 | GLOBAL FLASHPOINTS: SOCIALIST REGISTER 2008
Reactions to Imperialism and Neoliberalism
Edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys
What are the forces at work in opposition to the American Empire? Are such forces, in the Islamic World and in Latin America, reactionary or progressive?
What are the distinguishing features of neoliberalism today? What are its emerging contradictions?
This volume surveys the key flashpoints of resistance today. The main arena of resistance to imperialism is the Middle East. Six essays explore the ambivalent nature of Islamic anti-imperialism, and the West's crucial role in making it so significant, as well as the different forms it takes as a political creed; and they provide particular insight into the relationship between religion and politics today in Iraq, Palestine and Turkey. Resistance to neoliberalism has been seen most clearly in the 'pink tide' in Latin America. Seven essays evaluate the potential - or lack of it - for a 21st century socialism across the region, and especially in Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, and Argentina; while an interview with João-Pedro Stédile, leader of Brazil's Landless People's Movement, provides a unique perspective on class struggles in that country. Three further essays look at recent reactions to neoliberalism and imperialism elsewhere - in Eastern Europe, in France, and in the heart of empire, the United States itself. The volume concludes with a symposium: three leading left economists analyse neoliberalism as a global regime of social and political control, and critically examine the left's response it.
ISBN. 9780850365870
234 x 156 mm. 384 pages
2007 paperback
Published October 2007
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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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 | 2005 - EL IMPERIO RECARGADO Idioma Español
LEO PANITCH y COLIN LEYS, Eds
La edición número 41 de la Socialist Register, es compañera del exitoso volumen de 2004 titulado "El nuevo desafío imperial", que versó sobre la naturaleza del nuevo orden imperial, cómo comprenderlo y explicarlo, sus fortalezas y debilidades. "El imperio recargado" completa esta idea con un análisis de las finanzas, la cultura y la manera en que el nuevo imperialismo está penetrando importantes regiones del mundo: Asia Menor, sudeste asiático, India, China, África, América Latina, Rusia y Europa. Ambos volúmenes están unidos por algunos temas distintivos. Todos los ensayos conciben al capitalismo globalizado y al imperialismo de Estados Unidos (EU), como dos dimensiones de un único fenómeno. Todos reconocen que lo que distingue principalmente a la supremacía de EU en el nuevo orden imperial no es su enorme poder militar y de vigilancia, sino la penetración de este país, sus corporaciones y sus principios en los estados, las economías y los órdenes sociales de los otros principales países capitalistas. Los colaboradores difieren, sin embargo, en varias cuestiones. Una de ellas refiere a la pregunta respecto de hasta qué punto persiste la rivalidad interimperial en el nuevo orden global. Otra, está relacionada al grado en el cual la economía de EU y la estructura financiera global liderada por el mismo país, son estables. Los ensayos realizados por Paul Cammack sobre América Latina y Boris Kagarlitsky sobre Rusia, sugieren que existe una significativa competencia y rivalidad entre EU y Europa, y que esto implica serias restricciones para la supremacía del primero. Los artículos de Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin y Christopher Rude sugieren que la economía global dominada por EU y sus estructuras financieras son inherentemente fuertes y que están acopladas de manera eficiente a una jerarquía financiera global, en cuya estabilidad todos los principales estados capitalistas y sus clases dirigentes tienen una apuesta colectiva crucial. Los ensayos también reflejan diferencias de opinión en la izquierda respecto a la naturaleza de las respuestas al neoliberalismo y a la dominación del país norteamericano. Otro tema fuerte del presente volumen es su foco en la cultura, ampliamente definida. El informe de Varda Burstyn se pregunta hasta qué punto los elementos más fantásticos de las pesadillas imaginadas por Huxley y Orwell han sido ya materializados, o pronto lo serán, en el corazón imperial; el informe de Zhao se refiere al rol jugado por el poder de los medios de comunicación de EU en el viraje al capitalismo en China. En conjunto, ambos volúmenes ofrecen una guía incomparable del nuevo imperialismo y sus contradicciones.
From http://www.fil.com.mx/pres_lib/fichas_05/socia_clac.htm
2005 362 pages paperback
Published in Argentina by CLACSO, made available in the EU by the Merlin Press
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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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 | 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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