| 11 | INTRODUCTION |
| Part One | |
| THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IN CAPITALIST COUNTRIES IN THE EARLY POST-WAR YEARS (1945-1955) | |
| Chapter 1 • THE OUTCOME OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IN DEVELOPED CAPITALIST COUNTRIES (1945-1947) | |
| 25 | A NEW INTERNATIONAL SITUATION AND PROSPECTS FOR THE WORKING-CLASS STRUGGLE |
| 39 | PROBLEMS OF THE POST-WAR LABOUR MOVEMENT |
| 49 | THE COMMUNIST PARTIES’ EFFORT TOWARDS RADICAL DEMOCRATIC TRANSFORMATION: RESULTS ACHIEVED IN THE EARLY POST-WAR YEARS |
| Chapter 2 • THE WORKING-CLASS MOVEMENT AND THE COLD WAR (THE LATE 1940s AND THE FIRST HALF OF THE 1950s) | |
| 61 | [introduction.] |
| 61 | THE BEGINNING OF THE COLD WAR AND THE GROWING COMPLEXITY OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONDITIONS OF THE WORKING-CLASS STRUGGLE |
| 68 | THE LEFT-WING FORCES AND THE WORKERS’ STRUGGLE IN FRANCE, ITALY AND JAPAN |
| 83 | THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IN OTHER DEVELOPED CAPITALIST COUNTRIES |
| 103 | THE PECULIARITIES OF THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IN THE LATE 40s AND THE FIRST HALF OF THE 50s |
| 111 | GROWING IDEOLOGICAL AND ORGANISATIONAL DELIMITATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR MOVEMENT |
| Part Two | |
| THE WORKING CLASS IN CAPITALIST COUNTRIES AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE ADVANCE OF THE FORCES OF SOCIALISM AND DEEPENING CONTRADICTIONS OF CAPITALISM | |
| Chapter 3 • CHANGES ON THE INTERNATIONAL AND HOME FRONTS OF THE WORKING-CLASS STRUGGLE | |
| 123 | THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION IN 1955-1980 |
| 142 | THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION, STATE-MONOPOLY CAPITALISM AND THE WORKING CLASS |
| Chapter 4 • THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORKING CLASS | |
| 160 | THE WORKING CLASS AND ITS ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTIVE FORCES |
| 168 | THE INDUSTRIAL PROLETARIAT |
| 181 | FOREIGN WORKERS |
| 187 | THE AGRICULTURAL PROLETARIAT |
| 189 | PROLETARIAN DETACHMENTS OF OFFICE WORKERS |
| 197 | SEMI-PROLETARIAN AND TRANSITIONAL STRATA. THE WORKING CLASS AND THE INTELLIGENTSIA |
| Chapter 5 • THE ECONOMIC POSITION OF THE WORKING CLASS | |
| 203 | [introduction.] |
| 204 | UNEMPLOYMENT |
| 211 | WAGES |
| 220 | WORKING-CLASS CONSUMPTION PATTERNS |
| 226 | METHODS OF CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION AND WORKING-CLASS CONDITIONS |
| Chapter 6 • THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF THE WORKING CLASS | |
| 235 | [introduction.] |
| 236 | THE IMPACT OF THE POST-WAR SOCIO-POLITICAL SITUATION ON THE MASS CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE WORKING CLASS |
| 246 | THE GROWING ANTI-MONOPOLIST AND ANTI-CAPITALIST TRENDS IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE WORKING CLASS |
| Part Three | |
| LABOUR MOVEMENT UPSURGE AND CAPITALISM’S WORSENING GENERAL CRISIS | |
| Chapter 7 • THE LABOUR MOVEMENT AND CAPITALISM’S DEEPENING SOCIAL CONTRADICTIONS | |
| 261 | [introduction.] |
| 264 | SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES OF THE LABOUR MOVEMENT 1950-1980 |
| 273 | THE WORKING CLASS AND INTENSIFIED SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTRADICTIONS OF CAPITALISM |
| Chapter 8 • THE MASS LABOUR MOVEMENT IN THE LATE 1950s AND EARLY 1960s | |
| 295 | THE LABOUR MOVEMENT SWITCHES FROM DEFENCE TO ATTACK |
| 310 | DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES |
