Capitalism's Crises

Vishwas Satgar is an associate professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the editor of the Democratic Marxism series, and is the principal investigator for the Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene project and a democratic eco-socialist.William K. Carroll is a member of the Sociology Department at the University of Victoria. He established the Interdisciplinary Program in Social Justice Studies in 2008, serving as its Director until 2012.Leah Hunt-Hendrix is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. She was a co-founder of Solidaire, a movement support organisation, and she is on the board of directors of three organisations, including the New Economy Coalition.Isham Christie is currently a labour organiser with the Writers Guild of America East. He was an anti-war and environmental activist with the New Students for a Democratic Society and was intimately involved in the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Vishwas Satgar is an associate professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the editor of the Democratic Marxism series, and is the principal investigator for the Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene project and a democratic eco-socialist.

• Acknowledgements; Acronyms and abbreviations; Introduction: Vishwas Satgar; Contemporary understandings of capitalism's crises and class struggle; From marx to the systemic crises of capitalist civilisation, Vishwas Satgar; Activist understandings of the crisis of 2008, William K. Carroll; Capitalist crisis and left responses in the global north; Occupy and the dialectics of the left in the United States, Leah-Hunt Hendrix and Isham Christie; Austerity and resistance: The politics of labour in the Eurozone crisis, Andreas Bieler and Jamie Jordan; Beyond social democratic and communist parties: Left political organisation in transition in western, Europe Hilary Wainwright; Capitalist crisis and left responses in the global south; Brazil: From neoliberal democracy to the end of the 'Lula Moment', Alfredo Saad Filho; The global financial crisis and 'resilience': The case of India, Sumangala Damodaran; Real wage trends and the labour crisis in South Africa, Niall Reddy; Seize power! The role of the constitution in unifying social justice struggles in South Africa, Mark Heywood.