A panel celebrating the 2026 edition of Socialist Register. The newly published 2026 volume of Socialist Register - entitled "Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins" - interrogates anew the notion that global capitalism is in its end time (a recurring theme among Marxists since 1848). At the heart of this concept are indications that capital accumulation is running up against some inherent limits. just as the hucksters of private capital are crowing that so-called Artificial Intelligence will usher in a capitalist utopia of unlimited prosperity (for whom?).

Next on June 29, 5-6:30 pm ET Reading Science Fiction Politically, Midterms edition explores climate crisis, artificial intelligence in politics, a reawakened Klan, and more by way of four recent ... Read more

We are currently reading 'The Choice of Civil War' by Pierre Dardot et al. Alberto Toscano calls this work "a trenchant and provocative study of the symbolic, legal and material violence that has been deployed over the past half-century to secure the rule of capital across the planet. The Choice of Civil War breaks with antiseptic images of neoliberalism as the production of docile subjects or the marketization of everyday life, revealing it as the theory and practice of class warfare."

Novelist and film critic Dennis Broe takes a critical look at the pornography and gambling industries - the new bread and circuses, only without the bread. With the American empire ... Read more