Few political transformations have attacked social inequalities more thoroughly than the 1959 Cuban Revolution. However, as the survey data in this paper shows, 60 years on, structural inequalities which echo the pre-revolutionary socio-ethnic hierarchies are returning. While official Cuban...

"This accessible yet rigorous book examines the development of 'financial socialism' in advanced capitalist economies in the decade since the global financial crisis of 2007-2009. This new term refers to an attempt to resolve the accumulation crisis of capital through coordinated central bank...

Capitalism and Socialism -- The Cause of the Trouble -- Why Socialism? -- Welcome to the Twenty-First Century -- How did We Get Here? -- Where are We Now? -- Twenty-First Century Socialism -- The Programme -- The Strategy.

Die Umweltbedingungen auf der koreanischen Halbinsel sind alles andere als ideal für ein einfaches Überleben. Dabei erfordert die landwirtschaftliche Produktion viel Mühe. Obwohl sie im Lauf ihrer Geschichte schwere Zeiten durchstehen mussten, konnten die Südkoreaner, nach Erlangung ihrer...

Foreword / Don Kalb -- Socialist primitive accumulation in Cluj -- Productive state apparatuses : taking over the factories, 1944-1948 -- "More precious than gold" : labour instability and the stickyness of everyday life -- "Workers," "proletarians," and the struggle for cheap labour -- Time and...

In welchem Verhältnis stehen soziale Ungleichheit und Lebensführung? Das ist die übergreifende Frage der Autor_innen, die Phänomene wie Milliardäre in der Weltpolitik, das Refugiumsbürgertum in der DDR oder Formen investiver Statusarbeit innerhalb eines Spannungsfeldes von Selbst- und...

Introduction: making marxism relevant in the age of capitalist crisis -- Capitalist crisis and the relevance of marxism -- Learning from marxism¿s historical crisis -- Validating marxist analysis -- The development of the capitalist state -- Qualitative change in capitalism and its implications...

"Rand Paul, U.S. senator for Kentucky and America's most prominent libertarian, makes a case against socialist ideology, showing the impact of its deadly legacy and the threat of its new rise in America."

We live in a time of crises -- economic turmoil, workplace disempowerment, unresponsive government, environmental degradation, social disintegration, and international rivalry. In The 99 Percent Economy, Paul S. Adler, a leading expert on business management, argues that these crises are...

Introduction / Jack Barnes -- Tribunes of the people / V.I. Lenin -- Trade unions in the epoch of imperialist decay / Leon Trotsky -- "In Minneapolis we can begin to show the entire country" / Farrell Dobbs, Jack Barnes -- Trade unions : their past, present, and future / Karl Marx.

"A primer on Democratic Socialism for those who are extremely skeptical of it. America is witnessing the rise of a new generation of socialist activists. More young people support socialism now than at any time since the labor movement of the 1920s. The Democratic Socialists of America, a...

Against the usual argument heard most frequently on the left, that there is no subject for a radical politics together with its form of political mobilization, there is - but in the absence of a radical leftist project, this subject has in the past transferred, and in many instances is still...

The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to...

The rise of the coca unions -- The lowest rung of the cocaine trade -- Self-governing in the Chapare -- From class to ethnicity -- Community coca control -- The unions and local government -- The coca union's radio station

Conditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the developing world, the immediate post-independence period represented an age of hope and relative prosperity. But imperialism did not sleep while these...