Socialist Register: Working Classes, Global Realities

Politics & Social Sciences

Leo Panitch

Social Sciences

The Merlin Press Ltd.

Socialist Register 2009: Violence Today: Actually-existing Barbarism?: Reflections on Violence Today - Actually-existing Barbarism?

Politics & Government

Registering Class: Registering Class The Remaking of Class

The 50th volume of the Socialist Register is dedicated to the theme of 'registering class' in the light of the spread and deepening of capitalist social relations around the globe. Today's economic crisis has been used to extend the class struggle from above while many resistances have been explicitly cast in terms of class struggles from below. This volume addresses how capitalist classes are reorganizing as well as the structure and composition of working classes in the 21st century.

A survey of the political economy of health. Morbid Symptoms focuses on the economic, social and political determinants of health under global capitalism, and on health care as an object of struggle between commercial forces seeking to make it into a field of profit, and popular forces fighting to keep it - or make it - a public service with equal access for all. Contributors survey structures of power and forces for change in national health care systems - from the UK, Germany and the USA to India, China, Sub-Saharan Africa and Cuba. They examine the impact of neo-liberal hegemony on the health industry, the WTO and the WHO; they consider key issues of international health policy: the marketisation of public health service HIV/AIDS in Africa; the control of medical research and training; the misuse of scientific data for commercial gain; the mistreatment of mental illness, the food industry's production of obesity and hunger, and the turning of genes into commodities.

Socialist Register: 2010: Health Under Capitalism: Morbid Symptoms

Business & Money

Colin Leys

Industries

Merlin Press Ltd

<p>The word 'polarization' is on the lips of every commentator today, from mainstream journalists to the left, but the significance of this widely recognised phenomenon needs far more scrutiny than it has had. The 58th volume of the Socialist Register takes up the challenge of exploring how the new polarisations relate to the contradictions that underlie them, and how far 'centrist' politics can continue to contain them. Original essays examine the multiplication of polarised national, racial, generational and other identities in the context of growing inequality in income and wealth, new forms of regional and urban antagonism, 'vaccine nationalism', and the shifting parameters of great power rivalry.</p>

New Polarizations and Old Contradictions: The Crisis: Socialist Register 2022: 58

A World of Contradictions: Socialist Register 2002

International

Fernwood Publishing

Global Flashpoint: Reactions to Imperialism and Neoliberalism

Literature & Fiction

Left Word Books

<p>About the Author      <DIV>Leo Panitch is the Canada research chair of comparative political economy at York University. He is the coauthor of Global Capitalism and American Empire. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.</DIV>      Product Description      <DIV><DIV>Intellectual and engaging, this collection of political essays examines the failures of socialism in the 20th century with candor, vigorously exploring the nature of global capitalism and offering a vision of a reinvigorated socialism that ambitiously counters weakening pessimism. An outspoken perspective on modern political systems, this book revitalizes socialist thought and rethinks the socialist practice toward a realistic utopia.</DIV></DIV>      Review      <DIV><DIV>"A wonderful writer who bridges the disjuncture between theory and political praxis. This is an important book in both scholarly and political terms."  John C. Berg, professor, Suffolk University</DIV></DIV> --John C. Berg, professor, Suffolk University</DIV></DIV><DIV><DIV>"Panitch's work is consistently characterized by intelligence, rigor, and commitment. A highly original contribution."  David Abraham, professor, University of Miami</DIV></DIV> --David Abraham, professor, University of Miami</DIV></DIV><DIV><DIV>"The best thing I've read on the revolution/reform issue."  John Manley, professor, Stanford University</DIV></DIV> --John Manley, professor, Stanford University</DIV></DIV></p>

Renewing Socialism: Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination

Aakar Books

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