Globalization and the International Working Class: A Marxist Assessment Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International Front Page | Introduction | WSWS ISBN 1 875639 27 6 168 pages, index Price: US: $14.95 Australia: $14.95 Britain: £8.75 To Order Online Table of Contents Introduction Part One Globalization and the dynamics of capitalist development Global economy versus the nation-state system A qualitative change in the structure of world capitalism Globalized production and the trade unions Capitalism and the origins of the nation-state Spartacist and the "stockholders who care" International finance vs. the capitalist state The rise and fall of the Bretton Woods system Part Two Marx and the "iron law of wages" The rejection of a revolutionary perspective A separation of immediate demands from the struggle for socialism Spartacist denies the fall in living standards Economic nationalism and American chauvinism Globalized production and proletarian internationalism Part Three Transnational production, the nation-state and the origins of war Capitalism strains against the confines of the nation-state Karl Kautsky and "ultra-imperialism" Spartacism and Kautskyism Fear of globalization's revolutionary implications Part Four The Spartacist League and the trade unions Marxism and the trade union question The antagonism between the unions and revolutionary Marxism Engels and the English unions The lessons of German social democracy The historic degeneration of trade unionism Part Five Mythologizing the CIO Spartacist's defense of the AFL-CIO The degeneration of the unions -- an international phenomenon A wave of defeats and betrayals Strategy and tactics, Marxism vs. opportunism A crude apology for bureaucracy Part Six On the national question Globalization and the "new nationalism" Lenin's conditional attitude toward self-determination Where Spartacist champions self-determination Promoting Quebeois nationalism Sri Lanka and the Tamil question The Mexican crisis: Marxism vs. petty-bourgeois nationalism The perspective of permanent revolution Part Seven Spartacist and Stalinism The USSR's dissolution and the crisis of capitalism National state socialism The Chinese "workers state" Part Eight Conclusion To Order Online | Top of Page | Front Page | Introduction | WSWS (c) 1998 by World Socialist Web Site (TM) All rights reserved