(Walden Bello is currently the International Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. A member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2009 to 2015, he made the only recorded resignation on principle in the history of Congress owing to principled differences with the administration of former president Benigno Aquino III. He is the author of 23 books, including the forthcoming The Fall of China? Preventing the Next Crash (London: Zed Books, 2019) and State and Counterrevolution: Explorations into the Global Rise of the Right (Halifax: Fernwood, 2019).