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Editorial (ISJ 62, Spring 1994)

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[Contents]

Sharon Smith: Mistaken identity-or can identity politics liberate the oppressed?

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mar 94

Oppression is part of daily life, whatever the right wing may say. Women, blacks, lesbians and gays are only some of those who, for instance, suffer discrimination in jobs and housing, are pilloried in the press and subject to physical assault. But how are we to fight oppression? Is an aggressive assertion of, say, the gay or black identity, enough? And do groups based on identity politics, like Queer Nation in the United States, provide a strategy for liberation?
American socialist Sharon Smith looks for the historical roots of identity politics and goes on to challenge the `post-Marxist' theoreticians whose work underpins the practice of identity politics.

Iain Ferguson: Containing the crisis: crime and the Tories

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mar 94

Crime was to be the stalking horse for a Tory government whose every other policy has failed. But within months of the Tories' get tough policy being announced it all began to go horribly wrong. Now everyone from chief constables to prison officers thinks that the government has got it wrong. Iain Ferguson investigates.

John Newsinger: Orwell and the Spanish Revolution

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mar 94

George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" is quite simply one of the best books ever written about revolution. But it has always suffered attack from sections of the left-Stalinists then and some feminists today. John Newsinger looks at the history of the Spanish Revolution, Orwell's politics and the reaction of his critics.

Chris Harman: Change at the first millenium (Guy Bois: "The Transformation of the Year One Thousand")

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mar 94

Guy Bois's investigation of the birth of feudalism

Adrian Budd: Nation and empire: Labour's foreign policy 1945-51 (John Saville: "The Politics of Continuity. British Foreign Policy and the Labour Government 1945-51")

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mar 94

Gareth Jenkins: Novel questions (Malcolm Bradbury: "The Modern British Novel" + D J Taylor: "After the War: The Novel and England since 1945")

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mar 94

The 20th century novel is examined by Gareth Jenkins

Judy Cox: Blake's revolution (E P Thompson: "Witness Against the Beast, William Blake and the Moral Law")

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mar 94

EP Thompson's study of revolutionary poet William Blake

Derek Howl: Bookwatch: the Russian Revolution

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mar 94

Bookwatch looks at the history of the Russian Revolution.