WATCH: Socialist Register 2026

Watch below the first-ever live launch of the Socialist Register in New York City, with our new editor, Arun Kundnani, alongside the (relatively new) coeditor of the Socialist Register, Steve Maher, joined by three contributors to this year’s volume: Ibrahim Shikaki, Costas Lapavitsas, and Paul Heideman. Together they considered these and other questions:

–What kind of world order is now emerging?

-Is capitalism entering a terminal crisis, or being violently reconstituted?

-How is American empire being reshaped from Palestine to New York?

-And what possibilities remain for socialist politics in an age of ecological breakdown, geopolitical fracture, and resurgent authoritarianism?

Building upon more than a half century of sustained analysis of the evolving political economy of contemporary capitalism—and in particular the challenges it poses to the left—Socialist Register 2026, Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins puzzles through the rubble left behind after decades of rampant neoliberalism.