| Chapter 9 • DEVELOPMENT OF WORKING-CLASS SOCIO-ECONOMIC STRUGGLE IN THE LATE 1960s AND THE 1970s | |
| 321 | UPSURGE AND NEW FEATURES OF THE MASS STRIKE MOVEMENT |
| 348 | ENHANCED ROLE OF TRADE UNIONS IN CLASS STRUGGLE |
| 397 | THE LABOUR MOVEMENT VIS-A-VIS GROWING INTERNATIONALISATION OF CAPITAL |
| Chapter 10 • THE WORKING-CLASS STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL PROGRESS IN THE MAIN CAPITALIST STATES (LATE 1960s-1970s) | |
| 405 | [introduction.] |
| 406 | THE MAY 1968 EVENTS IN FRANCE AND STRUGGLE FOR LEFT UNITY |
| 424 | ITALIAN WORKING-CLASS STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE |
| 437 | SHIFTS IN THE BRITISH LABOUR MOVEMENT |
| 451 | THE WEST GERMAN LABOUR MOVEMENT IN THE "SMALL COALITION" PERIOD |
| 461 | THE US LABOUR MOVEMENT DURING THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CRISIS |
| 470 | WORSENING CLASS CONTRADICTIONS IN JAPAN |
| Chapter 11 • THE LABOUR MOVEMENT AND THE BREAK-UP OF FASCIST REGIMES IN WESTERN EUROPE (GREECE, PORTUGAL, SPAIN) | |
| 483 | [introduction.] |
| 483 | THE LEFT-WING FORCES OF PORTUGAL IN THE ANTI-FASCIST REVOLUTION AND IN THE STRUGGLE TO DEFEND THE GAINS MADE IN THAT REVOLUTION |
| 507 | OVERTHROW OF THE MILITARY-FASCIST DICTATORSHIP IN GREECE AND ACTIVATION OF THE LABOUR MOVEMENT |
| 516 | THE WORKING CLASS IN STRUGGLE TO ERADICATE FRANCOISM AND DEMOCRATISE THEIR COUNTRY |
| Chapter 12 • GROWING POLITICAL ACTIVITY OF THE WORKING CLASS IN THE SMALL CAPITALIST COUNTRIES OF WESTERN EUROPE, AND IN CANADA, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND | |
| 536 | [introduction.] |
| 536 | ACTIVATION OF THE WORKING-CLASS MOVEMENT IN THE SMALL CAPITALIST COUNTRIES OF WESTERN EUROPE |
| 564 | ACTIVATION OF THE WORKING CLASS IN AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND CANADA |
| 578 | BASIC TRENDS AND CONFLICTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORKING-CLASS MOVEMENT IN THE SMALLER COUNTRIES OF WESTERN EUROPE, AND IN AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND CANADA |
| Part Four | |
| POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL ISSUES OF THE WORKING-CLASS MOVEMENT | |
| Chapter 13 • IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY DURING THE NEW STAGE OF THE GENERAL CRISIS OF CAPITALISM | |
| 583 | [introduction.] |
| 586 | THE “REVISIONISM” OF THE EARLY 50s AND LATE 60s, AND THE SHARPENING PARTY INFIGHTING |
| 597 | THE “TECHNOCRATIC” DEVIATION BY REFORMIST LEADERS AND ITS SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES |
| 606 | SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE MOUNTING LABOUR MOVEMENT IN THE LATE 60s AND EARLY 70s |
| 610 | THE "RETURN OF IDEOLOGY" IN THE EARLY 70s |
| 621 | SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE DEEPENING GENERAL CRISIS OF CAPITALISM |
| Chapter 14 • FIGHT FOR WORKING-CLASS POLITICAL UNITY IN THE INTERESTS OF PEACE, DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS | |
| 628 | NEW INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONDITIONS AND THE PROBLEM OF UNITY |
| 631 | STRENGTHENING OF UNITARIAN TENDENCIES WITHIN THE WORKING-CLASS AND DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT |
| 636 | THE COMMUNIST PARTY IS THE DECISIVE FORCE IN THE FIGHT FOR THE POLITICAL UNITY OF THE WORKING CLASS |
| 649 | VITAL ISSUES OF WORLD POLITICS AND THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT |
| 658 | CO-OPERATION BETWEEN COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS IN THE FIGHT FOR DETENTE |
| 671 | CONCLUSION |
| 691 | NAME INDEX |
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