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Fra Socialist Review nr. 325

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maj 08

Mike Gonzalez: Review: Magnum Photos: Exhibitons

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2

maj 08

Just over 60 years ago four photographers formed a cooperative called Magnum Photos. Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Symour had each lived the horror of the Second World War.

Almuth Ernsting: Frontlines: Fuel for thought

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4

maj 08

As of 15 April, all petrol and diesel sold at British filling stations has to be blended with biofuels.

Annabelle Williams: Frontlines: Guilty as charged

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4

maj 08

Campaigners have won a landmark legal case against the government over the halting of an investigation into allegedly corrupt arms deals with Saudi Arabia.

Patrick Ward: Frontlines: Olympian failure

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5

maj 08

When Ken Livingstone lobbied for the 2012 Olympics he argued that the resulting investment was needed desperately by east London, as it had seen none since Victorian times.

Frontlines: Taxation by numbers

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5

maj 08

Joseph Choonara: Frontlines: No such thing as a safe bet in the market

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6

maj 08

In April the International Monetary Fund dubbed the growing economic crisis "the largest financial shock since the Great Depression", leading to a one in four chance of a full-blown global recession.

Patrick Ward: Frontlines: Every libel helps

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7

maj 08

Tesco in Thailand is suing a columnist for suggesting the supermarket chain "doesn't love Thais".

Patrick Ward: Frontlines: Taking the pics

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7

maj 08

The average Londoner is captured some 300 times a day on CCTV cameras.

Dahr Jamail: In my view: Unembedded in Iraq

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7

maj 08

When a journalist decides to "embed" they can only report on the unit they are with. They see what the unit sees, and limit themselves to what the military decides they will see.

Amanda Logan: Letters: Driving up profits

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8

maj 08

I was interested to read Back On Track (Feature, Socialist Review, April 2008) about the effects of privatisation on public transport.

Elane Heffernan: Letters: Red Season?

325

8

maj 08

Martin Smith rescues the working class – of all ethnic backgrounds – from the garbage of the BBC's White Season (Feature, Socialist Review, April 2008).

Michael Lavalette: Letters: Islamophobia

325

8

maj 08

Last month's article on Islamophobia (Feature, Socialist Review, April 2008) was an important counter to anti-Muslim attitudes from a range of journalists and politicians.

Asya Stolberg: Letters: Not so happy

325

8

maj 08

Your review of Happy Go Lucky (Culture, Socialist Review, April 2008) wasn't hard enough, but thank you for preparing me.

Phil Rushton: Letter from...: Italy

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9

maj 08

April saw the right deal a devastating blow in the Italian elections. Phil Rushton looks at the reasons for the defeat and how the left can rebuild.

Chris Harman: 1968: The Year the World Caught Fire

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10

maj 08

The events of 1968 inspired a generation and shaped struggles around the world for years to come. Chris Harman, a student activist at the time, looks back at this tumultuous year.

1968 and me

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maj 08

Sherrl Yanowitz (Berkeley), Maggie Falshaw (West Yorkshire), Alan Watts (Australia), Eddie Prevost (London), Michel Certano (France), Mike Davis (San Diego), Eamonn McCann (Derry)

Dan Mayer: A to Z of Socialism: L is for Lenin

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maj 08

There have been many revolutionary upheavals in the past century, each one unleashing the huge creative energy of millions of people.

Hossam el-Hamalawy: Egyptian Strikes: More than bread and butter

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18

maj 08

What impact has the recent strike wave and protest had on Egyptian society? Egyptian revolutionary socialist Hossam el-Hamalawy argues that the struggles of the working class are central to the growing confidence of the opposition movement to dictator Hosni Mubarrak.

Hsiao-Hung Pai: Migrants: Britain's hidden labour army

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maj 08

The deaths of 23 Chinese cockle pickers in 2004 exposed the appalling working conditions of thousands of migrants in Britain. Hsiao-Hung Pai, author of a new book, Chinese Whispers, describes her quest to tell the stories of such workers and why going undercover was the only way to get at the truth.

Pat Carmody: Union-made: Calling for recognition

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21

maj 08

Every night, all around the country, in the 21st century factories known as call centres, some 750,000 workers will breathe a collective sigh of relief as they get the signal that their shift has finally come to an end.

Ilan Pappe: Israel, the Holocaust and the Nakba

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22

maj 08

Sixty years ago half of Palestine's population was expelled when the state of Israel was created. Acclaimed anti-Zionist historian Ilan Pappe looks at the legacy of the Nazi persecution of Jews, and the complicity of world leaders, past and present, in maintaining the occupation in Palestine.

John Molyneux: Reviews – Books: Chris Harman: The Fire Last Time

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25

maj 08

Of all the articles, features, memoirs and books devoted to 1968, The Fire Last Time: 1968 and After, by Chris Harman, the editor of International Socialism journal, is still, by some distance, the best.

Anne Alexander: Reviews – Books: Patrick Cockburn: Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq

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26

maj 08

"The most dangerous man in Iraq" is how Newsweek described Muqtada al-Sadr in December 2006. The young Shia cleric has certainly been cast in many contradictory roles. Is he a leader of Iraqi Arab resistance to the US occupation, or a tool of Iran? A commander of sectarian death squads or a force for Iraqi unity?

Charlotte Bence: Reviews – Books: Parag Khanna: The Second World

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26

maj 08

Parag Khanna argues in The Second World that the moment of US supremacy is over, and that it is now the allegiances and actions of countries in what he terms "the Second World" (Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South America, the Middle East and East Asia) that will decide whether China, the European Union or the US dominates the 21st century.

