Socialist Register 2019

Socialist Register 2019 PDF

Author: Leo Pantick

Publisher: Leftword Books

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9789380118734

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Since the Great Financial Crisis swept across the world in 2008, there have been few certainties regarding the trajectory of global capitalism, let alone the politics taking hold in individual states. This has now given way to palpable confusion regarding what sense to make of this world in a political conjuncture marked by Donald Trump's 'Make America Great Again' presidency of the United States, on the one hand, and, on the other, Xi Jinping's ambitious agenda in consolidating his position as 'core leader' at the top of the Chinese state.// - Is a major redrawing of the map of global capitalism underway? - Is an unwinding of globalization in train, or will it continue, but with closure to the mobility of labour? - Is there a legitimacy crisis for neoliberalism even while neoliberal practices continue to form state policy? - Are we witnessing an authoritarian mutation of liberal democracy in the 21st century? - Should the strategic issues today be posed in terms of 'socialism versus barbarism redux'?//CONTRIBUTORS: AIJAZ AHMAD - ELMAR ALTVATER - NICOLE ASCHOFF -MARCO BOFFO - PATRICK BOND - ALAN CAFRUNY - BEN FIN - ANA GARCIA- JAYATI GHOSH - SAM GINDIN - ADAM HANIEH - DOUG HENWOOD -RAY KIEL - COLIN LEY - LIN CHU - BIRGIT MAHNKOPF - UMUT OZS - LEOPANITCH - ALFREDO SAAD-FILHO - SEAN KENJI STARRS - DAVID WHYTE

The World Turned Upside Down?

The World Turned Upside Down? PDF

Author: Greg Albo

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2018-12-24

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1583677518

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A World Turned Upside Down? poses two overarching questions for the new period opened by the Trump election and the continued growth of right-wing nationalisms. Is there an unwinding of neoliberal globalization taking place, or will globalization continue to deepen, but still deny the free cross-border movement of labor? Would such an unwinding entail an overall shift in power and accumulation to specific regions of the Global South that might overturn the current world order and foster the disintegration of the varied regional blocs that have formed? These questions are addressed through a series of essays that carefully map the national, class, racial, and gender dimensions of the state, capitalism, and progressive forces today. Sober assessment is crucial for the left to gain its political bearings in this trying period and the uncertainties that lie ahead.

Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living

Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living PDF

Author: Greg Albo

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2019-12-23

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1583678441

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Essays which aim to create a world of agency and justice How can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment? The 2020 edition of the Socialist Register, Beyond Market Dystopia, contains a wealth of incisive essays that entice readers to do just that: to wake up to the cynical, implicitly market-driven concept of human society we have come to accept as everyday reality. Intellectuals and activists such as Michelle Chin, Nancy Fraser, Arun Gupta, and Jeremy Brecher connect with and go beyond classical socialist themes, to combine an analysis of how we are living now with visions and plans for new strategic, programmatic, manifesto-oriented alternative ways of living.

New Polarizations and Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism

New Polarizations and Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism PDF

Author: Greg Albo

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2021-12-27

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1583679375

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The 58th annual volume of the Socialist Register takes up the challenge of exploring how the new polarizations relate to the contradictions that underlie them and how far 'centrist' politics can continue to contain them. Original essays examine the multiplication of antagonistic national, racial, generational, and other identities in the context of growing economic inequality, democratic decline, and the shifting parameters of great power rivalry. Where, how, and by what means can the left move forward?

Searching for Socialism

Searching for Socialism PDF

Author: Leo Panitch

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1788738527

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A new and essential history of the Labour new left from Tony Benn to Jeremy Corbyn. Jeremy Corbyn’s rapid ascent to the leadership of the Labour Party, driven by a groundswell of popular support particularly among the young, was met at the time by a baffled media. Just where did Jeremy Corbyn come from? In Searching for Socialism, Leo Panitch and Colin Leys argue that it is only by understanding Corbyn’s roots in the Bennite Labour New Left’s long struggle to transcend the limits of “parliamentary socialism” and democratise the party, as a precondition for democratising the state, can you understand his surge to become leader of the party. Closely analyzing the forces inside the party aligned against Corbyn’s leadership, Panitch and Leys explain what happened between the validation of the Corbyn project in the 2017 election, while advancing an ambitious programme of democratic socialist measures unmatched anywhere since the 1970s, and the electoral defeat amidst the Brexit conjuncture of 2019. They argue that while this defeat marked the farthest point to which the generation formed in the 1970s was able to carry the Labour new left project, it seems unlikely that the new generation of activists will quickly see any other way forward than continuing the struggle inside the Labour Party, so as to fundamentally change it. In the face of the contradictions being generated by twenty-first-century capitalism, and the need for discovering and developing new political forms adequate to addressing them, this book is required reading for democratic socialists, not just in Britain but everywhere.

Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living

Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living PDF

Author: Leo Panitch

Publisher: Monthly Review Press

Published: 2020-12-29

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1583678832

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Essays that explore new ways of living with technological change Every year since 1964, the Socialist Register has offered a fascinating survey of movements and ideas from the independent new left. This year's edition asks readers to explore just how we need to live with new technologies. Essays in this 57th Socialist Register reveal the contradictions and dislocations of technological change in the twenty-first century. And they explore alternative ways of living: from artificial intelligence (AI) to the arts, from transportation to fashion, from environmental science to economic planning. Greg Albo - Post-capitalism: Alternatives or detours? Nicole Aschoff and Pankaj Mahta - AI-deology: Science, capitalism and the dream of a ‘people’s AI’ Hugo Radice - There is nothing artificial about AI: Labour, class, utopia, socialism Larry Lohman - Interpretation machines: Contradictions of digital mechanization in twenty-first century capitalism Robin Hahnel - Democratic socialist planning: Against, with and beyond the new technologies Tanner Mirrlees - Platform socialists in the age of digital capitalism Derek Hrynyshyn – Imagining information socialism Bryan Palmer - Capitalism and the clock: Time’s meaning in the struggle for socialism Sean Sweeney and John Treat - Shifting gears: Labour strategies for low-carbon public transit mobility Adam Greenfield - Smart cities, technological traps, democratic possibilities Christoph Hermann - The consequences of commodification: Contours of a post-capitalist society Joan Sangster – The surveillance of service labour: Conditions and possibilities of resistance Jeronimo Montero Bressan - Beyond neoliberal fashion: Imagining clothing production as a human need Massimiliano Mollona - Art/Commons: Art collectives and the post-capitalist imagination Ingar Solty – The world of tomorrow: Scenarios for our future between demise and hope

The Politics of the Right

The Politics of the Right PDF

Author: Leo Panitch

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1583675744

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Today the Left faces new challenges from political forces amassing on the radical right. The 52nd volume of the Socialist Register presents a serious calibration and a careful political mapping of these forces. It addresses pivotal questions on the reordering of the new right. These essays - very broad in terms of themes and places - speak to the global challenges the new right poses for the left at this historical moment. * What is the nature of the right's populism, nationalism and militarism? * What is the social base and organizational strength and range of far right political forces? * To what extent are they influencing mainstream parties and opinion? * How have they penetrated state institutions?* What role do state security services and police forces play?* Does our political situation today require comparison with 1930s Fascism? * How should the left respond to defend democratic and human rights?

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