This paper argues that the adoption of ad hoc protectionist politics by the trade union leadership fails to address effectively the issues of job loss and managerial control of production. Instead, protectionist policies actually weaken trade union power in both the short term and long term.The...

This paper examines the contemporary significance of the World War I debate about the inevitability of nation-state rivalry during the era of fin ance capital. After outlining the historically specific theory of nation-state rivalry in Hilferding's Finanzkapital, accepted by both Lenin and...