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.
Giovanni Arrighi (1937–2009) was Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include
The Long Twentieth Century,
Adam Smith in Beijing, and, with Beverly Silver,
Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System. His work has appeared in many publications, including
New Left Review—who published<a href="http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2771"> an interview on his life-long intellectual trajectory</a> in March–April 2009, and <a href="http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2814">an obituary</a> in Nov–Dec 2009—and there are more accounts on his <a href="http://www.sympathytree.com/giovanniarrighi1937/">memorial website</a>.
Robin Blackburn teaches at the New School in New York and the University of Essex in the UK. He is the author of many books, including
The Making of New World Slavery,
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery,
Age Shock,
Banking on Death, and
The American Crucible.
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of
American Power and the New Mandarins,
Manufacturing Consent (with Ed Herman),
Deterring Democracy,
Year 501,
World Orders Old and New,
Powers and Prospects,
Profit over People,
The New Military Humanism and
Rogue States.
Régis Debray teaches philosophy at the Université de Lyon-III and is director of the European Institute of the History and Science of Religion. He is the author of many books, including
Media Manifestos,
Critique of Political Reason and
God: An Itinerary, also available from Verso.
Peter Gowan (1946–2009) taught international relations for many years at London Metropolitan University. He was the author of
The Global Gamble and
A Calculus of Power, co-editor of
The Question of Europe, cofounder of the journal
Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, and a longstanding member of the editorial board of
New Left Review—who published <a href="http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2803">an interview with Peter Gowan</a> along with <a href="http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2801">an obituary</a> in Sept–Oct 2009.
Edward W. Said (1935–2003) was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature and of Kings College Cambridge, his celebrated works include
Orientalism,
The End of the Peace Process,
Power, Politics and Culture, and the memoir
Out of Place. He is also the editor, with Christopher Hitchens, of
Blaming the Victims, published by Verso.
New Left Review published <a href="http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2481">an obituary</a> in Nov–Dec 2003.
Ellen Meiksins Wood, for many years Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, is the author of many books, including
Democracy Against Capitalism and, with Verso,
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, The Origin of Capitalism, Peasant-Citizen and Slave, Citizens to Lords, Empire of Capital and
Liberty and Property.
