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Compulsory reading for people who refuse to be resigned to the idea that there can be no alternative to our unacceptable society - Daniel Singer
Socialism has always been about democracy, human rights and internationalism... that faith is what has characterized the work of Socialist Register - Tony Benn

LEO PANITCH and COLIN LEYS - Editors
2004: THE NEW IMPERIAL CHALLENGE
What does imperialism mean in the new century? Do we need new concepts to understand it? Who benefits, who suffers? Where? Why?
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LEO PANITCH and COLIN LEYS - Editors
2003: FIGHTING IDENTITIES: Race, Religion And Ethno-Nationalism
Contents: Peter Gowan: The American Campaign for Global Sovereignty; Aziz Al-Azmeh: Postmodern Obscurantism and 'the Muslim Question'; Avishai Ehrlich: Palestine, Global Politics and Israeli Judaism; Susan Woodward: The Political Economy of Ethno-Nationalism in Yugoslavia; Georgi Derluguian: How Soviet Bureaucracy Produced Nationalism and what came of it in Azerbaijan; Pratyush Chandra: Linguistic-Communal Politics and Class Conflict in India; Mahmood Mamdani: Making Sense of Political Violence in Postcolonial Africa; Hugh Roberts: The Algerian Catastrophe: Lessons for the Left; Stephen Castles: The International Politics of Forced Migration; Hans-Georg Betz: Xenophobia, Identity Politics and Exclusionary Populism in Western Europe; Jörg Flecker: The European Right and Working Life- From ordinary miseries to political disasters; Huw Beynon & Lou Kushnick: Cool Britannia or Cruel Britannia? Racism and New Labour; Bill Fletcher Jr. & Fernando Gapasin: The Politics of Labour and Race in the USA; Amory Starr: Is the North American Anti-Globalization Movement Racist? Critical reflections; Stephanie Ross: Is This What Democracy Looks Like? -The politics of the anti-globalization movement in North America; Sergio Baierle: The Porto Alegre Thermidor: Brazil's 'Participatory Budget' at the crossroads; Nancy Leys Stepan: Science and Race: Before and after the Genome Project; John S. Saul: Identifying Class, Classifying Difference 396pp, 233x157mm
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LEO PANITCH and COLIN LEYS - Editors
2002: A WORLD OF CONTRADICTIONS
Timely and critical analysis of what big businesses and their governments want, and of the problems they create. "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, 21.2.2003
Contents: Naomi Klein: Farewell To 'The End Of History': Organization And Vision In Anti-Corporate Movements; André Drainville: Québec City 2001 and The Making Of Transnational Subjects; Gérard Duménil & Dominique Lévy: The Nature and Contradictions of Neoliberalism; Elmar Altvater: The Growth Obsession; David Harvey The Art Of Rent: Globalization, Monopoly and The Commodification of Culture; Graham Murdock & Peter Golding: Digital Possibilities, Market Realities: The Contradictions of Communications Convergence; Reg Whitaker: The Dark Side of Life: Globalization and International Crime; Guglielmo Carchedi: Imperialism, Dollarization and The Euro; Susanne Soederberg: The New International Financial Architecture: Imposed Leadership and 'Emerging Markets'; Paul Cammack: Making Poverty Work; Marta Russell & Ravi Malhotra: Capitalism and Disability; Michael Kidron: The Injured Self; David Miller: Media Power and Class Power: Overplaying Ideology; Pablo Gonzalez Casanova: Negotiated Contradictions; Ellen Wood: Contradictions: Only in Capitalism?
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LEO PANITCH and COLIN LEYS - Editors
2001: WORKING CLASSES, GLOBAL REALITIES
Socialist Register 2001 examines the concept and the reality of class as it effects workers at the beginning of the 21st Century.
