Dissidents of the International Left. Andy Heintz

      Andy Heintz is a freelance writer based in the US Midwest. His work has been published in numerous progressive media outlets around the world, including New Internationalist, Foreign Policy in Focus, The Wire, Common Dreams, Tikkun, Culture Project and New Politics. He is also studying for a Masters in addictions counselling.

       Acknowledgements

      I want to thank my supportive and talented wife Sara Jordan-Heintz for giving me the love, support and time to work on this book for four years. Without my wife’s love and support, I would never have had the self-esteem or confidence to take on this task.

      I also want to thank my parents Tom and Ellie Heintz for being amazing role models and sticking with me during good and bad times. Thanks also go to my spirited and supportive older brother Erik Heintz and my grandma Jo Thoele for being the embodiment of what it means to be an empathetic person. Special thanks to my father-in-law Larry Jordan, a veteran journalist who played an integral role in helping me enlarge pictures, and my mother-in-law Julie for showing by example what it means to be classy and hard working.

      I’m grateful to the New Internationalist, especially editor Chris Brazier, designer Juha Sorsa and marketing manager Dan Raymond-Baker, for believing in this project and working long hours to help me finish it. I also want to thank: Carrie Campbell for all the hard work she put into translating many of my interviews with leftwing figures from Latin America from Spanish to English and childhood friend Kevin Colston for introducing me to Tina Hwayoon Kim, who translated my interview with Lee Sang Yong. Other people who translated interviews from Spanish to English, or helped me find translators, include Joa LaVille, Jodie Bowden-Fuentes, Alexis Acosta, Felipe Albuquerque, Kimberly Brouhard, Joe Henry, Mayra de Catalan and Luis Roman. In addition, I’m indebted to Marieme Helie Lucas, Bill Weinberg, Maryam Namazie, Noam Chomsky, Gina Vargas, Ana Cofino, Alejandro Velasco, Sarah Eltantawi, Sodfa Daaji and Sonia Correa for helping me get in touch with interviewees.

      Some of the interview material in this book originally appeared in:

      New Internationalist: Noam Chomsky; Kwame Anthony Appiah; Pervez Hoodbhoy

      CounterVortex: Teesta Setelvad; Moon Nay Li

      Foreign Policy in Focus: Sokeel Park; Bridget Conley

      Workers’ Liberty: Meredith Tax

      Balkan Witness: Bill Weinberg

      New Arab: Robin Yassin-Kassab; Gideon Levy

      Muftah: Yassin al-Haj Saleh

      Al-Jumhuriya: Yassin al-Haj Saleh

      Secularism is a women’s issue: Diep Saeeda; Marieme Helie-Lucas; Anissa Helie; Houzan Mahmoud; Hawzhin Azeez; Fatou Sow; Maryam Namazie

      Europe Solidaire: Harsh Kapoor; Predrag Kojovic; Janet Biehl.

       DISSIDENTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEFT

       Kwame Anthony Appiah, Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Anabel Hernández, Malalai Joya, George Monbiot, Meredith Tax and 70 other leftwing thinkers and activists from around the world. Their own views, their own words.

       INTERVIEWS BY ANDY HEINTZ

       New Internationalist

       Dissidents of the International Left

      First published in 2019 by

      New Internationalist Publications Ltd

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      The interview with Amartya Sen was extracted, with the permission of Mr Sen, from passages in his books Identity and Violence (WW Norton, 2006), On Ethics & Economics (Blackwell, 1987) and Development As Freedom (Random House, 1999).

      The interview with Mahmood Mamdani was extracted, with the permission of Mr Mamdani, from his book Define and Rule: Native as Political (Harvard University Press, 2015) and his article ‘Settler Colonialism: Then and Now,’ Critical Inquiry 41 (3), 2015.

      Editor: Chris Brazier

      Design: Juha Sorsa

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