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Contents (ISJ 131, Summer 2011)

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Contributors (ISJ 131, Summer 2011)

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Alex Callinicos: Unsteady as she goes

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For a while the high priests of capitalism congratulated themselves on the robustness of the economic recovery. Financial markets soared and there was euphoria about the robust expansion of the “emerging market” economies of the Global South. But in the past few weeks it has begun to sink in that the world economy is locked into a crisis that is far from over.

Martin Smith: Britain’s trade unions: the shape of things to come

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The past has been
A mint of blood and sorrow—
That must not be
True of tomorrow.
Langston Hughes wrote the short poem “History”, just as the US labour movement rose like a phoenix out of the ashes of the devastation of the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Richard Seymour: The Tories: An anatomy

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After 13 years of exile the Conservative Party has returned to office, but weaker than ever and dependent on a coalition with the Liberals.

Anne Alexander: The growing social soul of Egypt’s democratic revolution

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This article is a preliminary and incomplete account of an unfinished revolution. It represents a first attempt to explore the implications of the great wave of strikes and social protests which preceded Mubarak’s fall from power and dominated the first months of the revolution.

Gareth Jenkins: Culture and multiculturalism

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Multiculturalism is once more under attack. David Cameron’s speech, delivered in Germany on 5 February 2011 at a European governmental conference on security, repeated many familiar criticisms of multiculturalism.

Maina van der Zwan: Geert Wilders and the rise of the new radical right

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“If someone in England stands up and establishes a party which positions itself between the racist BNP and the conservatives, it would also get 20 percent of the vote. I would very much like to establish parties in other countries. The people want it. An anti-Islam wave that is unstoppable.”
A week before this comment by the leading Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, the English Defence League announced it was considering standing candidates in national and council elections.

Tim Evans: The Great Unrest and a Welsh town

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The key confrontation of Britain’s first national railway strike—for better pay and an end to an unfair arbitration system—occurred on Saturday 19 August 1911 in Llanelli, a tinplate-producing town in south west Wales.

Joseph Choonara: Feedback: The relevance of permanent revolution: A reply to Neil Davidson

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Leon Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution formed in its author’s mind during Russia’s 1905 Revolution—between 9 January, when workers marched to the Winter Palace to petition the Tsar, and the mass strikes of October that gave birth to the Petrograd Soviet.

Paul Blackledge: Feedback: Anarchism, syndicalism and strategy: A reply to Lucien van der Walt

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Lucien van der Walt’s reply to my “Marxism and Anarchism” marks a welcome step forward beyond the all too familiar “non-debate” between Marxist and anarchist tendencies on the revolutionary left.

Joseph Choonara + Ian Birchall: Talkin’ ‘bout a revolutionary

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Joseph Choonara spoke to Ian Birchall, author of Tony Cliff: A Marxist for his Time (Bookmarks, 2011), which looks at the life of the founder of the International Socialist tradition,

Peyman Jafari: Review: Behind the masks

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Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks (Pluto Press, 2011), £14.99
Hamid Dabashi is a prolific writer and an engaged scholar. He has written extensively on Iran, Islam and cinema. Recently, many have come to know Dabashi through his relentless support for the pro-democracy struggle in Iran against its authoritarian rulers.

G Francis Hodge: Review: Interrogating empire

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Gopal Balakrishnan, Antagonistics: Capitalism and Power in an Age of War (Verso, 2009) £14.99
Reading Antagonistics is a contradictory experience. Written by US academic Gopal Balakrishnan, currently on the editorial board of New Left Review, the book is on one hand a theoretically dense interrogation of several contemporary (and some not so contemporary) thinkers on international politics. On the other, it is a frustrating exercise in mining through prose so turgidly impenetrable as to render its potentially excellent essays virtually inaccessible to all but academics and specialists.

Simon Englert: Review: This time it’s personal

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Illan Pappe, Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel (Pluto, 2010), £13
In this excellent book, the Israeli academic Illan Pappe breaks from his usual style to offer a mixture of personal stories, general overviews, historical insights and fictional accounts to paint a clear and damning picture of the state of critical thought in Israel.

Amy Gilligan: Review: Science and industry

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David Knight, The Making of Modern Science (Polity, 2009), £17.99
There prevails in society the notion that the practice of science is somehow objective and neutral. However, when we look at the way funding is allocated and what research is undertaken it quickly becomes clear that this is not the case. By looking at the history of science we can see this is not a new development.

Luke Evans: Review: Karl Marx in Wonderland

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Simon Choat, Marx Through Post Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze (Continuum, 2010), £65
In this book, Simon Choat analyses the relationship between the ideas of four “post-structuralist” thinkers—Jean-Francoise Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze—and the works of Karl Marx.

Jonny Jones + Alex Callinicos: Pick of the quarter: This quarter’s selection

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New Left Review – Historical Materialism – Monthly Review