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Openings and Closures: Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads
Since the 2016 upsurge in enthusiasm for electoral organizing and party-building, the terrain has shifted. It was not so long ago that a new wave of democratic socialist organizing exploded onto the...
A New Global Geometry?
Scrutinizes possibilities for an equalised global order, in light of recent conflicts between the world’s major powersThe “post-Cold War era is definitively over,” asserted US President Joe Biden...
Capital and Politics
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,”...
New Polarizations and Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism
Takes the buzzword "polarization" as its point of departure to describe the vast, and ever-growing economic inequality worldwide"Polarization" is a word commonly used by everyone from mainstream journalists...
Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living
Essays that explore new ways of living with technological changeEvery year since 1964, the Socialist Register has offered a fascinating survey of movements and ideasfrom the independent new left. This...
Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living
Essays which aim to create a world of agency and justiceHow can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment? The 2020 edition of the Socialist Register, Beyond...
Transforming Classes
For more than half a century, the Socialist Register has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers from around the globe to address the pressing issues of our time. Founded by Ralph Miliband and...
Rethinking Revolution
One hundred years ago, “October 1917” galvanized leftists and oppressed peoples around the globe, and became the lodestar for 20th century politics. Today, the left needs to reckon with this legacy—and...
The World Turned Upside Down?
A World Turned Upside Down? poses two overarching questions for the new period opened by the Trump election and the continued growth of right-wing nationalisms. Is there an unwinding of neoliberal globalization...
The Politics of the Right
Today the Left faces new challenges from political forces amassing on the radical right. The 52nd volume of the Socialist Register presents a serious calibration and a careful political mapping of these...
A World of Contradictions
Radical politics have been defined in modern times-and distinguished from earlier traditions of protest-by the idea that economic, social and political structures are contradictory. Systems of exploitation...
The Crisis This Time
The global economic crisis that closed the first decade of the twenty-first century has demonstrated that the contradictions of capitalism cannot be overcome. The challenge for socialist analysis is...
Morbid Symptoms
Morbid Symptoms sees health as a major field of political economy, one that focuses on the struggle between commercial forces seeking to make it into a field of profit, and popular forces fighting to...