INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THOUGHT

　　Volume 2 Number 1 March 2012

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　　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 of a 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?

　　Ladislav Hohoš

　　Articles

　　The scientific-philosophical foundations of twenty-first century 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 contemporary capitalism

　　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 Gao Jingyu

　　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