[Correspondence] Global health: dying from failure or fulfilment?

Richard Horton asks whether global health can recover its lost radicalism, referring to Saul Alinsky's Reveille for Radicals.1 Alinsky's ideas also reached Japan, where the book was translated and published in 1972.2 This Japanese translation arrived at precisely a moment when questions of citizen participation, organisation, and power had unusual resonance in Japan amid growing citizen movements against industrial pollution and other social problems.