Bøker av Leo Panitch

A new and essential history of the Labour new left from Tony Benn to Jeremy Corbyn.

This book addresses the challenges facing socialists and the recent shift from protest to politics. It examines the limits and possibilities for class, party and state transformation and the democratic and socialist insurgencies inside the Labour Party in Britain, and the Democratic Party in the USA.

The attempt to establish a 'new social contract' between the Government and the unions, with a view to stabilising the economy and restraining industrial militancy, emerged as a burning issues of contemporary British politics during the 1970s. This study uncovers the roots of this development in the incomes policies of successive post-war Governments.

Thirteen critical essays on the economy and politics of the modern world are presented here. They include socialistic analyses of gobalization, the modern capitalist state, the "weightless economy", the ideology of neo-liberalism in Britain, and the economic crises in Southeast Asia.

Various contributors ask and discuss: how does the new American Empire work?; who runs it?; how stable is it?; what is the new American Empire's impact throughout the world?; what is its influence on gender relations?; on the media?; on popular culture?