Building upon more than a half century of sustained analysis of the evolving political economy of contemporary capitalism – and in particular the challenges it poses to the left – Socialist Register 2026, Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins puzzles through the rubble left behind after decades of rampant neoliberalism.

• What kind of world order is now emerging?
• Is capitalism entering a terminal crisis, or being violently reconstituted?
• How is American empire being reshaped from Palestine to New York?
• And what possibilities remain for socialist politics in an age of ecological breakdown, geopolitical fracture, and resurgent authoritarianism?

Ibrahim Shikaki, Costas Lapavitsas and Paul Heideman, three contributors to this year’s Socialist Register volume, will consider these and other question in conversation with co-editor Steve Maher and the new editor of Monthly Review Press, Arun Kundnani.

Thursday May 28th, 5:30pm at the People’s Forum, New York.

Late-Stage Capitalism? Accumulation in the Ruins