Socialist Register 1981 Preface

Abstract

This eighteenth volume of the Socialist Register follows the pattern of predecessors in presenting articles on issues and events which are of major importance for the development of socialist theory and practice; and we are grateful to our contributors for their help. Our thanks are also due to Julian Schoflin for the translation of the article by Ferenc Donith and to Bill Lomax for his introduction to that article. As usual, we have been able to rely on the help of Martin Eve and David Musson at Merlin Press: many thanks to them also. Among our contributors, Ajit Singh is a Fellow in Economics at Queen's College, Cambridge; William Graf teaches in the Department of Political Studies at Guelph University, Ontario; James Petras is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Morris Morley has taught at the School of Government at the American University, Washington. George Ross is in the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University, Massachusetts; and Jane Jenson and Leo Panitch teach in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa. Ellen Meiksins Wood is in the Department of Political Science at Glendon College, York University, Toronto and David Beetham is Professor of Politics at Leeds University. Domenico Mario Nuti is Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies, Birmingham University. Frank Webster is the the Department of Social Studies at Oxford Polytechnic and Kevin Robins is in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Sunderland Polytechnic