Socialist Register 1999
1999: Global Capitalism vs. Democracy

Leo Panitch & Colin Leys, eds.

One of the hallmarks of The Socialist Register has been its critique of the illusions and contradictions that have attended capitalism's triumphal global march over the last two decades. This new volume, completed amidst general recognition that 'globalisation' has entered an era of global crisis, takes the Register's distinctive analysis further. The essays here not only examine the contradictions of both neo-liberalism and 'progressive competitiveness' amidst the changing contours of global capitalism at the end of the century, but demonstrate that no democracy worth the name can any longer be conceived except in terms of a fundamental break with it.

Contents
(Essays available below)

Preface

Taking Globalisation Seriously
by Hugo Radice

Material World: The Myth of the Weightless Economy
by Ursula Huws

Globalisation and the Executive Committee: Reflections on the Contemporary Capitalist State
by Konstantinos Tsoukalas

Contradictions of Shareholder Capitalism: Downsizing Jobs, Enlisting Savings, Destabilizing Families
by Wally Seccombe

Labour Power and International Competitiveness: A Critique of Ruling Orthodoxies
by David Coates

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The German Model Under the Pressure of Globalisation
by Birgit Mahnkopf

East Asia's Tumbling Dominoes: Financial Crises and the Myth of the Regional Model
by Mitchell Bernard

State Decay and Democratic Decadence in Latin America
by Atilio Boron

Comrades and Investors: The Uncertain Transition in Cuba
by Haroldo Dilla

Unstable Futures: Controlling and Creating Risks in International Money
by Adam Tickell

Globalisation, Class and the Question of Democracy
by Joachim Hirsch

The Challenge for the Left: Reclaiming the State
by Boris Kagarlitsky

The Public Sphere and the Media: Market Supremacy versus Democracy
by Colin Leys

The Tale that Never Ends
by Sheila Rowbotham