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Foreword ON THE BANKS of India's river Narmada, wfiere I write this, a batde is raging between people and development. For the past 17 years, communities here have fought non-violently against the destruction that will be wrought to their homes and livelihoods by the construction of the massive...

Foreword GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE is seen as the biggest threat to the world's environment, with devastating consequences for humans, animals and ecosystems. We are already seeing the first frightening signs of ecosystems under stress, such as the coral reefs, acting as canaries in the coal mine....

In the spring of 1847 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels agreed to join the so-called League of the just [Bund der Gerechten], an offshoot of the earlier League of the Outlaws [Bund der Geächteten], a revolutionary secret society formed in Paris in the 1830s under French Revolutionary influence by...

Foreword I AM DELIGHTED to write this Foreword to what I regard as a very enlightened publication that is attempdng to put more sense than heat into the debate about internadonal migration. It is so important that this book is being published as part of the No-Nonsense Guides series. In recent...