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Food prices: a crime against humanity (Text)

Food prices: a crime against humanity (pdf)

Briefings (PDF)

NUT action / Academy strikes show the way / Abortion vote – only a temporary victory / US dockers against imperialism’s wars / Convention of the Left / Italy – right rules the roost / Zimbabwe / Bolivia – right wing elite on offensive / Self-determination for Tibetan people

Britain / The fag end of New Labour (Text)

Britain / The fag end of New Labour (pdf)

The lowest ever share of the vote in the May local elections and the first by-election gain for the Tories against Labour for 30 years. Things can only get better? The class alliances that brought Blair to power and kept him there are fast fragmenting. But why is it the Tories who are benefitting, not the left? Mark Hoskisson explains

1968 / An excess of history

1968 Excess of history (pdf)

International student protests, French general strike, a mass anti-war movement, uprisings against Stalinism. What linked them all? Keith Harvey and Stuart King assess the legacy of a turbulent year.

France 68 / Everything was possible (Text)

France (pdf)

A Friday night in May and French students tear up cobblestones in Paris and build barricades. Within days millions of workers are on general strike. Emile Gallet and Christina Duval examine why France was ripe for an explosion.

China (pdf)

Economy / China syndrome - (Text)

The left seems incapable of coming to terms with the magnitude of the rise of Chinese capitalism. Bill Jefferies and Keth Harvey address the arguments of those who see its growth as dependent on the US and just another bubble about to burst

Venezuela / Interview with Orlando Chirino (Text)

Venezuela / Interview with Orland Chirino (pdf)

Orlando Chirino is a national co-ordinator of the largest Venezuelan trade union federation the UNT. In this extended interview he surveys the current state of the class struggle in Venezuela, in particular the role of trade unions in the “Bolivarian revolution”.

Venezuela / Images of the class struggle (Text)

Venezuela / Images of the class struggle (pdf)

This spring Wladek Flakin spent several weeks in Venezuela going to strike meetings and talking to activists.
Here are his impressions.

Feedback

David Walters says the left should say “yes” to nuclear power (Text)

David Walters says the left should say "yes" to nuclear power (pdf)

Reviews (PDF)

Revolution and Counter-Revolution by Kevin Murphy / Marxist History-Writing for the 21st Century by Chris Wickham / If I Am Not For Myself by Mike Marquesee / China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation by David Shambaugh / Connolly's Life; Between Comrades ed. Donal Nevin / High Jinks – the cinema of ’68,

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