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Contents (ISJ 116, Autumn 2007)

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Contributors (ISJ 116, Autumn 2007)

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Analysis: Market turmoil: The shape of the chaos to come?

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Analysis: Where will the Brown bounce land?

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Gordon Brown has got his honeymoon with the voters—or at least with enough of them for him to consider calling an early general election. He has not changed a single one of Tony Blair’s major policies. But the disappearance of some of the most unpopular ministerial faces has been enough to boost his poll ratings.

Analysis: The shifting fronts of Bush’s war

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When Gordon Brown took over from Blair the biggest obstacle to refurbishing the image of New Labour was the war in Iraq. It remains an obstacle, despite the British withdrawal of troops from the centre of Basra to the airport outside the city—effectively a recognition of defeat in the effort to control the south of the country. But the one thing Brown did not dare say was that this marked the end of British involvement. For that would have been seen as withdrawing moral support for George Bush’s war.

The return of the working class: Introduction

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If the commentators and academic theorists are to be believed, the growth of global capitalism has as a necessary correlate a reduction in the level of working class struggle.

Claire Ceruti: The return of the working class: South Africa: rebirth of a mass movement

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Strike days reached a low of 500,000 in 2003 and inched up from there to 2.9 million last year. The latest strike report from Andrew Levy Consultants claims 11 million strike days for the first half of this year alone.

The return of the working class: Interview: Egypt’s strike wave

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Sameh Naguib, an Egyptian socialist, spoke to International Socialism about the current strike movement and its political backdrop, including the role of the million-strong Muslim Brotherhood.

Kevin Murphy: Can we write the history of the Russian Revolution?

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This Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture was delivered in London, November 2006. The prize was awarded for Kevin Murphy’s book, "Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory"

Mike Haynes: The uncertain return of Russian power

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Is the Cold War returning? Relations between Russia and the West now are at their lowest point since the mid-1980s, and some in the West are happy to interpret this as an impending return to the days of the Cold War. Under Vladimir Putin Russia has begun to recover from the low point of its “transition” in August 1998 when it defaulted on its $40 billion debt and the rouble lost 60 percent of its value in two months.

Stefan Bornost: Germany’s political earthquake

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Stefan Bornost, editor of the magazine marx21, spoke to International Socialism about the growth of German’s new left wing party.

Neil Faulkner: Gordon Childe and Marxist archaeology

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It may not be an accident that Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957), perhaps the greatest archaeologist of the 20th century, committed suicide within a year of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. For Childe was not just a leading academic, prehistorian and social theorist; he was also, throughout his adult life, an active and deeply committed socialist, but one who retained illusions in Stalinism to the end.

Mike Gonzalez: Interview: Venezuela—tensions within the process

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Mike Gonzalez has written on Venezuela in this journal and elsewhere. Following his recent visit he answered questions from International Socialism about the latest developments.

Gareth Dale: “On the menu or at the table”: corporations and climate change

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“Another World Is Possible!” announces a placard held by a demonstrator on an unspecified global justice movement protest. The photograph is the background graphic of an advert. Above it the Shell logo. The advert is for a conference sponsored by the oil giant, entitled “Climate Change: Is Business Doing Enough?”

Pepijn Brandon: Bourgeois revolution: The Dutch Revolt: a social analysis

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The Dutch Revolt of the 16th century is probably the most neglected of the “classical” bourgeois revolutions. But this has not always been the case. In the years immediately preceding the French Revolution the Dutch Revolt even became something of a cause celebre.

Mike Wayne: Theses on realism and film

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Mike Wayne provides a defence of realism in film, and a critique of misuse of the term.

Anne Alexander: Review: Iraq's women: more than victims

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Nadje Al-Ali, Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (Zed Books, 2007), £14.99

Donny Gluckstein: Review: Last writings of the party favourite

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Nikolai Bukharin, Socialism and its Culture (Berg, 2007), £16.99

Sadie Robinson: Review: Exposing the myths of Bush's wars

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Achin Vanaik (ed), Selling US Wars (Aris, 2007), £10.99
Selling US Wars is a collection of essays by authors such as Susan George, Walden Bello and Mike Marqusee, which challenges the arguments through which the US has sought to justify the “war on terror”.

