Contents

　　Symposium: The Transnational Working Class and Global Working Class Strategies

　　Global Monopolies and the Transnational Capitalist Class

　　Jerry Harris

　　Crisis, the emerging new stage of capitalism, and the need ofa transnational class strategy for social emancipation

　　George Liodakis

　　The condition of the working class in the age of globalization

　　William A. Pelz

　　The Rhizomatic left, neoliberal capitalism and class: Theoretical interventions on contemporary social movements in the global north

　　Peter N. Funke

　　The issue of communism: A blind alley or a new dawn?

　　LadislavHohoš

　　Articles

　　The scientific-philosophical foundationsof twenty-firstcentury socialism

　　Heinz Dieterich and Raimunto Franco

　　A class approach to ecological crisis

　　Marc Brodine

　　Withdrawal from growth: The environmental challenge for twenty-first century socialism

　　Luis J. Alvarez Lozano

　　The evolution of service economics as part of the theory of contemporarycapitalism

　　Takuya Sato

　　The end of intellectual property: Challenges beyond the ‘China Model’

　　Feng Xiang

　　Interview

　　Lenin and Leninism today: An interview with Immanuel Wallerstein

　　Immanuel Wallerstein and GaoJingyu

　　Information and Trends

　　Spaces of capital, moments of struggle: A review of the eighth annual historical materialism conference

　　Feng Yanli and Liu Zixu

　　Report on Prague conference on global capitalism

　　Leslie Sklair and Jill Timms

　　

　　Editor: Zhou Miao