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Capitalism’s Deadly Threat
transform! yearbook 2021
Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Haris Golemis
Merlin Press
ISBN 978-0-85036-770-6
£20.00
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Table of Contents
Preface
Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Haris Golemis: Capitalism’s Deadly Threat
In Memoriam
Ingar Solty: The Global Left, Marxism, and Democratic Socialism: Remembering Leo Panitch (1945-2020)
Europe
Walter Baier: The State of the Union: On the Eve of the Conference on the Future of Europe
Capitalism’s Ecological Crisis and Radical Left Alternatives
John Bellamy Foster: The Planetary Rift
Interviewed by Haris Golemis
Birgit Mahnkopf: On the Political Economy of the Ecological Crisis
Teppo Eskelinen: Climate Change and Capitalist Development
Nadja Charaby and Katja Voigt: The UN Climate Summits: Not a Solution to the Climate Crisis – But it is Important to be There
David Adler and Pawel Wargan: The EU’s Green Deal and the Betrayal of a Generation: A Strategy to Fight Back
Kateřina Konečná: Sleepwalking from One Crisis to the Next
Oguz Turkyilmaz: Proposals for a Democratic Energy Programme in Turkey
Politics and Everyday Life Under the Pandemic
Maria Karamessini: The Covid-19 Crisis and Socio-Economic Disruption in Europe: Threats and Challenges for Labour
Adoración Guamán, Guillermo Murcia López, and José Miguel Sánchez Ocaña: The Coronavirus, Working People, and Precarity: Challenges for an Exit Based on Labour
Roland Kulke: A Left Perspective on the Economics of the Corona Crisis
Ursula Huws: Reaping the Whirlwind: Digitalisation, Restructuring, and Mobilisation in the Covid Crisis
Amelia Martinez-Lobo and Andrea Peniche: The Pandemic Crisis and Its Impact on Women’s Lives
Joanna Bourke: Pandemics and Domestic Violence
Sandro Mezzadra: Testing Borders: Covid-19 and the Management of (Im)mobility
Monika Mokre: Covid and the Unequal Distribution of Vulnerability
Fabian Fajnwaks: Contemporary Forms of the Death Drive in Pandemic Capitalism
Kevin Biderman, Eleanor Dare, Laura Gordon, Eleni Ikoniadou, Matt Lewis, Joseph Pochodzaj, Cecilia Wee, and Dylan Yamada-Rice: Exercises in Exorcism – Ways of Healing (Through) Art Education
Country Reports
Ethan Young: US Politics in Freefall
Dimitris Psarras: Golden Dawn: The Rise and Fall of a Nazi Gang
Asger Hougaard: Something Rotten in the State of Denmark? New Lessons and Old Problems for the Movements and Political Parties
Michael Chessum: Corbynism’s Demise: A Warning from the Brexit Moment
Anniversaries
Luciana Castellina: 2021: 100 Years From the Founding of the Italian Communist Party – Ten Years After the Passing of Lucio Magri
Walter Baier: The Constitution and Class Struggle: On the 100th Anniversary of Austria’s Federal Constitutional Law
Milena Gegios and Dimitris Kousouris: Histories of the Greek Revolution: The Political Framing of a National Anniversary
The Marxist-Christian Dialogue
Bernhard Callebaut: Catholics and the Economy: Pope Francis’s Narrative and the Challenges for Today’s Economy
Karl-Helmut Lechner: To Differ and Learn From Each Other – A Marxist Voice on the Social Encyclical ‘Fratelli tutti’