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Book SynopsisSocialist Register 2013 seeks to explore and clarify strategy for the Left, in the light of new challenges, and new opportunities. Socialists today have to confront two realities - that they cannot avoid the question of reforms and a gradualist path out of capitalism; and that the organizational vehicles for socialism will most likely ...
Table of ContentsContents: Greg Albo: The Crisis and Economic Alternatives; Sam Gindin: Rethinking Unions, Registering Socialism; Jodi Dean: Occupy Wall Street - After the Anarchist Moment; Barbara Epstein: Occupy Oakland - The Question of Violence; Mimmo Porcaro: Occupy Lenin; Michael Spourdalakis: Left Strategy in the Greek Cauldron - Explaining Syriza's Success; Aristides Baltaz: The Rise of Syriza - An Interview; Hilary Wainwright: Transformative Power: political organization in transition; Christoph Spehr: Die Linke Today - fears and desires; Charles Post: What is Left of Leninism? New European Left Parties in Historical Perspective; Steve Hellman: Whatever Happened to Italian Communism? Lucio Magri's The Tailor of Ulm; John Saul: On Taming a Revolution - The South African Case; Atilio Boron: Strategy and Tactics in Popular Struggles in Latin America; Susan Spronk: Twenty-first Century Socialism in Bolivia - The Gender Agenda; Johanna Brenner & Nancy Holmstrom: Socialist Feminist Strategy Today; Joan Sangster & Meg Luxton: Feminism, Cooptation and the Problems of Amnesia - A Response the Nancy Fraser; Eli Zaretsky: Reconsidering the American Left; Alex Callinicos: Alain Badiou and the Idea od Communism; Michael Lebowitz: The State and the Future of Socialism.