"an excellent collection" Bill Fletcher, Against The Current
Contents: Leo Panitch & Colin Leys with Greg Albo & David Coates: Preface; Ursula Huws: The Making of a Cybertariat? Virtual Work in a Real World ; Henry Bernstein: 'The Peasantry' in Global Capitalism: Who, Where and Why?; Beverly J. Silver and Giovanni Arrighi: Workers North and South; Andrew Ross: No-Collar Labour in America's 'New Economy'; Barbara Harriss-White & Nandini Gooptu: Mapping India's World of Unorganized Labour; Patrick Bond, Darlene Miller & Greg Ruiters: The Southern African Working Class: Production, Reproduction and Politics; Steve Jefferys: Western European Trade Unionism at 2000; David Mandel: 'Why is there no revolt?' The Russian Working Class and Labour Movement; Haideh Moghissi & Saeed Rahnema: The Working Class and the Islamic State in Iran ; Huw Beynon & Jorge Ramalho: Democracy and the Organization of Class Struggle in Brazil; Gerard Greenfield: Organizing, Protest and Working Class Self-Activity: Reflections on East Asia; Rohini Hensman: Organizing Against the Odds: Women in India's Informal Sector; Eric Mann: 'A race struggle, a class struggle, a women's struggle all at once': Organizing on the Buses of L.A.; Justin Paulson: Peasant Struggles and International Solidarity: the Case of Chiapas; Judith Adler Hellman: Virtual Chiapas: A Reply to Paulson ; Peter Kwong: The Politics of Labour Migration: Chinese Workers in New York; Brigitte Young: The 'Mistress' and the Maid' in the Globalized Economy; Rosemary Warskett: Feminism's Challenge to Unions in the North: Possibilities and Contradictions; Sam Gindin: Turning Points and Starting Points: Brenner, Left Turbulence and Class Politics; Leo Panitch: Reflections on Strategy for Labour.
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LEO PANITCH and COLIN LEYS - Editors
2000: NECESSARY AND UNNECESSARY UTOPIAS
What is Utopia? An economy that provides everyone's needs? A society which empowers all people? A healthy, peaceful and supportive environment ? Better worlds are both necessary and possible. "This excursion to utopia is full of surprise, inspiration and challenge" Peter Waterman
Contents: Preface; Transcending Pessimism: Rekindling Socialist Imagination: Leo Panitch & Sam Gindin; Minimum Utopia: Ten Theses: Norman Geras; Utopia and its Opposites: Terry Eagleton; On the Necessity of Conceiving the Utopian in a Feminist Fashion: Frigga Haug; Socialized Markets; not Market Socialism: Diane Elson; The Chimera of the Third Way: Alan Zuege; Other Pleasures: The Attractions of Post-consumerism: Kate Soper; Utopian Families: Johanna Brenner; Outbreaks of Democracy: Ricardo Blaug; Real and Virtual Chiapas: Magic Realism and the Left: Judith Adler Hellman; The Centrality of Agriculture: History; Ecology And Feasible Socialism: Colin Duncan; Democratise or Perish: The Health Sciences as a Path for Social Change: Julian Tudor Hart; The Dystopia of our Times: Genetic Technology and Other Afflictions: Varda Burstyn; Warrior Nightmares: Reactionary Populism at the Millennium: Carl Boggs; The Real Meaning of the War Over Kosovo: Peter Gowan.
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LEO PANITCH and COLIN LEYS - Editors
1999: GLOBAL CAPITALISM VS. DEMOCRACY
The essays here not only examine the contradictions of both neo-liberalism and 'progressive competitiveness', but demonstrate that no democracy worth the name can any longer be conceived except in terms of a fundamental break with it.
Contents: Preface; Taking Globalisation Seriously: Hugo Radice; Material World: The Myth of the Weightless Economy: Ursula Huws; Globalisation and the Executive Committee: Reflections on the Contemporary Capitalist State: Konstantinos Tsoukalas; Contradictions of Shareholder Capitalism: Downsizing Jobs; Enlisting Savings; Destabilizing Families: Wally Seccombe; Labour Power and International Competitiveness: A Critique of Ruling Orthodoxies: David Coates; Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The German Model Under the Pressure of Globalisation: Birgit Mahnkopf; East Asia's Tumbling Dominoes: Financial Crises and the Myth of the Regional Model: Mitchell Bernard; State Decay and Democratic Decadence in Latin America: Atilio Boron; Comrades and Investors: The Uncertain Transition in Cuba: Haroldo Dilla; Unstable Futures: Controlling and Creating Risks in International Money: Adam Tickell; Globalisation; Class and the Question of Democracy: Joachim Hirsch; The Challenge for the Left: Reclaiming the State: Boris Kagarlitsky; The Public Sphere and the Media: Market Supremacy versus Democracy: Colin Leys; The Tale that Never Ends: Sheila Rowbotham
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LEO PANITCH and COLIN LEYS - Editors
1998: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO NOW
Essays on the Manifesto's legacy and analysis of working class responses today. It also features brilliant essays on the making of the Manifesto, a reprint of the Manifesto itself and a reproachful letter to Marx from a socialist_feminist.