Ian Birchall: Review: Debray's memoirs: tears of a clown

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Régis Debray, Praised Be Our Lords (Verso, 2007), £19.99
Régis Debray first came to prominence in the 1960s when he published various articles and a short book, Revolution in the Revolution?, about guerrilla struggles in Latin America.

Paul McGarr: Review: Accounting for the environment

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Paul Burkett, Marxism and Ecological Economics (Historical Materialism Book Series, Brill, 2006), £48.30
Paul Burkett, along with John Bellamy Foster, is one of the Marxists who has done most to engage with the ideas and the theorists to emerge from what might broadly be called the green or environmental movement.

Adrian Budd: Review: Saull's Cold War: not such hot stuff

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Richard Saull, The Cold War and After: Capitalism, Revolution and Superpower Politics (Pluto, 2007), £22.50
Richard Saull’s new book provides a comprehensive analysis of the history and dynamics of the Cold War and of the world order that emerged after its end. Unlike many mainstream accounts Saull explores the Cold War as a global rather than primarily European phenomenon.

Barry Pavier: Review: Passionate impasse: subaltern studies

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David Hardiman, Histories for the Subordinated (Seagull, 2007), £18.99
This is a selection of David Hardiman’s key writings, published between 1984 and 1996. They were all informed by his association with the influential and controversial Subaltern Studies project, which produced a series of 12 volumes of essays between 1982 and 2002.

John Newsinger: Review: Campbell's blood money

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Alastair Campbell, The Blair Years: Extracts from Alastair Campbell Diaries (Hutchinson, 2007), £25

Ben Selwyn: Review: Workers’ power under global capitalism

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Beverly J Silver, Forces of Labour: Workers' Movements and Globalisation since 1870 (Cambridge University, 2003), £16.99
Beverly Silver has written an important, accessible and I think excellent book that contributes significantly to our understanding of workers’ bargaining power under global capitalism.

Martin Empson: Review: The rubbish barons

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Heather Rogers, Gone Tomorrow, the Hidden Life of Garbage (New Press, 2005), £8.99
On average each American produces almost 4.2 pounds (2 kg) of rubbish a day. Almost a third of this is packaging.

Chris Harman: Review: Shedding some light on Lenin

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Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis and Slavoj Zizek (eds), Lenin Reloaded: Towards a Politics of Truth (Duke University, 2007), £12.99

Jonathan Maunder: Review: Return of the one-state solution

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Jamil Hilal (ed), Where now for Palestine? The Demise of the Two-State Solution (Zed Books, 2007), £17.99

This collection of essays by a variety of academics is a significant development in the debate over the possibility of a “one state” (or “bi-national”) solution to the “Palestinian problem”.

Ruth Tenne: Review: Rising of the oppressed: the second Intifada

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Ramzy Baroud, The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle (Pluto, 2006), £15.99
The unique strength of Ramzy Baroud’s book lies in its masterful weaving of personal experience and feelings into a meticulous and powerful account of the second Palestinian uprising.

Tom Whittaker: Review: Paris 1961: a hidden massacre

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Jim House and Neil McMaster, Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror and Memory (Oxford University, 2006), £60
Leaving aside situations of insurrection, revolution or civil war, the massacre of Algerian demonstrators that took place from 17 to 20 October 1961 in Paris constitutes “the bloodiest act of state repression of street protest in Western Europe in modern history”.

Matthew Beaumont: Review: Sci-fi and struggle

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Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (Verso, 2005), £14.99

Vladimir Unkovski-Korica: Review: Hello Lenin, goodbye Lenin!

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Archie Brown, Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2007), £25
Archie Brown is credited with being the first person to advise Margaret Thatcher about the likely accession of Mikhail Gorbachev as a radical reformer to the post of general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He is seen, therefore, as one of the few Sovietologists to accurately predict imminent and far reaching change in the USSR.

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.