Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
  • Introduction: the enigma of socialism / Thomas Muhr
  • Part I: Politics, principles, processes
  • Twenty-first century socialism : a political and pedagogical act : some keys to understanding / Eduardo Leal Chacón
  • Counter-globalisation and a revolutionary politics of place and space : the transnational construction of the ALBA
  • TCP in Nicaragua, El Salvador and the USA / Thomas Muhr
  • The ALBA
  • TCP council of social movements : a double-turn in counter-hegemony / Jennifer L. Martinez
  • Rethinking legitimacy in international law : the ALBA
  • TCP's place for justice / Mohsen Al Attar & Edward Miller
  • Part II: Political Economy
  • Cuban socialism : inspiration to the ALBA
  • TCP / Helen Yaffe
  • The new strategic regionalism in the ALBA
  • TCP : alternatives to the food and energy crises / Maribel Aponte-García
  • The SUCRE and the ALBA
  • TCP monetary union : responses from the South to the global crisis / Antulio Rosales and Manuel Cerezal
  • Part III: Culture, education, the environment
  • Cultural policy and 21st century socialism / Hazel Marsh
  • Post-secularity and political hope in 21st century socialism / Lucia Michelutti
  • The politics of the audiovisual cultural revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean / Libia Villazana
  • From the local to the regional and back : Bolivia's politics of decolonizing education in the context of the ALBA
  • TCP / Mieke Lopes Cardozo and Jesse A.S. Strauss
  • Global struggles for climate justice and the ALBA
  • TCP council of social movements : an activist perspective / Alice Cutler and Yasmine Brien