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Forthcoming — November 2002
Fighting Identities: Socialist Register 2003
edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

Contributors to this volume include: Aijaz Ahmad, “Fundamentalisms: Religious, National and Imperial”; John S. Saul, “The Marxism of Race, Nationalism and Religion”; Manning Marable, “The Black Reparations Controversy”; Mahmood Mamdani, “Reflections on the Rwanda Genocide”; Bill Fletcher, Jr., “Race and Labor in the United States”; Amory Starr, “Is the Anti-Globalization Movement Racist?”; and Peter Gowan, “American Global Government: Will It Work?”; among others.

A World of Contradictions: Socialist Register 2002
edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

This collection of essays examines social contradictions in the age of globalization in which old antagonisms often appear to be overcome, although new cracks are emerging in the façade of capitalist progress. Where do they occur? Where can they be expected to appear in future? How are they to be grasped in a spirit of sober radicalism, which neither accepts the limits of the present nor overcomes them through wishful thinking alone? What possibilities do they offer for mobilizing resistance? These issues define an agenda which is critical for socialism in our time.

Working Classes, Global Realities: Socialist Register 2001
edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys with Greg Albo and David Coates

This collection of twenty timely and original essays lay the groundwork for a much-needed revival of class analysis. A broad range of working-class issues are addressed including knowledge work and the “cybertariat” in the new economy, feminism and unions, migrant labor, peasant struggles, internationalism, and the impact of unstable, casual, and contingent employment. Other essays examine critically important regional experiences in India, Iran, Russia, Brazil, Southern Africa, and East Asia, as well as Europe and North America.

Necessary and Unnecessary Utopias: Socialist Register 2000
edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

This volume of the SOCIALIST REGISTER points toward a very different way of thinking about the future. While rejecting schematic blueprints, this volume reasserts the need for a bold and revolutionary social imagination aimed at creating saner ways of living and more rational ways of organizing society. Topics covered include work and its structure, democracy and the state, and technology and its social uses.

Global Capitalism Versus Democracy: Socialist Register 1999
edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

Essays in this volume examine the consequences of gloablization in particular spheres: international finance, the media, and the workplace. A number of country and area studies examine the effects of increasing global pressures on particular national and regional economies including Germany, Cuba, Latin America, and East Asia.

The Communist Manifesto Now: Socialist Register 1998
edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

This volume of the SOCIALIST REGISTER uses the occasion of the Communist Manifesto’s anniversary to examine its relevance to contemporary democratic political theory, the labor movement, feminism, the history of the left, environmentalism, and postmodernity.

Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists: Socialist Register 1997
edited by Leo Panitch

This issue of the internationally respected annual takes on, in editor leo panitch's words, “the dynamics, depredations, and contradictions of today’s global capitalism; the abject accomodation to it be erstwhile Communists, Social Democrats, and Liberal; the failed socialist and ‘new left’ movements of the last century; and, not least, the defeatist and confused ‘post’-intellectuals of our time.”

Are There Alternatives?: Socialist Register 1996
edited by Leo Panitch

The 32nd volume of the SOCIALIST REGISTER addresses the central political challenge of our time: how to take full measure of global capitalist economic, political, and cultural power, while resisting the “end of history” claim implicit within the proud capitalist assertion, “There is no alternative.”

Why Not Capitalism?: Socialist Register 1995
edited by Leo Panitch

The 31st volume of the SOCIALIST REGISTER highlights the importance of the development of the left’s capacities to understand and explain the dynamics, contradictions and depredations of contemporary capitalism. To commemorate Ralph Miliband, this volume contains an essay on harold Laski and an account of the birth of the SOCIALIST REGISTER by Marion Kozak.

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