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 | TELLING THE TRUTH
Socialist Register 2006
Edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys
How does power shape ideas and ideologies today? Who controls the information on which public discussion rests? How is power used to exclude critical thought in politics, the media, universities, state policy-making? Has neo-liberal globalisation introduced a new era of state duplicity, corporate manipulation of truth and intellectual conformity? Are we entering a new age of unreason?
The Socialist Register 2006 examines contemporary public debate and policy-making, scientific and social scientific research, statistics, the media, the business 'community', the World Bank, humanitarian 'aid', the role of the theatre. What standards of intellectual integrity exist today? After postmodernism, is it still possible for truth to prevail over half-truths and lies?
'Socialist Register is required reading on its publication every year. This volume continues that tradition' Variant
234 x 156 mm. 304 pp.
ISBN. 0850365600
2005 Paperback
Rights: US - Monthly Review Press; Canada - Fernwood Publishing; India - Leftword; UK & Rest of World - The Merlin Press.
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Price: £14.95
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 | THE NEW IMPERIAL CHALLENGE
Socialist Register 2004
Edited by Leo Panitch & Colin Leys
What does imperialism mean in the new century?
Do we need new concepts to understand it?
Who benefits, who suffers? Where? Why?
"As Rosa Luxemburg observed, it is 'often hard to determine, within the tangle of violence and contests for power, the stern laws of economic process.' This is what Panitch, Gindin, Harvey, Gowan, and their colleagues on the Marxist left are trying to do, along with a few non-Marxist mavericks like Todd. For this, whatever our other differences, the rest of us owe them much gratitude" George Scialabba, Dissent, Spring 2004
ISBN. 085036535X
234 x 156 mm. 290 pp.
2003 Paperback
Rights: US - Monthly Review Press; Canada - Fernwood Publishing; India - K.P. Bagchi; UK & Rest of World - Merlin Press
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 | FIGHTING IDENTITIES: RACE, RELIGION AND ETHNO-NATIONALISM
Socialist Register 2003
Edited by Leo Panitch & Colin Leys
'These contributions... show a left able to avoid both economic reductionism and post-modern identity-fetishism in confronting and understanding a world of mounting anxiety, instability and violence'. Stephen Marks, Tribune.
'There is a refreshing diversity of contexts and approaches tackled in this collection, from discussions of the participatory budgets in Porto Allegre, through communal politics and class conflict in India to exclusionary populisms in Western Europe.' Political Geography.
'I would therefore have no hesitation in saying that this comprehensive collection of essays should be required reading for students of and actors in, contemporary inter-religious debate.' Steve Alston, Interreligious Insight, January 2004.
234 x 156 mm. 396 pp.
ISBN. 0850365082
2002 Paperback
Rights: USA: Monthly Review Press, Canada: Fernwood, India: KP Bagchi; Europe & Rest of the world: Merlin Press.
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Price: £16.95
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 | WORKING CLASSES, GLOBAL REALITIES
Socialist Register 2001
Edited by Leo Panitch & Colin Leys
The Socialist Register 2001 looks at class realities and the lives of workers in the new century.
Twenty original and wide-ranging essays lay the grounds for a much-needed revival of class analysis, exploring such themes as the making of a 'cybertariat', the spread of unstable, casual, and contingent employment, the changes women have wrought in the working classes, the relationship between workers 'north' and 'south', the persistence of 'peasantries', the growing significance of migrant workers, and new strategies for change which can transcend the limits of old forms of class organization and politics.
Regionally-focused essays address the challenges faced by workers and labour movements in India, Iran, Russia, Brazil, Southern Africa and East Asia, as well as Europe and North America.
'An excellent collection'. Bill Fletcher, Against The Current
ISBN. 0850364906
234 x 156 mm. 403 pp.
Rights: USA: Monthly Review Press, Canada: Fernwood, India: KP Bagchi; Europe & Rest of world - Merlin Press.
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