Contenidos:Socialist Register 1997 Preface / Leo Panitch -- A World Market of Opportunities? Capitalist Obstacles and Left Economic Policy / Gregory Albo -- Financial Crises on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century / Elmar Altvater -- Green Imperialism: Pollution, Penitence, Profits / Larry Pratt, Wendy Montgomery -- China's Communist Capitalism: The Real World of Market Socialism / Gerard Greenfield, Apo Leong -- Taking Stock of a Century of Socialism / George Ross -- The Marginality of the American Left: The Legacy of the 1960 / Barbara Epstein -- Clinton's Liberalism: No Model for the Left / Doug Henwood -- The Ideology of 'Family and Community': New Labor Abandons the Welfare State / Joan Smith -- The Decline of Spanish Social Democracy 1982-1996 / Vicente Navarro -- Cardoso's Political Project in Brazil: The Limits of Social Democracy / Paul Cammack -- The State as Charade: Political Mobilisation in Today's India / Ananya Mukherjee-Reed -- Marxism, Film and Theory: From the Barricades to Postmodernism / Scott Forsyth -- Cyborg Fictions: The Cultural Logic of Posthumanism / Scott McCracken -- Restoring the Real: Rethinking Social Constructivist Theories of Science / Meera Nanda -- Post Colonial Theory and the 'Post-' Condition / Aijaz Ahmad