Michael Löwy is emeritus research director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). His books, including On Changing the World and The Politics of Combined and Uneven Development, have been translated into twenty-nine languages.
Olivier Besancenot was a leading member of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) and is one of the founding members of the New Anticapitalist Party in France. He was the LCR candidate for the French presidential election in 2002 and 2007.

An imaginative work of historical fiction places Karl Marx in the thick of the remarkable events of the Paris Commune.