The Socialist Register was founded by Ralph Miliband and John Saville in 1964 as ‘an annual survey of movements and ideas’ from the standpoint of the independent new left. It is currently edited by Greg Albo, assisted by an editorial collective of eminent scholars in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Each volume is focused on a topical theme and characterized by the inclusion of relatively long, sustained analyses which cut across intellectual disciplines and geographical boundaries.

The Socialist Register is published annually in October. The complete digital archive of 60 volumes published in English, as well as 3 volumes translated into Spanish, is available here. To order or subscribe now click here.

Reviews of SR

2022-11-17

Read some reviews of Socialist Register volumes:  of SR 2024 in The Spokesman; of SR 2023 in The Bullet; of SR 2022 in Monthly Review, Counterfire and Labour Hub; of SR 2021 in Science & Society, Counterfire and Worker's Liberty; of SR 2020 in Science & Society, Counterfire and Morning Star; of SR 2019 in Counterfire and Race & Class; of SR 2018 in Counterfire, Chartist and MBR Bookwatch; of SR 2017 in Capital & Class, Counterfire, Truthout, Midwest Book Review, Chartist and Socialist Review; of SR 2016 in Race & Class, Counterfire, People's World and The Spokesman; of SR 2015 in International Socialism and Counterfire; of SR 2014 in International Socialist Review, International Socialism, The Spokesman, as well as at Counterfire (part 1 and part 2); of SR 2013 at Counterfire as well as in The Spokesman, Red Pepper, Against the Current and the Swedish journal, Arena; of SR 2012 in The Caravan, The Spokesman and Marx & Philosophy Review of Books; of both SR 2012 and SR 2011 in Teoria politica; of SR 2011 in Labour/Le Travail, Economic & Political Weekly, The Spokesman, Permanent Revolution, and IndoProgress (translated into English here); and of SR 2010 in Red Pepper and The Spokesman.

Vol. 60: Socialist Register 2024: A New Global Geometry?

In October 2022 President Joe Biden launched the new National Security Strategy, which warned that the world was at an “inflection point” in which the “post-Cold War era is definitively over, and a competition is underway between the major powers to shape what comes next”. US leadership would be needed more than ever, the document declared, to define "the future of the international order" by marshalling its unparalleled economic, military and diplomatic resources to confront America’s geopolitical rivals.

While it is clearly premature to speak of the end of the liberal economic order, let alone the development of a multipolar international system, it is not too early to take stock of how these momentous changes, even if not spelling the end of globalization, might alter its historical trajectory, or point toward a new global geometry. And, from there to assess potential vulnerabilities and resistances from socialist movements with their historical demands for a democratic and egalitarian world order.

Published: 2024-02-01

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