Contents: Preface , Dear Dr.Marx: A Letter from a Socialist Feminist: Sheila Rowbotham; The Political Legacy of the Manifesto: Colin Leys & Leo Panitch; The Geography of Class Power: David Harvey; Socialism with Sober Senses: Developing Worker's Capacities: Sam Gindin; Unions, Strikes and Class Consciousness Today: Sheila Cohen & Kim Moody; Passages of the Russian and Eastern Europe Left: Peter Gowan; Marx and the Permanent Revolution in France: Backgound to the Communist Manifesto: Bernard Moss; The Communist Manifesto and the Environment: John Bellamy Foster; Remember the Future? The Communist Manifesto as Historical and Cultural Form: Peter Osborne; Seeing is Believing: Marx's Manifesto, Derrida's Apparition: Paul Thomas; The Making of the Manifesto: Rob Beamish; The Communist Manifesto: Marx & Engels.
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LEO PANITCH - Editor
1997: RUTHLESS CRITICISM OF ALL THAT EXISTS
" it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just a little afraid of conflict with the powers that be."-Marx, 1843
Contents: Preface , A World Market of Opportunities? Capitalist Obstacles and Left Economic Policy: Gregory Albo; Financial Crises on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century: Elmar Altvater; Green Imperialism: Pollution, Penitence, Profits: Larry Pratt & Wendy Montgomery; China's Communist Capitalism: The Real World of Market Socialism: Gerard Greenfield & Apo Leong; Taking Stock of a Century of Socialism: George Ross; The Marginality of the American Left: The Legacy of the 1960: Barbara Epstein; Clinton's Liberalism: No Model for the Left: Doug Henwood; The Ideology of 'Family and Community': New Labor Abandons the Welfare State: Joan Smith; The Decline of Spanish Social Democracy 1982-1996: Vicente Navarro; Cardoso's Political Project in Brazil: The Limits of Social Democracy: Paul Cammack; The State as Charade: Political Mobilisation in Today's India: Ananya Mukherjee-Reed; Marxism, Film and Theory: From the Barricades to Postmodernism: Scott Forsyth; Cyborg Fictions: The Cultural Logic of Posthumanism: Scott McCracken; Restoring the Real: Rethinking Social Constructivist Theories of Science: Meera Nanda; Post Colonial Theory and the 'Post-' Condition: Aijaz Ahmed.
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LEO PANITCH - Editor
1996: ARE THERE ALTERNATIVES?
Contents: Preface; The British Labour Party's Transition from Socialist to Capitalism: Colin Leys; Developing Resistance and Resisting 'Development': Reflections from the South African Struggle: Patrick Bond & Mzwanele Mayekiso; The Use and Abuse of Japan as a Progressive Model: Paul Burkett & Martin Hart-Landsberg; A Kinder Road to Hell? Labor and the Politics of Progressive Competitiveness in Australia: John Wiseman; In Defence of Capital Controls: Jim Crotty & Gerald Epstein; The Challenge for Trade Unionism: Sectoral Change, 'Poor Work' and Organising the Unorganised: Anna Pollert; The Tower of Infobabel: Cyberspace as Alternative Universe: Reg Whitaker; 'Sack the Spooks': Do We Need an Internal Security Apparatus?: Peter Gill; Sport, Gender and Politics: Moving Beyond the O.J. Saga: Varda Burstyn; Socialist Hope in an Age of Catastrophe: Norman Geras; Are There Left Alternatives? A Debate from Latin America: Carlos Vilas; Socialists, Social Movements and the Labour Party: A Reply to Hilary Wainwright: Barry Winter; Building New Parties for a Different Kind of Socialism: A Response: Hilary Wainwright
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LEO PANITCH - Editor
1995: WHY NOT CAPITALISM?
