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Contents (ISJ 135, Summer 2012)

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Contributors (ISJ 135, Summer 2012)

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Alex Callinicos: Analysis: The second coming of the radical left

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Crunch-time for the eurozone? – The second coming of the European radical left – Egypt: the revolution in danger

Jim Wolfreys: France after Sarkozy: Confronting the politics of despair

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In 1981 the joyous celebrations that greeted François Mitterran’ds election as president, on a radical reform programme, were an expression of widespread hope of significant change. Almost exactly 31 years later the mood following François Hollande’s victory over Nicolas Sarkozy could not have been more different. Hollande won on a modest promise of “fair austerity”.

Jen Roesch: The life and times of Occupy Wall Street

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Occupy Wall Street (OWS), and the Occupy movement that rapidly spread across the country in late September 2011, marked a watershed moment in the re-emergence of mass struggle and radical politics in the United States. In a matter of weeks, decades of accumulated bitterness and discontent found political expression and began to reshape national politics.

Judith Orr: Rochdale: an anatomy of the sexual abuse scandal

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The case of nine men convicted of appalling sexual exploitation of young women in Rochdale in north west England has unleashed a renewed tide of racism and Islamophobia.

Gareth Edwards: Interview: Resistance: the best Olympic spirit

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Dave Zirin is one of the most celebrated Marxists writing about sport today. He spoke to Gareth Edwards about the contradictory nature of the Olympic Games.

Jonathan Maunder: The Syrian crucible

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The Arab revolutions have been a great inspiration for the struggle against capitalism and imperialism across the world. However, the revolutionary process has developed unevenly across the region.

Simon Englert: The rise and fall of the Jewish Labour Bund

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The history of the Bund, or Algemeyner Yiddisher Arbeter Bund in Rusland un Poyln (General Jewish Labour Union in Russia and Poland), is one riven with contradictions.

Nigel Harris: Characterising the period

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It used to be that identifying the central contradiction of a historical period was seen by Marxists as the linchpin of all subsidiary analyses and strategies. But the general decay of theoretical concerns has made this unfashionable.

Colin Barker: Twenty five years of revolution

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It is almost a quarter of a century since Revolutionary Rehearsals was first published in 1987. The book focused on a number of important cases over the previous 20 years, in which a very particular possibility seemed to open up: namely that mass workers’ movements might challenge for state power.

Alex Callinicos: Daniel Bensaïd and the broken time of politics

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I am very conscious of the great honour of being invited to participate in this seminar as someone who did not belong to the same international current as Daniel Bensaïd and only got to know him in the last decade of his life.

Joseph Choonara: A reply to David McNally

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David McNally writes in response to my review of his Global Slump that we need “serious, committed debate designed to strengthen the theoretical and practical capacities of the left”. I agree.

Brian O’Boyle: Review: Clutching at straws? Some mainstream accounts of the crisis

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A review of Gillian Tett, Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted A Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Abacus, 2009), £8.99; Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics (Penguin, 2008), £9.99; and Joseph Stiglitz, Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy (Penguin, 2010), £9.99

Ian Birchall: Review: Grappling with the united front

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A review of John Riddell (ed), Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International 1922 (Brill, 2012), €199.00

Dan Swain: Review: It’s hard to be a saint in the city

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David Harvey, Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Verso, 2012), £12.99

Beatrice Leal: Review: Consuming culture

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David Campbell and Mark Durden, Variable Capital (Liverpool University Press, 2008), £28.50
The starting point for Variable Capital was an exhibition of the same name held at the Liverpool Bluecoat gallery in 2008. The book is not a catalogue though. It takes a selection of pieces, mostly by artists who took part in the exhibition but not all, and uses them to discuss various themes, for example, Hollywood, sex and recycling.

Sarah Young: Review: Capital ideas

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Sasha Lilley (ed), Capital and its Discontents (PM Press, 2011), £14.99
This book is a collection of interviews with left wing intellectuals conducted by its editor Sasha Lilley. One of its strengths is that Lilley is constantly concerned with what the left should be doing and how the ideas of those interviewed can be married with radical action.

Jack Farmer: Review: Dark mirror

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SS Prawer, Karl Marx and World Literature (Verso, 2011), £16.99
In a letter to his daughter Laura dated 11 April 1868, Marx wrote, “You’ll certainly fancy, my dear child, that I am very fond of books, because I trouble you with them at so unseasonable a time. But you would be quite mistaken. I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.”

Marieke Mueller: Review: Liberalism: theory and practice

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Domenico Losurdo, Liberalism: A Counter-History (Verso, 2011), £22

Shirin Hirsch: Review: Ethnic dissension

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Prodromos Panayiotopoulos, Ethnicity, Migration and Enterprise (Palgrave, 2010), £58

Julie Sherry: Review: Revolution revisited

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Stephen Eric Bronner, Socialism Unbound: Principles, Practices, and Prospects (Columbia University Press, 2011), £20.50
In this second edition of his book Socialism Unbound, Stephen Eric Bronner argues that liberalism cannot provide answers to the continuing problems of capitalism, and that “socialism remains on the agenda”. He states that “abstract definitions from times past no longer make sense” and that he aims to free socialism from “its authoritarian and parochial shackles”.

Jamie Pitman: Review: A citizen of whose world?

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David Held, Cosmopolitanism: Ideals and Realities (Polity, 2010), £15.99
History will tell whether David Held is best remembered for his role in developing the London School of Economics’ intimate relationship with the Gaddafi regime in Libya or for his voluminous body of work advocating a global turn towards “cosmopolitanism”.

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

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New Left Review – Irish Marxist Review – International Socialism conference: “Crisis, Class and Resistance”