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Issue 126—Spring 2010

Highlights include:

The changing face of racism

by Richard Seymour

Climate politics after Copenhagen

by Jonathan Neale

C L R James and the Black Jacobins

by Christian Høgsbjerg

25 years after the Great Miners’ Strike

by Jack Robertson

Tony Cliff: Deflected permanent revolution in Africa

by Leo Zeilig

Rethinking imperialism: past, present and future

by Gilbert Achcar

Conceding the Russian Revolution to Liberals

by Kevin Murphy

Issue 125—Winter 2010

Highlights include:

Snapshots of struggle

Ireland: From shock therapy to resistance
by Kieran Allen
France: From economic to political struggles
by Denis Godard
Opposition and opportunity in Germany
by Stefan Bornost
Greece: The eye of the storm?
by Panos Garganas
Sketches of Spain
by Mike Eaude

Chris Harman 1942-2009

A life in the struggle
by Ian Birchall
Althusser: The emperor has no clothes
by Chris Harman
Another side of Chris Harman
by Joseph Choonara
Not all Marxism is dogmatism
by Chris Harman
Zombie Capitalism and the origin of crises
by Guglielmo Carchedi
A whiff of tear gas
by Andy Durgan

Marxism and anarchism

by Paul Blackledge

The sex work debate

by Jane Pritchard

Obama’s first year

by Megan Trudell

Honduras is not just another banana republic

by Mike Gonzalez

Issue 124—Autumn 2009

Highlights include:

1989: How the wall was toppled

A short autumn of utopia: the East German revolution of 1989
by Gareth Dale
End of the liberal dream: Hungary since 1989
by Adam Fabry

Rupture and Revolt in Iran

by Peyman Jafari

Interview: Will the sparks flare up?

by Michael Bradley and Charlie Kimber

Pinning the blame on the system

by Andrew Kliman

On party democracy

by John Molyneux

Issue 123—Summer 2009

Highlights include:

How do we stop the BNP?

by Martin Smith

Marxists accounts of the crisis

by Joseph Choonara

Gandhi: the man behind the myths

by Talat Ahmed

Capitalism, health and medicine

by Mike Haynes

The full story: Marxism and religion

by Roland Boer

Issue 122—Spring 2009

Highlights include:

In the balance: The class struggle in Britain

by Charlie Kimber

Migration, migrant workers and capitalism

by Jane Hardy

Culture and socialism

by Terry Eagleton

1934: Year of the fightback

by John Newsinger

Social work after “Baby P”

by Iain Ferguson and Michael Lavalette

Issue 121—Winter 2009

Highlights include:

The slump of the 1930s and the crisis today

by Chris Harman

Myths of globalisation and the new economy

by Bill Dunn

Viewpoints on the European radical left

by Francois Sabado and Panos Garganas

Obama and the working class vote

by Megan Trudell

How classical music lost its audience

by Simon Behrman

Trotsky on race in the US

by Christian Hogsbjerg

Chavez ten years on

by Mike Gonzalez

Issue 120—Autumn 2008

Highlights include:

Afghanistan: the case against the “good war”

by Jonathan Neale

Where is the radical left going?

by Alex Callinicos

Marxism and ethics

by Paul Blackledge

Crisis at the centre of the system

by Andrew Kliman

A fiftieth birthday for Marxist theory

by Ian Birchall

Issue 119—Summer 2008

Highlights include:

More than opium: Marxism and religion

by John Molyneux

Behind the world food crisis

by Carlo Moreli

China, Tibet and the left

by Charlie Hore

Zimbabwe: imperialism, hypocrisy and fake nationalism

by Leo Zeilig

Marx, Leon and the Jewish Question

by John Rose

Issue 118—Spring 2008

Highlights include:

1968: an extraordinary year

France: May through the decades
by Matt Perry
Martin Luther King in Memphis
by Brian Kelly
Tony Cliff in 1968
by Ian Birchall

Egypt’s strike wave

by Anne Alexander, Mustafa Bassiouny and Omar Said

China’s growth pains

by Charlie Hore

Foucault: friend of foe of the left

by Colin Wilson

Analysing Imperial China

by Simon Gilbert

When old Labour went to war

by John Newsinger

Issue 117—Winter 2008

Highlights include:

Costas Lapavitsas interviewed on the credit crunch

Theorising neoliberalism

by Chris Harman

Capitalism and happiness

by Iain Ferguson

The African working class and the planet of slums

by Leo Zeilig and Claire Ceruti

25 Years of Imagined Communities

by Neil Davidson

Shakespeare, Marxism and literary history

by Joe Hartney

Issue 116—Autumn 2007

Highlights include:

The return of the working class: Egypt’s strike wave and South Africa’s struggles

by Sameh Naguib and Claire Ceruti

Can we write a history of the Russian Revolution

by Kevin Murphy

The Return of Russian Power?

by Mike Haynes

Germany’s political earthquake

by Stefan Bornost

Gordon Childe and Marxist archaeology

by Neil Faulkner

Interview with Mike Gonzalez: Venezuela’s tensions

Corporations and climate change

by Gareth Dale

The Dutch Revolt

by Pepijn Brandon

Realism and Film

by Mike Wayne

Issue 115—Summer 2007

Highlights include:

Robin Blackburn interview: What really ended slavery?

