Socialist Register 2001 Preface

This thirty-seventh volume of the Socialist Register, 'Working Classes: Global Realities' follows naturally from last year's volume, Necessary and Unnecessary Utopias, which explored visions and strategies capable of transcending the pessimism prevailing on the Left and rekindling the socialist imagination. Socialist renewal remains, in our minds, inextricably linked with working-class emancipation. This must mean the working class in the broadest possible sense; and it must also mean transcending the limits of old forms of working-class organization and politics.