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Contents (ISJ 107, Summer 2005)

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Notes on contributors (ISJ 107, Summer 2005)

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Chris Harman: Votes of no confidence

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The ‘no’ vote in the French and Dutch refendums. The loss of a million votes by New Labour in Britain’s election. The defeat of Germany’s social democrats in the state election in the Ruhr. One simple fact emerges from them all. Europe’s rulers are failing to find a popular constituency for neo-liberal policies at the centre of their agenda.

Jim Wolfreys: How France’s referendum caught fire

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Dragan Plavsic: Manufactured revolutions?

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Media excitement reached a pitch with multicoloured 'revolutions in Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, But what was really happening? Dragan Plavsic compares the changes to the overthrow of Milosevic in Serbia five years ago.

The Strangling of Africa

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Poverty, debt, trade, aid – Make Poverty History is stirring hundreds of thousands to protest over them. But New Labour wants to trap activists in a neo-liberal, free trade agenda. Gavin Capps, Charlie Kimber and Jacob Middleton analyse the real roots of poverty and lay the responsibility at the system run by the G8.
Introduction to these next 3 articles.

Gavin Capps: Africa: Redesigning the debt trap

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Poverty, debt, trade, aid – Make Poverty History is stirring hundreds of thousands to protest over them. But New Labour wants to trap activists in a neo-liberal, free trade agenda. Gavin Capps, Charlie Kimber and Jacob Middleton analyse the real roots of poverty and lay the responsibility at the system run by the G8.

Charlie Kimber: Africa: Aid, governance and exploitation

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Poverty, debt, trade, aid – Make Poverty History is stirring hundreds of thousands to protest over them. But New Labour wants to trap activists in a neo-liberal, free trade agenda. Gavin Capps, Charlie Kimber and Jacob Middleton analyse the real roots of poverty and lay the responsibility at the system run by the G8.

Jacob Middleton: Africa: Trading on poverty

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Poverty, debt, trade, aid – Make Poverty History is stirring hundreds of thousands to protest over them. But New Labour wants to trap activists in a neo-liberal, free trade agenda. Gavin Capps, Charlie Kimber and Jacob Middleton analyse the real roots of poverty and lay the responsibility at the system run by the G8.

Paul McGarr: On the road to catastrophe: Capitalism and climate change

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Climate change is now recognised to be a major threat to the world by everyone outside the Bush administration and oil giant Exxon. But greenhouse gases are pouring into the atmosphere in increasing quantities. Paul McGarr argues that there are easy solutions, but they cannot be achieved without militant anti-capitalist struggle.

Ian Birchall: Sartre’s century

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Jean-Paul Sartre was the dominant figure in French intellectual life for half a century and an inspiration to the new left of the 1950s and 1960s. Ian Birchall applauds his legacy on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.

Claudio Katz: Latin America’s new ‘left’ governments

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Latin America is increasingly at the sharp end of resistance to the global system. Supposedly left governments rule in Argentina, Brazil, and Uuguay. An uprising has just overthrown the Ecuadorian president Gutierrez. And there have been predictions of civil war in Bolivia. Argentinian Marxist Claudio Katz looks at the recent developments.

Simon Gilbert: China's strike wave

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China jumped into third place in the world export league last year. But it is also seeing a rarely reported wave of workers' struggles. Simon Gilbert describes it.

Mike Haynes: Rediscovering the revolution (Kevin Murphy: "Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory")

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A review of Kevin Murphy, Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory (Berghahn Books, 2005), £45

Megan Trudell: Rediscovering the revolution (Alexander Rabinowitch: "The Bolsheviks Come to Power: the Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd")

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A review of Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come to Power: the Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (Pluto Press, 2004), £12.99

Hassan Mahamdallie: More than the mosque (Humayun Ansari: "The Infidel Within: Muslims in Britain since 1800")

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A review of Humayun Ansari, The Infidel Within: Muslims in Britain since 1800 (Hurst & Company, 2004), £16.50

Mike Haynes: It can’t stop Blair (China Mieville: "Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law")

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A review of China Mieville, Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law (Brill, Historical Materialism book series, 2005), Euro 69

Hazel Croft: Pioneer of liberation

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A review of Barbara Taylor: "Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination" (Cambridge, 2003), £16.99 and Lyndall Gordon: "Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genus" (Virago, 2005), £25.

Dragan Plavsic: Yugoslavia: From markets to massacres

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A review of Michael Barratt Brown: "From Tito to Milosevic: Yugoslavia, a lost country" (Merlin Press, 2005), £14.95.

Helen Salmon: Digging the wrong way (John Landers: "The Field and the Forge")

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A review of John Landers, The Field and the Forge (Oxford University Press, 2005), £22.50.

Tony Staunton: Picking up the pieces (Iain Ferguson, Michael Lavalette and Elizabeth Whitmore (eds): "Globalisation, Global Justice and Social Work")

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A review of Iain Ferguson, Michael Lavalette and Elizabeth Whitmore (eds), Globalisation, Global Justice and Social Work (Routledge, 2005), £22.99.

Chris Harman: Booms, slumps and theory (Pavel V Maksakovsky: "The Capitalist Cycle")

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A review of Pavel V Maksakovsky, The Capitalist Cycle (Brill, Historical Materialism book series, 2004), Euro 59.

Esther Leslie: Novel insights (Julian Markels: "The Marxian Imagination: Representing Class in Literature")

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A review of Julian Markels, The Marxian Imagination: Representing Class in Literature (Monthly Review Press, 2003), £15.

John Newsinger: A fighter who got lost (Hugh Purcell: "The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham 1898-1949")

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A review of Hugh Purcell, The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham 1898-1949 (Sutton, 2005), £20.

Chris Harman: Pick of the quarter

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A regular survey of articles which readers will find useful. Some, although by no means all, are available on the web.

Gavin Capps: *WEB UPDATE* The new debt trap finalised

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Exclusive to the International Socialism website: Gavin Capps updates his article looking at Gordon Brown’s pronouncements following the meeting of the G7 finance ministers.