Contents: Preface; Ralph Miliband, Socialist Intellectual, 1924-1994: Leo Panitch; A Chronology of the New Left and Its Successors, Or: Who's Old-Fashioned Now?: Ellen Meiksins Wood; Saying No to Capitalism at the Millenium: George Ross; Once More Moving On: Social Movements, Political Representation and the Left: Hilary Wainwright; Globalizing Capitalism and the Rise of Identity Politics: Frances Fox Piven; Europe In Search of a Future Daniel Singer; The Yeltsin Regime: K. S. Karol; The State in the Third World: William Graf; The 'Underclass' and the US Welfare State: Linda Gordon; 'Class War Conservatism': Housing Policy, Homelessness and the 'Underclass': Joan Smith; Capitalist Democracy Revisited: John Schwartzmantel; Parliamentary Socialism Revisited: John Saville ; Harold Laski's Socialism: Ralph Miliband; How it All Began: A Footnote to History: Marion Kozak; Ralph Miliband, A Select Bibliography in English
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RALPH MILIBAND AND LEO PANITCH - Editors
1994: BETWEEN GLOBALISM AND NATIONALISM
Contents: Preface; Thirty Years of The Socialist Register: Ralph Miliband; Edward Thompson, The Communist Party and 1956: John Saville; Richard Rorty and the Righteous Among the Nations: Norman Geras; Globalisation and the State: Leo Panitch; Capitalism and the Nation State in the Dog Days of the Twentieth Century: Manfred Bienefeld; Globalisation and Stagnation: Arthur MacEwan; 'Competitive Austerity' and the Impasse of Capitalist Employment Policy: Gregory Albo; Globalism, Socialism and Democracy in the South African Transition: John S. Saul; The Development of Capitalism in Vietnam: Gerard Greenfield; The Decline of the Left in South East Asia: Kevin Hewison and Gerry Rodan; The Left in Russia: Poul Funder Larsen and David Mandel; Workers and Intellectuals in the German Democratic Republic: Patty Lee Parmalee; Germany's Party of Democratic Socialism: Eric Canepa.
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RALPH MILIBAND AND LEO PANITCH - Editors
1993: REAL PROBLEMS, FALSE SOLUTIONS
Contents: Preface; The Nature of Environment: Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change: David Harvey; Old Themes for New Times: Basildon Revisited: Christopher Norris; Illusions of Freedom: The Regressive Implications of Post-Modernism: Marsha A. Hewitt; False Promises: Anti-Pornography Feminism: Lynne Segal; The Rights Stuff: John Griffith; Why Nationalism?: Michael Löwy; Rethinking the Frelimo State: John S. Saul; After Perestroika: K. S. Karol; The Left and the Decomposition of the Party System in Italy: Stephen Hellman; Why Did the Swedish Model Fail?: Rudolf Meidner; Borders: The New Berlin Walls: Saul Landau; In Defence of Utopia: Daniel Singer.
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RALPH MILIBAND AND LEO PANITCH - Editors
1992: NEW WORLD ORDER?
Contents: Preface; The New World Order and the Socialist Agenda: Leo Panitch and Ralph Miliband; Global Perestroika: Robert W. Cox; Globalization: To What End?: Harry Magdoff; Global but Leaderless? The New Capitalist Order: Andrew Glyn and Bob Sutcliffe; The Collapse of Liberalism: Immanuel Wallerstein; Security and Intelligence in the Post-Cold War World: Reg Whitaker; US Military Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: Michael T. Klare; Europe in a Multi-Polar World: John Palmer; The Emerging World Order and European Change: Stephen Gill; Japan in a New World Order: Makoto Itoh; Africa: The Politics of Failure: Basil Davidson; The Gulf War and the New World Order: Avishai Ehrlich; Ruptured Frontiers: The Transformation of the US-Latin American System: Roger Burbach; Post-Communist Anti-Communism: America's New Ideological Frontiers: Joel Kovel; Hollywood's War on the World: The New World Order as Movie: Scott Forsyth.
