During the 1990s and 2000, workers and the unemployed staged roadblocks as a form of protest against the neo-liberal adjustment in Argentina. This paper argues that by blocking roads, labour sets a physical and visible barrier to the violence of capital entailed in 'stability'.

This paper analyses the uneven development of capitalism on a world scale and offers a theoretical explanation for the phenomenon. It explains the divergence among countries in level of development in terms of primary and secondary uneven development, both resulting from the process of accumulation.

The 'globalisation' debate contains several themes for Left analysis of corporate retreat and host economy abandonment that are explored in a case study of ManufacturingCo in the North East region of England: historical evolution in the institutional architecture of capital, heightened capital-state inter-relations and the territoriality and nationality of capital. Historical evolution and contingency are seen as critical to Left analysis of the 'globalisation' of capital and to promoting more progressive economic and social strategies.

This paper criticizes Brenner's emphasis on competition within Manufacturing in his analysis of the falling profit rate, inversing the relationship between the decline of the profit rate and competition as in Marx. Assumptions concerning price competition appear arbitrary and proofs are deficient. Brenner cannot escape the reliance on the rise of wages.

Contrary to the propositions of bourgeois economics, the operation of 'real' markets are embedded within the social relations of production. An analysis of the operation of wheat markets in northern Pakistan demonstrates the mechanisms by which 'real' markets structurally subordinate the members of the peasant classes, to the benefit of landlords, industrial capital and merchant capital.

Because modern U.S. governance is organized in terms of a warfare-welfare paradigm the welfare state has remained a weak adjunct to a powerful warfare state. Postwar policy developments leading right up to the recent attacks on the welfare state and the growing neo-liberal consensus can be understood in terms of this paradigm.

This paper develops a regulationist account of the Asian Crisis. Despite the structural coherence between production and financial forms in post-Plaza East Asia, the production and financial orders were liable to structural crises that could be conjuncturally exacerbated. The article concludes with remarks on the remaking of global-regional-national political economy.

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