SOCIALIST REGISTER 2023: Capital and Politics
Edited by : Greg Albo , Jacques Bidet , Alfredo Saadfilho
Aakar Books 2023
Language: English
350 Pages
About the Book
The 59th annual volume of theSocialist Registerexamines 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 GrahamandWilliam 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 ChuaandSpencer 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 NgaiandChen 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 MaherandScott 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 PanitchandRafael Khachaturian: Against Pessimism: A Life on the Left Greg Albois a Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto.Alfredo Saad-Filhois Professor of Political Economy and International Developmentat King’s College London, and author of Progressive Policies for Economic Development (2021).Nicole Aschoffis author of The New Prophets of Capital (2015) and The Smartphone Society (2021).