Socialist Register

The Socialist Register was founded by Ralph Miliband and John Saville in 1964 as ‘an annual survey of movements and ideas’ from the standpoint of the independent new left. It is currently edited by Leo Panitch, Greg Albo and Vivek Chibber, assisted by an editorial collective of eminent scholars in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Each volume is focused on a topical theme and characterized by the inclusion of relatively long, sustained analyses which cut across intellectual disciplines and geographical boundaries.

The Socialist Register is published annually in October. The complete digital archive of 48 volumes published in English, as well as 3 volumes translated into Spanish, is available here. To order or subscribe now click here.


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Socialist Register 2012: The Crisis and the Left.

This year’s Socialist Register continues its coverage of the economic crisis. It deepens the analysis with essays on:

• the global roots of the crisis;
• the place of the city as a site of capital accumulation and resistance;
• the dismantling of the public sector;
• the fraudulence of neoliberal 'environmentalism';
• the intensification of global austerity.

The full table of contents and a link to download the preface are accessible at the bottom of this page.

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Announcements

 

Interviews with SR 2012 contributors

 

Ed Lewis at New Left Project has interviewed Ursula Huws and Adam Hanieh about their contributions to SR 2012. Find the interviews in the Feature Articles section of the NLP website here.

 
Posted: 2011-12-07 More...
 

Reviews of SR

 

See the recent reviews of SR 2012 in The Spokesman and Marx & Philosophy Review of Books; of SR 2011 in Economic & Political Weekly, The Spokesman and Permanent Revolution; of SR 2010 in Red Pepper and The Spokesman; and of SR 2007 in Economic & Political Weekly. Also check out the Indonesian review of SR 2011 in IndoProgress, translated into English and available here.

 
Posted: 2011-06-21 More...
 
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Vol 48: Socialist Register 2012: The Crisis and the Left

Table of Contents

Articles

Socialist Register 2012 Preface PDF
Leo Panitch, Gregory Albo, Vivek Chibber
The urban roots of financial crises: reclaiming the city for anti-capitalist struggle
David Harvey
Slump, austerity and resistance
David McNally
Crisis as capitalist opportunity: new accumulation through public service commodification
Ursula Huws
Financialization, commodification and carbon: the contradictions of neoliberal climate policy
Larry Lohmann
The new American poor law
Frances Fox Piven
A tale of two crises: labour, capital and restructuring in the US auto industry
Nicole M. Aschoff
Race, class, crisis: the discourse of racial disparity and its analytical discontents
Adolph Reed, Merlin Chowkwanyun
Finance, oil and the Arab uprisings: the global crisis and the Gulf states
Adam Hanieh
The singularities of Latin America
Claudio Katz
Sinomania: global crisis, China’s crisis?
Ho-fung Hung
Eastern Europe: post-communist assets in crisis
Jan Toporowski
When banks cannibalize the state: responses to Ireland’s economic collapse
Peadar Kirby
From subprime farce to Greek tragedy: the crisis dynamics of financially driven capitalism
Elmar Altvater
Default and exit from the eurozone: a radical left strategy
Costas Lapavitsas
Exit or voice? a European strategy of rupture
Michel Husson


ISSN: 0081-0606