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Contents (ISJ 115, Summer 2007)

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Contributors (ISJ 115, Summer 2007)

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Analysis: Britain after Blair

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Is Gordon Brown going to run into an unexpected obstacle in his first weeks in office—a sudden revival of class struggle after the low ebb since the firefighters’ strike of four years ago? It seems very possible as we go to press.

Analysis: Sarkozy: the French Thatcher?

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“Sarkozy, Brown, Merkel. Neoliberalism has its people in power in the main European countries and is free to proceed full speed ahead as it wishes.” That, in effect, is what the optimistic capitalist commentators are saying, and this view finds its mirror image among pessimists on the left.

Nikos Loudos: Analysis: Greece: waves from the student struggle

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The right wing government in Greece is likely to call an early general election this autumn following a year of resistance by workers and students. A wave of student struggle began in May 2006 and continued through to April 2007, forming the focus for a wider workers’ movement which has blunted the government’s neoliberal offensive.

Robin Blackburn interview: What really ended slavery?

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Robin Blackburn, author of The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery 1776-1848, spoke to International Socialism on the bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

Aditya Sarkar: Nandigram and the deformations of the Indian left

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On 14 March this year, the state government of West Bengal, headed by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), sent several thousand police troops into the rural district of Nandigram in East Midnapur, the scene of a three-month movement by peasants against the establishment of a Special Economic Zone on their land.

John Newsinger: Gordon Brown: From Reformism to Neoliberalism

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“The distribution of income in Britain has now become so unequal that it is beginning to resemble a Third World country”, wrote Gordon Brown in his 1989 indictment of Thatcherism, Where There Is Greed.

Chris Harman: Gordon Brown: The economic "record"

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As Tony Blair departed and Gordon Brown prepared to take over as prime minister one great myth was boomed out by New Labour’s propaganda machine—that Brown had achieved a “miracle” for the British economy.

Mike Gonzalez: José Carlos Mariátegui: Latin America’s forgotten Marxist

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José Carlos Mariátegui was born into a society in crisis, a Peru deeply divided between a coastal sector where most of Peru’s capitalist class was concentrated, an emerging mining industry in the central valley between Lima and Huancavelica, and a mountain region which Mariátegui described as “semi-feudal”.

Alex Callinicos + Chris Nineham: At an impasse? Anti-capitalism and the social forums today

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The international movement against capitalist globalisation has been globally visible for nearly a decade now. The culmination was the enormous demonstrations against the war in Iraq between February and April 2003. Subsequently, however, there has not been the same forward impetus. Indeed, increasingly centrifugal pressures and even a degree of disarray have become evident.

Antoine Boulangé + Jim Wolfreys: France at the crossroads

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Prior to the presidential election of April/May 2007 France seemed to epitomise both the crisis facing mainstream politics in Europe and the potential of the developing movement against neoliberalism, which had scored a number of important victories. However, the election, when it came, appeared to confound such assumptions.

Chris Harman + Martin Smith: Kim Moody interview: The superpower’s shopfloor

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Kim Moody is the author of a new book on the American working class: US Labor in Trouble and Transition. He spoke to Martin Smith and Chris Harman about his research

Chris Harman: The rate of profit and the world today

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The “tendency of the rate of profit to fall” is one of the most contentious elements in Karl Marx’s intellectual legacy.1 He regarded it as one of his most important contributions to the analysis of the capitalist system.

John Molyneux: A revolution in paint: 100 years of Picasso’s Demoiselles

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This year marks the centenary of the painting of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso. There cannot be many paintings whose anniversary would occasion an analysis in a journal of socialist theory—nevertheless Les Demoiselles certainly repays serious consideration.

Ken Olende: The literature of a ravished continent: Achebe, Sembène and Ngugi

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During the late 1950s and early 1960s a wave of new literature emerged from a defiant Global South. Some of the best came from Africa, then caught up in a range of anti-colonial struggles and the promise of independence.

Andy Jones: Review: Snobs and snappers

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Steve Edwards, The Making of English Photography: Allegories (Penn State University Press, 2006), £56.50

Matt Perry: Review: An abstract view of the past

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David Laibman, Deep History: A Study in Social Evolution and Human Potential (SUNY, 2006), £42

Paul O’Brien: Review: Stalin’s Irish victims

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Barry McLoughlin, Left to the Wolves: Irish Victims of Stalinist Terror (Irish Academic Press, 2007), £20

Chris Bambery: Review: The making of an agitator

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Bryan D Palmer, James P Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left 1890-1928 (University of Illinois, 2007), £29

Ian Birchall: Review: New Left Review: The search for theory

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Duncan Thompson, Pessimism of the Intellect? A History of New Left Review (Merlin), £16.95

Chris Harman: Review: The merchant and the Middle Ages

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Eric H Mielants, The Origins of Capitalism and the “Rise of the West” (Temple University Press, 2007), £30

Viren Swami: Review: Professor Jekyll and Comrade Hyde

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Andrew Brown, J D Bernal: The Sage of Science (Oxford University Press, 2007), £12.99

Naz Massoumi: Review: Persian proletariat

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Andreas Malm and Shora Esmailian, Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War (Pluto, 2007), £17.99

Kate Connelly: Review: A handbook for activism

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David McNally, Another World is Possible (Merlin, 2007), £12.95

Iain Ferguson: Review: Revamping old formulas

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Gregor Gall (ed), Is there a Scottish Road to Socialism? (Scottish Left Review, 2007), £9.99

Joseph Choonara: Review: Marx's "transformation" made easy

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Andrew Kliman, Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital”: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency (Lexington, 2007), £17.99

Chris Harman: Review: 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.