Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the global capitalist crisis and its aftermath on a world scale / Berch Berberoglu -- The nature and causes of the global capitalist crisis : the contours of the debate on the left / David Thurston Martin -- The global capitalist crisis : its origins, dynamics, and impact on the United States / Berch Berberoglu -- "The great recession" of 2008 and the continuing global capitalist crisis / William I. Robinson -- The global financial crisis : a crisis of capital or for labor? / James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer -- The global capitalist crisis and the 2008 financial meltdown in the United States / Levin Welch -- The impact of the global capitalist crisis on the eurozone / David L. Elliott -- Japan's long stagnation and the global capitalist crisis : the onset of inter-state rivalry? / Bill Lucarelli -- The continuing global capitalist crisis and the transition to state neoliberalism in China / Alvin So -- Russia and the global capitalist crisis / David M. Kotz -- Latin America and the epochal crisis of capitalism / Luis Arizmendi and Gordon Welty -- "Africa rising" or Africans uprising? : the impact of the global capitalist crisis on Africa / Patrick Bond -- The structural crisis of global capitalism and the prospects for world revolution in the 21st century / Chris Chase-Dunn and Anthony Roberts -- The global capitalist crisis and the end of empire / Martin Orr -- Conclusion: the global capitalist crisis and class struggle on a world scale / Berch Berberoglu -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the contributors.