Capitalism and Politics: Socialist Register 2023

The 59th annual volume of the Socialist Register examines the growth of corporate power and other important organizational trends in global capitalism. Rejecting such notions as “stakeholder capitalism,” it reviews the organization and strategies of unions and the left as it searches for new routes to socialism.

CONTENTS

Adam Hanieh: World Oil: Contemporary Transformations in Ownership and Control

Nicolas Graham and William K. Carroll: Climate Breakdown: From Fossil Capitalism to Climate Capitalism (and Beyond?)

Rafeef Ziadah: Logistical Landscapes: Corporate Power and Capital in the Maritime Industry

Patrick Bond: Multilateralism at a Crossroads: Vaccine Apartheid, Climate Wars, Geopolitical Turmoil

Stephen F. Diamond: The ‘Corporate Governance’ Myth

Charmaine Chua and Spencer Cox: Battling the Behemoth: Amazon and the Rise of America’s New Working Class

Kyle Bailey: The Illusions of ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’: The Case of Unilever

Richard Saunders: Transnational Capital and Regulating African Extractives: Zimbabwe’s Blood Diamonds

Minqi Li: From ‘996’ to ‘Lying Flat’: China’s Regime of Accumulation

Pun Ngai and Chen Peier: Infrastructural Capitalism: High-Speed Rail and Class Conflict in China

Armando Boito: Political Divisions and Neo-Fascism in Brazil

LEO PANITCH AND THE SOCIALIST CHALLENGE

Stephen Maher and Scott M. Aquanno: Capitalist Restructuring, State Transformation: Leo Panitch and Capitalism Today

Panagiotis Sotiris: Mass Parties, Dual Power, and Questions of Strategy: A Dialogue with Leo Panitch

Madeleine Davis: Leo Panitch on British Labourism and the Prospects for a ‘Labour New Left’

Leo Panitch and Rafael Khachaturian: Against Pessimism: A Life on the Left

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Greg Albo is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto. Alfredo Saad-Filho is Professor of Political Economy and International Development at King’s College London, and author of Progressive Policies for Economic Development (2021). Nicole Aschoff is author of The New Prophets of Capital (2015) and The Smartphone Society (2021).

To read some excerpts, click here. And you can watch last year’s MR Conversations: Socialist Register 2023, below…