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The parliamentary socialist project in Europe: is the party over?
The plodding logic of piecemeal progressive change that social democracy – with support from mass communist parties – provided has almost died on this continent; what can we learn by analysing its demise, asks NICK WRIGHT

DOES the left have a future? Or more precisely, do the social forces exist that would leave capitalism with no future?

As the wheels come off the post-2008 bid to stabilise our crisis-ridden system the question is raised: what kind of future for the main capitalist states is possible?

How can the global elite and each national bourgeoisie stabilise the capitalist economy without measures which are already rousing working-class resistance?

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