Crisis and the Left: Socialist Register 2012 / Edited by Leo Panitch, Greg Albo, Vivek Chibber. — Pontypool : The Merlin Press, 2011. — 306 p.
Анотація: This year's Socialist Register continues its coverage of the economic crisis. It deepens the analysis with essays on:
* The global roots of the crisis * The place of the city as a site of capital accumulation and resistance * The dismantling of the public sector * The fraudulence of neoliberal "environmentalism" * The intensification of global austerity
It extends regional coverage of the crisis, with essays on the United States, Latin America, China, Eastern Europe, Ireland, and the Middle East. The volume also opens up a debate on possible strategies for the Left, which it will continue in the forthcoming volume in 2013 on socialist strategy for the 21st century.
'The high standard we have grown to expect is maintained ... (it) helps us to understand events as they unfold and hopefully, will help guide our future actions.' Spokesman.
'The Socialist Register 2012 provides a fascinating and very informative series of pieces on diverse aspects of the current crisis. Although occasionally eclectic and contradictory, it is thought-provoking and insightful throughout.' Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
CONTENTS: Leo Panitch, Greg Albo, Vivek Chibber : Preface David Harvey : The Urban Roots of Financial Crises: Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle David McNally : Slump, Austerity and Resistance Ursula Huws : Crisis as Capitalist Opportunity: New Accumulation Through Public Service Commodification Larry Lohmann : Financialization, Commodification and Carbon: The Contradictions of Neoliberal Climate Policy Frances Fox Piven : The New American Poor Law Nicole M. Aschoff : A Tale of Two Crises: Labour, Capital and Restructuring in the US Auto Industry Adolph Reed, Jr. and Merlin Chowkwanyun : Race, Class, Crisis: The Discourse of Racial Disparity and its Analytical Discontents Adam Hanieh : Finance, Oil and the Arab Uprisings: The Global Crisis and the Gulf States Claudio Katz : The Singularities of Latin America Ho-fung Hung : Sinomania: Global Crisis, China's Crisis? Jan Toporowski : Eastern Europe: Post:Communist Assets in Crisis Peadar Kirby : When Banks Cannibalize the State: Responses to Ireland's Economic Collapse
SYMPOSIUM ON THE EUROZONE CRISIS AND LEFT STRATEGIES Elmar Altvater - From Subprime Farce to Greek Tragedy: The Crisis Dynamics of Financially Driven Capitalism Costas Lapavitsas - Default and Exit from the Eurozone: A Radical Left Strategy Michel Husson - Exit or Voice? A European Strategy of Rupture