Capitalism’s Deadly Threat – Yearbook 2021

English edition published in the UK in 2021 by The Merlin Press
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Partially financed through a subsidy from the European Parliament.

ISSN 1865-3480
ISBN 978-0-85036-770-6
Printed in the UK by Imprint Digital, Exeter

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 KatjaVoigt: 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 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 200
• 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’

Editors: Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Haris Golemis
Managing Editor: Vaggia Lyssikatou
Editorial Board: Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Haris Golemis,
Adoración Guamán Hernández, Dagmar Švendová, Andreas Thomsen