Brown’s Journey from Reformism to Neoliberalism

by John Newsinger

José Carlos Mariátegui: Latin America’s forgotten Marxist

by Mike Gonzalez

At an impasse? Anti-capitalism and the social forums today

by Alex Callinicos and Chris Nineham

France at the crossroads

by Antoine Boulangé and Jim Wolfreys

Kim Moody interview: The superpower’s shopfloor

The rate of profit and the world today

by Chris Harman

Issue 114—Spring 2007

Highlights include:

Antonio Gramsci’s Revolutionary Legacy

Megan Trudell on 1919-20, the Turin Years
Chris Bambery on Hegemony and Revolutionary Strategy
Chris Harman on The Prison Notebooks
Adrain Budd on Gramsci and International Relations

LGBT Politics and Sexual Liberation

by Colin Wilson

The Big Brother Phenomena

by Colin Sparks

Sami Ramadani interviewed on Iraq

Northern Irelands New Troubles

by Goretti Horgan and Kieran Allen

Scottish Independence

by Neil Davidson

Issue 113 – Winter 2007

Highlights include:

The shape of the working class

by Martin Smith

A history of Muslim workers in Britain

by Hassan Mahamdallie

Ken Livingstone—the last reformist?

by Charlie Kimber

Contortions of the pro-war “left”

by Richard Seymour

The return of strategy

by Daniel Bensaid

Issue 112 – Autumn 2006

Highlights include:

Hizbollah and the war Israel lost

by Chris Harman

1956: Hungary’s revolution

by Mike Haynes

Suez and the high tide of Arab nationalism

by Anne Alexander

The New Left’s renewal of Marxism

by Paul Blackledge

CLR James: Revolutionary as artist

by Christian Høgsbjerg

Issue 111 – Summer 2006

Highlights include:

France’s extraordinary movement

Annick Coupé, Marie Perrin

Italy’s uncertain victory

Danilo Corradi, Brune Seban, Barbara de Vivo

Germany’s strategy debate

Volkhard Mosler, Christine Buchholz, Maya Mosler

The hidden history of US radicalism

Megan Trudell

Cuba behind the myths

Chris Harman

What was done: rediscovering Lenin

Paul Blackledge

Debate: the origins of capitalism

Chris Harman and Robert Brenner

Seventy years after the Spanish Civil War

Andy Durgan

Issue 110 – Spring 2006

Highlights include:

Venezuela: movement and government

Roland Denis

The Bolsheviks and Islam

Dave Crouch

Marxism and terrorism

Gareth Jenkins

Enlightenment and anti-capitalism

Neil Davidson

Pakistan: on the edge of instability

Geoff Brown

Mao out of context

Charlie Hore

Issue 109 – Winter 2006

Highlights include:

France in revolt

Jim Wolfreys

The politics of the banlieues

Abdellali Hajjat

Dossier: Reform and revolution in Venezuela

Marta Harnecker, José Vincente Rangel, Stalin Perez Borges, Miguel Angel Hernandez and Emilio Bastidas

Iraq: resistance and sectarianism

Interviews with Sami Ramadani and Haifa Zangana

China’s economy and Europe’s crisis

Chris Harman

Anti-capitalism and the return of politics

Chris Nineham

Gramsci and revolution: a necessary clarification

Roberto Robaina

Issue 108 – Autumn 2005

Highlights include:

France: the triumph of the political

Stathis Kouvélakis

Germany: the rise of the left

Stefan Bornost

A note on the Dutch referendum

Pepijn Brandon

Poland and the new Europe

Jane Hardy and Andy Zebrowski

25 years ago: the rise of Solidarnosc

Colin Barker

Respect: the view from below

Ian Taylor

Bolivia: the rising of the people

Mike Gonzalez

The left and the crisis of the Lula government

Paulo Trinidade, Rui Polly and Sérgio Dominguez

Imperialism and global political economy

Alex Callinicos

Issue 107 – Summer 2005

Highlights include:

The strangling of Africa

Redesigning the debt trap

Gavin Capps

Aid, governance and exploitation

Charlie Kimber

Trading on poverty

Jacob Middleton

On the road to catastrophe: capitalism and climate change

Paul McGarr

Sartre’s century

Ian Birchall

Issue 106 – Spring 2005

Highlights include:

The elections and the resistance in Iraq

Anne Alexander and Simon Assaf

The changing structure of the British economy

Jane Hardy

Can we change the world without taking power?

A debate between John Holloway and Alex Callinicos World Social Forum, 27 January 2005

Issue 105 – Winter 2005

Highlights include:

Iraq: The rise of the resistance

by Anne Alexander and Simon Assaf

Workers, women and the Islamic republic

An interview with Elaheh Rostami Povey

The birth of our politics: Marxists and the 1905 Revolution

by Mark Thomas

Issue 104 – Autumn 2004

Highlights include:

Spontaneity, strategy and politics

by Chris Harman

NGOs: enemies or allies?

by Ji Giles Ungpakorn

Venezuela: many steps to come

by Mike Gonzalez

Issue 103 – Summer 2004

Highlights include:

China’s century?

by Charlie Hore

India after the elections: a rough guide

by Chris Harman

A band of brothers?

by Michael Bradley

Issue 102 – Spring 2004

Highlights include:

The hijab, racism and the state

by Antoine Boulangé

Globalisation against development

by François Chesnais

The rise of capitalism

by Chris Harman

Issue 101 – Winter 2003

Highlights include:

Women’s liberation today

by Lindsey German

The politics of food

by Carlo Morelli

Issue 100 — Autumn 2003

Highlights include:

Socialism in the 21st century

by John Rees

Global and local echoes of the anti-war movement: a British Muslim perspective

by Salma Yaqoob

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