Greg Albo teaches Political Economy in the Department of Politics at York University. He has recently co-edited Divided Province: Ontario Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism (2018); Beyond Market Dystopia (2020); and Beyond Digital Capitalism (2021).

Stephen Maher is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Ontario Tech University. He is assistant editor of the Socialist Register, and co-author with Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin of the second edition of The Socialist Challenge Today (2020).

Alan Zuege is an assistant editor of the Socialist Register and co-editor of the Socialist Register Classics book series with Haymarket Books. He has also co-edited Phases of Capitalist Development; Value and the World Economy Today; and The Globalization Decade.

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction State TransformationsIntroduction: State Transformations
   Greg Albo, Stephen Maher and Alan Zuege

part 1
State Theory and Capitalist Democracy
1 From the Canadian State to the Making of Global Capitalism
   Clyde W. Barrow

2 Beyond the Impasse of State Theory
   Martijn Konings

3 Working-Class Politics Matters Identity, Class, Parties
   Dennis Pilon and Larry Savage

part 2
Imperialist Restructuring and Global Capitalism
4 Globalization as Internationalization of Capital Understanding Imperialism and State Restructuring
   Sebnem Oguz

5 The State and Imperialism in International Relations Theory
   Ana Garcia and Caio Bugiato

6 Bringing Class Back in The State, the ‘Pink Tide’, and the Case of Argentina
   Ruth Felder

part 3
From Neoliberalism to Political Crisis
7 The Rebirth of Nationalism and the Crisis of the European Union
   Frank Deppe

8 The UK’s Organic Crisis
   Colin Leys

9 The Coronacrisis A Body Blow to the Rotting American State
   Doug Henwood

10 The State, Trade Union Freedoms, and the Impasse of Working-Class Power in Canada
   Charles Smith

part 4
Transforming Class Politics and the State
11 Transformative Agency from a Time of Revolt to a Time of Pandemic
   Hilary Wainwright

12 Class Politics and Strategies for Party Building
   Michalis Spourdalakis

13 Notes toward a Plausible Socialism
   Sam Gindin

14 Between the State and the Streets A Study in Socialist Sobriety
   Bryan D. Palmer

 Postscript
   Greg Albo, Stephen Maher and Alan Zuege

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