Critical Political Studies: Debates and Dialogues from the Left, Abigail B. Bakan and Eleanor MacDonald, eds., Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002, pp. xiv, 432

For political observers, scholars, analysts and practitioners on the left the last two decades have been very difficult. With the rise of globalization, the decline of the Keynesian welfare state, the triumph of Thatcherism, Reaganism and Mulroneyism and the decade long dominance of neo-liberalism in Canada, a great deal of creative rethinking has become necessary—not only for the socialist left, but also for social democrats, left liberals and red tories.