When history moves — really moves — it does so in great convulsive jolts. - David McNally

At its heart, this book is about where this new left has come from, and where it might be going.

The fundamental truth about globalization — that it represents freedom for capital and unfreedom for labour — is especially clear where global migrants are concerned.

Behind their fluffy rhetoric about free trade and free markets lurks a hostility toward freedom for ordinary people — and a love affair with police and prisons.