Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, The H-Word, The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers, The Indian Ideology, The New Old World, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions and The Origins of Postmodernity.

He is an editor at New Left Review.

Tariq Ali has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics the most recent of which are The Obama Syndrome, The Extreme Centre and The Dilemmas of Lenin as well as the novels of his Islam Quintet and scripts for the stage and screen.

He is a longstanding member of the editorial committee of New Left Review and lives in London.

Mike has 16 years of experience as a bike journalist and has worked on a variety of cycling magazines.

His speciality is mountain biking and he has worked on Mountain Biking UK, What Mountain Bike, Total Bike, Mountain Bike World and Bikemagic.

Tony Wood lives in New York and writes on Russia and Latin America.

A member of the editorial board of New Left Review, he is previously the author of Chechnya- The Case for Independence (2007), and his writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Guardian, n+1 and The Nation, among other places.

JoAnn Wypijewski is a writer and editor based in New York. From 1982 to 2000, she was an editor at the Nation magazine. She has written for the magazine, as well as for Harper's, CounterPunch, the New York Times Magazine, the Guardian, and other publications. She is on the editorial committee of the New Left Review. She was the co-editor with Kevin Alexander Gray and Jeffrey St. Clair, of Killing Trayvons- An Anthology of American Violence.

Tom Hazeldine was born in Manchester, and is now an editor-at-large at Verso and a contributor to New Left Review. He collaborated on the Verso edition of Gerrard Winstanley's writings, A Common Treasury.

Dylan Riley is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe. He is also an editor at New Left Review.