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RALPH MILIBAND AND LEO PANITCH - Editors
1991: COMMUNIST REGIMES: The Aftermath
Contents: Preface, The Communist Experience: A Personal Appraisal: John Saville, Perestroika and the Proletariat: Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin; A Future for Socialism in the USSR?: Justin Schwartz; The Struggle for Power in the Soviet Economy: David Mandel; Perestroika and the Neo-Liberal Project: Patrick Flaherty; "Real Socialism" in Historical Perspective: Robert Cox; The Roots of the Present Crisis in the Soviet Economy: Ernest Mandel; Privilegentsia, Property and Power: Daniel Singer; For a Socialist Rebirth: A Soviet View Alexander: Buzgalin and Andrei Kalganov; Marketization and Privatization: the Polish Case: Tadeusz Kowalik; From Where to Where? Reflections on Hungary's Social Revolution: Peter Bihari; Nicaragua: a Revolution that Fell from Grace of the People: Carlos Vilas; Soviet Rehearsal in Yugoslavia? Contradictions of the Socialist Liberal Strategy: Susan Woodward; The Socialist Fetter: A Cautionary Tale: Michael Lebowitz; What Comes After Communist Regimes?: Ralph Miliband
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RALPH MILIBAND AND LEO PANITCH - Editors
1990: THE RETREAT OF THE INTELLECTUALS
Contents: Preface; Seven Types of Obloquy. Travesties of Marxism: Norman Geras; Marxism Today: An Anatomy: John Saville; The Uses and Abuses of 'Civil Society': Ellen Meiksins Wood; Defending the Free World: Terry Eagleton; Postmodernism and the Market: Fredric Jameson; The Eclipse of Materialism: Marxism and the Writing of Social History in the 1980s: Bryan D. Palmer; Statism, New Institutionalism, and Marxism: Paul Cammack; The Welfare State: Towards a Socialist-Feminist Perspective: Linda Gordon ; Intellectuals against the Left: The Case of France: George Ross; Derrida and the Politics of Interpretation: Eleanor MacDonald; Should a Marxist Believe in Marx on Rights?: Amy Bartholomew; Liberal Practicality and the US Left: John Bellamy Foster; Intellectuals and Transnational Capital: Stephen Gill; Why we are Still Socialists and Marxists After All This: Arthur MacEwan; Eulogy beside an Empty Grave: Reflections on the Future of Socialism: Richard Levins; Counter-Hegemonic Struggles: Ralph Miliband.
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RALPH MILIBAND, LEO PANITCH AND JOHN SAVILLE, Eds.
1989: REVOLUTION TODAY. ASPIRATIONS & REALITIES
Contents: Preface, Capitalism, Socialism and Revolution Leo Panitch; Revolution and Democracy in Latin America Carlos M. Vilas ; The Southern African Revolution John S. Saul ; One Revolution or Two? The Iranian Revolution and the Islamic Republic Val Moghadam; 'Revolutionary Reform' in Soviet Factories David Mandel; Obstacles to Reform in Britain Tony Benn; Reflections on Revolution in an Age of Reaction V.G. Kiernan; The Marxist Case for Revolution Today Ernest Mandel ; Our Morals: The Ethics of Revolution Norman Geras; Fatherland or Mother Earth? Nationalism and Internationalism Michael Lowy; Revolution Today: Three Reflections Frieder Otto Wolf; Feminism's Revolutionary Promise: Finding Hope in Hard Times Johanna Brenner; Religion and Revolution: A Brief for the Theology of Liberation Lawrence Littwin; Notes on the Cuban Revolution Saul Landau.
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See also two books on the founding editors of Socialist Register in the following sections: John Saville’s autobiography MEMOIRS FROM THE LEFT, and Michael Newman’s biography of RALPH MILIBAND. Also in this section is an anthology from Socialist Register THE GLOBALIZATION DECADE.
Another Register anthology, on the Labour Party in Britain, PAVING THE THIRD WAY is in the Contemporary Britain section.