An updated edition of the 1989 book from leading radical Tariq Ali. Now includes the rise of Corbyn and Sanders, Trump in the White House, and the future of Europe in the hand of Macron and Merkel.

Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics—including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome—as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.