Contents

Editorial introduction
Alex Calliinicos - Capitalism, Competition and Profits: A Critique of Robert Brenner's Theory of Crisis
Guglielmo Carchedi - A Missed Opportunity: Orthodox Versus Marxist Crises Theories
Simon Clarke - Capitalist Competition and the Tendency to Overproduction: Comments on Brenner's ‘Uneven Development and the Long Downturn’
Gérard Duménil,Dominique Lévy - Brenner on Distribution
Chris Harman - Footnotes and Fallacies: A Comment on Robert Brenner's ‘The Economics of Global Turbulence’
David Laibman - Perspectives on Brenner
Michael A. Lebowitz - In Brenner, Everything Is Reversed
Murray Smith - The Necessity of Value Theory: Brenner's Analysis of the ‘Long Downturn’ and Marx's Theory of Crisis
Ellen Meiksins Wood - Horizontal Relations: A Note on Brenner's Heresy
Alan Johnson - Introduction Hal Draper: A Biographical Sketch
Hal Draper - The Myth of Lenin's ‘Concept Of The Party’: Or What They Did to What Is To Be Done?
Matthew Worley - Reflections on Recent British Communist Party History
Edwin A. Roberts - Left Out: Pragmatism, Exceptlonallsm and the Poverty of American Marxism
Charles Post - Capitalism from Above and Capitalism from Below: An Essay in Comparative Political Economy
Alan Wald - The War of the Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America
Rick Kuhn - Unions in a Contrary World: The Future of Australian Trade Unionism
Emma Bircham - Transatlantic Workshop on Historical Materialism and Globalisation: Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
Notes on Contributors