Kevin Devine: Reviews – Books: Ed Moloney: Paisley

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27

maj 08

This book is the one of the best places to start when it comes to an assessment of the role in the Northern Ireland peace process of both Ian Paisley and his former deputy, Peter Robinson – who has just replaced Paisley as first minister.

Ingrid Lamprecht: Reviews – Books: Fadhil al-Azzawi: Cell Block Five

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27

maj 08

Aziz sits in a Baghdad café. Suddenly police are all around him. They bundle him off to prison. All the while he's proclaiming his innocence. Aziz ends up in Cell Block Five – a ward for political prisoners – without having committed any political crime or any other crime.

Charlie Hore: Reviews – Books: Floris-Jan van Luyn: A Floating City of Peasants

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28

maj 08

China's economic boom is largely powered by migrant workers, peasants who have moved to the cities in the largest migration in human history. Currently there are between 120 and 150 million migrants in the cities, yet very little is known about their lives and ambitions, which makes this book particularly welcome.

Ian Allinson: Reviews – Books: Labour and the Challenges of Globalization (Eds: Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg and Devan Pillay)

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28

maj 08

Modern capitalist agriculture employs a few tens of millions, while 3 billion peasants still make up about half the world's population. A peasant's productivity is a fraction of 1 percent of that of a "modern" farm worker.

Nick Howard: Reviews – Books: Philip Hensher: The Northern Clemency

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29

maj 08

The Northern Clemency is a novel set very firmly in the era of Thatcherism against the backdrop of the miners' strike, privatisation and the selling off of council housing. It recounts the histories of two Sheffield families, both of middle management class.

Andrew Stone: Reviews – Books: Nick Turse: The Complex

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29

maj 08

After two terms in the White House, a Republican president did something profoundly unexpected: he denounced the "military-industrial complex" dominating political life. In the reasonable expectation that George W Bush will not be expanding on Dwight Eisenhower's insight in his own closing address to the nation, Nick Turse has stepped into the breach by producing a damning and well-researched dossier on the ever more pervasive "complex" of the 21st century.

Esme Choonara: Reviews – Books: Ronan Bennett: Zugzwang

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30

maj 08

Set in 1914 in St Petersburg, Russia, the novel conjures up a city rife with plots, double-crossing and revolutionary ferment. In the background is the looming threat of the First World War. The Tsar's secret police are everywhere and anti-Semitism is rife – with Jewish people uniformly regarded by the state as potential terrorists.

Christophe Chataigné: Reviews – Books: Victor Serge: Unforgiving Years

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30

maj 08

The life of Victor Serge was fascinating. Serge was also a great writer as Unforgiving Years shows. Available for the first time in English (it was first published in French 25 years after his death) this novel is written in a style that shows how revolution impacts on every facet of life.

Reviews – Books: New in paperback & children's books

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30

maj 08

World food system – war on terror novel – Pullman prequel – graphic Kafka

Martin Smith: Reviews – Culture: Scenes of real America

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31

maj 08

In their quest to see some of the best views of San Francisco, tourists dive into the lift that takes them to the top of the Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill and rush past a foyer full of beautiful murals and a wooden panelled door enclosed by frescos: Ray Boynton's Animal Force and Machine Force. It's a real shame, because behind the door lies a series of murals that line the concrete stairwell to the top.

Emma Bircham: Reviews – Film: Terror's Advocate (Director: Barbet Schroeder)

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maj 08

What do Algerian freedom fighter Djamila Bouhired, Carlos the Jackal, and Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, have in common? Other than the lawyer who acted in their defence, arguably very little. That lawyer is Jacques Verges, a man who has made a career from defending the "indefensible" on an international scale.

Stewart Halforty: Reviews – Film: Stop-Loss (Director: Kimberly Peirce)

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maj 08

Stop-Loss follows US soldiers when they return home after a tour in Iraq. Ostensibly a film about the tactic of extending the soldiers' tour of duty indefinitely, it deals with the challenges faced by soldiers on their return. The advice they are given by officers on their return includes "don't drink and drive" and "don't beat your wife".

Alys Zaerin: Reviews – Film: Persepolis (Directors: Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi)

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33

maj 08

Persepolis is an animated adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novels which trails the writer's life growing up in Iran during the revolutionary 1970s and the war-torn 1980s.

Patrick Ward: Reviews – Film: Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? (Director: Morgan Spurlock)

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maj 08

Morgan Spurlock's big break was the excellent 2004 film Super Size Me, in which he acted as a human guinea pig, living (only just) on McDonald's fast food. The beauty of that film was that all Spurlock had to do was eat the McRubbish and show how it affected him. Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? uses a similar formula.

Jacqui Freeman: Reviews – Film: Caramel (Director: Nadine Labaki)

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33

maj 08

Set in Beirut, Caramel explores the contrast between the supposedly "open, free and emancipated" nature of present-day Lebanon and the reality of life for five working class women.

Reviews: Five things to get or see this month

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34

maj 08

1968 – anti-racist carnival – Naomi Klein – 60s radical prints – Liverpool culture fest

Tim Sanders + Keith Flett: Cartoon: A Peoples History of the World. 12: Iron

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35

maj 08

Nick Grant: Review – Books: Mike Cole: Marxism and Educational Theory (Web only)

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maj 08

In this idiosyncratic mix of personal memoir, agitational guide and theoretical history, Mike Cole sets out to explain precisely what capitalism expects of its education systems, and underscore the value of Marxism in challenging those priorities.

Sabby Sagall: Palestine: 60 years after the Nakba

325

maj 08

Sabby Sagall recently visited Palestine as part of a twinning project. Here he describes the daily struggles of Palestinians as they continue to resist the Israeli occupation.