Around the world, the formal structures of capitalist patriarchy - slavery, apartheid, pay inequality - are gradually being dissembled. But what of the informal structures? The unspoken solidarity of countries in the global north that cause them to protect each other's interests at the expense of those of the global south, for example. In this book - part activist-memoir, part detailed economic analysis, John Saul makes apparent the previously unacknowledged global alliances that profoundly shape world politics.