The Socialist Register was founded by Ralph Miliband and John Saville in 1964 as ‘an annual survey of movements and ideas’ from the standpoint of the independent new left. It is currently edited by Greg Albo, Nicole Aschoff and Alfredo Saad-Filho, assisted by an editorial collective of eminent scholars in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Each volume is focused on a topical theme and characterized by the inclusion of relatively long, sustained analyses which cut across intellectual disciplines and geographical boundaries.

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2022-11-17

Read some reviews of Socialist Register volumes:  of SR 2023 in The Bullet; of SR 2022 in Labour Hub, Monthly Review, Counterfire and Labour Hub; of SR 2021 in Science & Society, Counterfire and Worker's Liberty; of SR 2020 in Science & Society, Counterfire and Morning Star; of SR 2019 in Counterfire and Race & Class; of SR 2018 in Counterfire, Chartist and MBR Bookwatch; of SR 2017 in Capital & Class, Counterfire, Truthout, Midwest Book Review, Chartist and Socialist Review; of SR 2016 in Race & Class, Counterfire, People's World and The Spokesman; of SR 2015 in International Socialism and Counterfire; of SR 2014 in International Socialist Review, International Socialism, The Spokesman, as well as at Counterfire (part 1 and part 2); of SR 2013 at Counterfire as well as in The Spokesman, Red Pepper, Against the Current and the Swedish journal, Arena; of SR 2012 in The Caravan, The Spokesman and Marx & Philosophy Review of Books; of both SR 2012 and SR 2011 in Teoria politica; of SR 2011 in Labour/Le Travail, Economic & Political Weekly, The Spokesman, Permanent Revolution, and IndoProgress (translated into English here); and of SR 2010 in Red Pepper and The Spokesman.

Current Issue

Vol. 59: Socialist Register 2023: Capital and Politics

The 59th annual volume of the Socialist Register offers a careful political assessment of the organization and practices of the modern corporation that underpin the parameters of power in capitalist societies.

Original essays address the mythologies of 'stakeholder' governance beloved by liberal reformers, the renewal of financial capital since the great recession, the continued centrality of the oil and extractive sectors to the world market, and the global logistics coordinating the circulation of capital. The volume also looks at new forms of worker organizing to match the new ways value is being produced and circulated, notably in key firms like Amazon and in central zones of world capitalism in China, the US, and Brazil.

A special section honours and appraises the contribution of Leo Panitch to socialist analysis and strategy today.

Published: 2022-11-17

Articles

Socialist Register 2023 Preface

Greg Albo, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Nicole Aschoff
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World oil: Contemporary transformations in ownership and control

Adam Hanieh
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Climate breakdown: From fossil capitalism to climate capitalism (and beyond?)

Nicolas Graham, William Carroll
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Logistical landscapes: Corporate power and capital in the maritime industry

Rafeef Ziadah
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Multilateralism at a crossroads: Vaccine apartheid, climate wars, geopolitical turmoil

Patrick Bond
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The ‘corporate governance’ myth

Stephen Diamond
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Battling the behemoth: Amazon and the rise of America’s new working class

Charmaine Chua, Spencer Cox
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The illusions of ‘stakeholder capitalism’: The case of Unilever

Kyle Bailey
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Transnational capital and regulating African extractives: Zimbabwe’s blood diamonds

Richard Saunders
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From ‘996’ to ‘lying flat’: China’s regime of accumulation

Minqi Li
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Infrastructural capitalism: High-speed rail and class conflict in China

Pun Ngai, Chen Peier
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Political divisions and neo-fascism in Brazil

Armando Boito
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Capitalist restructuring, state transformation: Leo Panitch and capitalism today

Stephen Maher, Scott Aquanno
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Mass parties, dual power, and questions of strategy: A dialogue with Leo Panitch

Panagiotis Sotiris
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Leo Panitch on British Labourism and the prospects for a ‘Labour new left’

Madeleine Davis
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Against pessimism: A life on the left

Leo Panitch, Rafael Khachaturian
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