Socialist Register 1966 Preface

Abstract

The Socialist Register, 1966, is the third of a series of annual volumes of socialist analysis and discussion. As in the two previous volumes, our aim has been to select contemporary events, issues and ideas which are both of topical interest and also of lasting importance. We should perhaps make it clear once again that The Socialist Register is not intended as a record of events of the previous year, or as a calendar or chronicle. We are well aware that we do not "cover" large and important areas and issues: no such "coverage" is intended in any single volume. The extremely encouraging response which the first two volumes have aroused among readers in Britain and many other parts of the world has confirmed our belief that there exists a deeply felt need among socialists everywhere for the kind of strict, undogmatic but committed socialist writing which we set out to publish. We hope that this third Register may further contribute to meeting this need, and play a part in encouraging more such analysis and discussion.