CONTENTS

Leo Panitch Greg Albo

Preface

Bryan D Palmer Joan Sangster

The distinctive heritage of 1917: resuscitating revolution’s longue durée

Leo Panitch Sam Gindin

Class, party and the challenge of state transformation

Jodi Dean

The actuality of revolution

Hilary Wainwright

Radicalizing the party-movement relationship: from Ralph Miliband to Jeremy Corbyn and beyond

Fabien Escalona

The heritage of Eurocommunism in the contemporary radical left

Andreas Malm

Revolution in a warming world: lessons from the Russian to the Syrian revolutions

David Schwartzman

Beyond eco-catastrophism: the conditions for solar communism

Patrick Bond

South Africa’s next revolt: eco-socialist opportunities

Robert Cavooris

Turning the tide: revolutionary potential and the limits of Bolivia’s ‘process of change’

Steve Striffler

Something left in Latin America: Venezuela and the struggle for twenty-first century socialism

Pierre Beaudet

In search of the ‘modern prince’: the new Québec rebellion

August H Nimtz

Marx and Engels on the revolutionary party

A W Zurbrugg

1917 and the ‘workers’ state’: looking back

Wang Hui

The ‘people’s war’ and the legacy of the Chinese revolution

Adolph Reed, Jr

Revolution as ‘national liberation’? the origins of neoliberal antiracism

Walter Benn Michaels

Picturing the whole: form, reform, revolution

Slavoj Žižek

Addressing the impossible

Leo Panitch

On revolutionary optimism of the intellect