors

Samir Amin (1931-2018) was a leading anti-imperialist and Marxist thinker who developed a framework for understanding class struggle on a global scale. Born in Egypt in 1931, he received his Ph.D. in economics in Paris in 1957. He was director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. Among his best-known works are Unequal Development (1973), Accumulation on A World Scale (1974), Class and Nation, Historically and in the Current Crisis (1980), Eurocentrism (1989), and more recently, Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital and Marx’s Law of Value (2018).

Alexei Anisin is a political-violence scholar based in Prague, Czech Republic. He is a Lecturer in the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy at Anglo-American University. He has had qualitative as well as quantitative research published in Politics, Groups, and Identities, the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, and Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies. alexei.anisin@aauni.edu

Ted Glick has been a progressive activist, organizer and writer since 1968. He was national coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network from 1994-2005 and has been a leader of Beyond Extreme Energy since 2014. Since 2000 he has been writing a twice-monthly column of political and social commentary, Future Hope, available at https://tedglick.com. He expects his latest book, “Burglar for Peace: Lessons Learned from My Years of Nonviolent Resistance During the Vietnam War,” to be published in 2019. indpol@igc.org

Ingrid Hanon is doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Auckland. Her work on Cuban economic and self-management has been published in articles including: “Urban farming and self-management in Cuba” in the Revue internationale de l’économie sociale (2015) and “Workers self-management: Challenging the impossible!” in the book Everything's Fucked: But the Point is to Go Beyond That by the Everything's Fucked Collective (2018). Her current research is on alternatives to wages. ingridhanon@hotmail.com

Miriam Lang, Dr. Phil from the Free University of Berlin, currently works as assistant professor for Social and Global Studies at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador. Her research interests include systemic alternatives, transition studies, intersectionality, political ecology and plural epistemologies. Lang is part of the Latin American Grupo Permanente de Trabajo Sobre Alternativas al Desarrollo as well as of the Global Working Group Beyond Development, both hosted by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. The book, Beyond Development – Alternative visions from Latin America, which she edited with Dunia Mokrani in 2013 has been translated into seven languages. miriam.lang@uasb.edu.ec

Timothy Kerswell is Assistant Professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau, China. He is the author of Worker Cooperatives in India published by Palgrave MacMillan. His research interests include the global division of labor, international class structure, trade unionism and left politics in India and China, labor and migration policy, and Marxist political thought. He previously worked for Australia's Department of Immigration and Citizenship on labor market policy, and for the trade union United Voice as a researcher. timothykerswell@umac.mo

Rémy Herrera, French economist, is a researcher at Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He was executive secretary of the World Forum of Alternatives when Samir Amin was its president. Together they co-authored numerous publications. remyherrera@aol.com

Valentine M. Moghadam is Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Northeastern University, Boston, which she joined in 2012. Previously she directed women’s studies programs at Purdue University and Illinois State University, and was a section chief at UNESCO in Paris and a senior researcher at UNU/WIDER, in Helsinki. Born in Iran, her areas of research include globalization, transnational social movements and feminist networks, economic citizenship, and gender and development in the Middle East and North Africa. She is a board member of Massachusetts Peace Action. v.moghadam@neu.edu

Ronald Paul is an Emeritus Professor of working-class literatures at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His books include The Other Half: British Working-Class Stories (1994), Unruly Nations: A People's History of Britain (1996), and Dissonant Voices: Literature and Society in Britain from Chaucer to the Present Day (1999). His most recent articles deal with the work of Agnes Owens, Tillie Olsen, Lee Hall, Sylvia Townsend Warner, John McGrath and Raymond Williams. ronald.paul@eng.gu.se

Taimur Rahman is Assistant Professor of political science at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. His Class Structure of Pakistan was published by Oxford University Press Pakistan in 2012. The work is arguably one of the few recent studies on classes in Pakistan written from the perspective of Marxist political economy. He is also a well-known grassroots activist. He is currently serving as the General Secretary of the Pakistan Mazdoor Kissan Party which is a Marxist working-class party. Taimur is well-known in South Asia as a musician fronting the band Laal (red) that popularizes progressive poetry and advances socialist causes. 

Peter Ranis is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Graduate Center and York College, CUNY. His 90+ publications include six books; the latest, Cooperatives Confront Capitalism: Challenging the Neo-Liberal Economy (2016) has been translated, with a new prologue, as Cooperativas Frente al Capitalismo: Desafiando a la Economia Neoliberal, (2018). He also published “Eminent Domain: Building Toward Worker Cooperatives in the United States” in Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (2016); “Promoting Cooperatives by the Use of Eminent Domain: Argentina and the United States” in Socialism and Democracy; “Worker Cooperatives: Creating Participatory Socialism in Capitalism and State Socialism” in Democracy at Work online (2012). pranis@york.cuny.edu