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Socialist Register

“The intellectual lodestone for the international Left since 1964”, Mike Davis

“Compulsory reading for people who refuse to be resigned to the idea that there can be no alternative to our unacceptable society”, Daniel Singer

“Socialism has always been about democracy, human rights and internationalism…that faith is what has characterised the work of the Socialist Register”, Tony Benn

The Socialist Register was founded by Ralph Miliband and John Saville in London in 1964 as an annual survey of movements and ideas in the particular historical context of the British New Left. Currently edited by Leo Panitch, Colin Leys, Greg Albo and Vivek Chibber, with each annual volume constructed around a particular topical theme, it has consistently been committed to developing an independent relation to Marxism, free from sectarian and dogmatic positions.

It is distinguished by its willingness to publish longer, sustained pieces that take up particular themes in a rigorous and consistent manner, and by cutting across disciplines compared with the more academically-oriented left publications. Its multifaceted critiques of capitalism, especially through interventions within state theory, but also at the level of political, economic and cultural contradictions, have culminated in what is widely recognized as perhaps the most distinctive investigations on the left today of globalization, the internationalization of the state, progressive competitiveness, and the new imperialism and popular global mobilizations arraigned against it. At the same time, the journal distinguishes itself from publications on Marxist economics that have become increasingly technical, as well as from those in which political economy is entirely abandoned in favour of a more post-modern orientation.

The Register’s critical perspective on the contradictions that led to the demise of communist regimes as well as social democracy and the dynamics of trade union mobilization, have informed the journal’s orientation to exploring the possibilities of socialist renewal and substantive strategies of ‘structural reform’ and radical democratization. Displaying the broadest international coverage among socialist journals published in the English language, the Register is one of the few socialist journals that also truly involves an international spectrum of contributors, and its readership reflects this. The English edition published by Merlin Press in the UK, in addition to being co-published by Monthly Review Press edition in the USA and the Fernwood Books in Canada, itself has a very broad international reach, and there are also separate English editions in India and Greece, as well as editions in Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish, with individual volumes translated and published in Iran and South Korea.

ISSN: 0081-0606