Focus
The French Left •
Square Leg •
On the wages front
Labour's Long Haul
Jon Bloomfield
The Blackpool Conference ushered in the most important constitutional
changes in the Labour Party since 1918. The election of Michael Foot as
leader of the PLP has broken the continuity of right-wing leadership.
Jon Bloomfield, author of Passive Revolution and until recently Birmingham
City Secretary of the Communist Party assesses the nature of the changes
taking place in the Labour Party — and argues that there is a long
way to go.
Import Controls
- on the Left's terms
Paul Levine
Suddenly import controls are on the political agenda. Long part of the
Left's perspective, others have now joined the fray including sections
of Labour's Right and some parts of industry particularly threatened by
imports. Paul Levine, a lecturer in economics at South Bank Polytechnic,
shows why they are necessary and why they constitute an essential component
of the Left's strategy.
West German Social
Democracy:
the erosion of the socialist vision
Rob Burns and Wilfried van der Will
The West German SPD rebuffed the challenge from Strauss. It is indisputably
the most successful social democratic party in West Europe. But it has
steadily distanced itself from a socialist perspective. Rob Burns and
Wilfred van der Will, lecturers at the Universities of Warwick and Birmingham
respectively, analyse the character of the SPD.
Interview with Edward
Bond
Edward Bond is one of Britain's leading playwrights whose works include
Saved and The Fool.
In this interview he discusses his own development as a socialist playwright
and the role of the artist in contemporary society. The interview was
conducted by Colin Chambers, the theatre critic of the Morning Star and
author of Other Spaces: New Theatre and the RSC.
Discussion
The Forward Face of Feminism
Hilary Wainwright
One of the authors of Beyond the Fragments discusses the article
published in October.
Reviews
Michelene Wandor — Other
Spaces: New Theatre and the RSC.
John Westergaard — Labour
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Guinea-Bissau Coup
Bob Rowthorn
The Politics of the
Alternative Economic Strategy
For the first time in its history, the Left is now regarded as a
serious political alternative. At the centre of this credibility
is the alternative economic strategy. Bob Rowthorn, member of our
editorial board recently awarded the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize
for his book Capitalism, Conflict and Inflation, examines its strengths
and weaknesses and argues that the Left must see it as part of an
overall political approach.
Interview with Ted
Knight
Cuts in public expenditure are a central feature of the Right's
policy to deal with Britain's economic crisis. The struggle against
those cuts is a key element of the fightback. The stand taken by
the London Borough of Lambeth has been notable in this respect.
In this interview, Ted Knight, Leader of Lambeth Council, assesses
the success and problems of its stand. Jeff Rodrigues, Secretary
of Lambeth Borough Communist Party, conducted the interview.
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe
Socialist Strategy
- Where Next?
The seventies saw major innovations in revolutionary strategy. By
and large, though, these advances were political rather than theoretical.
In this article, Ernesto Laclau, author of Politics and Ideology
in Marxist Theory and Chantal Mouffe, who edited Gramsci and Marxist
Theory, look at the theoretical evolution of revolutionary strategy
and consider the next stage.
Simon Frith
John Lennon
The tragic death of John Lennon has robbed us of one of the truly
great figures of postwar British culture. John Lennon, of all the
Beatles, symbolised and helped to shape the great progressive changes
of the sixties. Simon Frith, author of The Sociology of Rock and
writer for the Melody Maker, considers John Lennon's achievement.
Discussion
Jill Brown, Pamela Trevithick, Carol Metters
The Forward Face
of Feminism
The authors continue the discussion
Lynn Garafola
American Culture
- a cop out
The author looks at David Edgar's article which appeared in our
October issue.
Reviews
Tom Litterick — The
Shattered Peace.
Pat Seyd — Labour
in Power? British Social Democracy, A Short History of the Labour
Party.
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Local Government Finance
• Sexual Violence
David Plotke
Reagan: is it as bad
as it sounds?
A right-wing Republican is now US President. American politics has
shifted to the right. David Plotke, an editor of the American journal
Socialist Review, examines the extent of this shift and the prospects
for the US and the world with Reagan in the White House.
Fred Steward
The Politics of Technology
Technological issues are now big politics. A few examples —microprocessing,
nuclear power, Concorde, juggernauts — suffice to make the point.
Fred Steward, a lecturer in technology policy at Aston University
and member of the Communist Party's Science and Technology Committee,
looks at why technology has become such a hot political and social
question — and argues that the Left must develop a coherent
view on the direction and control of technology.
Tony Lane
Merseyside under the
hammer
Jarrow and the South Wales mining villages both evoke memories of
the thirties depression. Merseyside threatens to become a symbol of
unemployment in the eighties. Tony Lane, at present a research officer
for the TGWU based in Liverpool and author of The Unions Make us Strong,
looks at Merseyside's plight and the growth of resistance.
Discussion
Dan Smith
Goodbye to Detente?
The co-editor of Protest and Survive and former vice-chairperson of
CND looks at the decline of detente.
Jane Darke
Architecture: the past
fights back
A response to Richard Hill's article in our November issue.
Johanna Wilson
Import Controls - on
the Left's terms
The author argues that Import Controls can play only a limited role.
Reviews
Paul Levine — The
Alternative Economic Strategy.
There is an Alternative. The British
Economic Disaster.
Victor Kiernan — Scottish
Capitalism.
Alan Hunt — Pashukanis:
Selected Writings on Marxism and Law.
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• Trade Union
Immunities • El
Salvador
Jean Gardiner
Women, Recession and
the Tories
Women made important advances in the seventies. Now Thatcherism and
recession have changed all that: women are under attack. Jean Gardiner,
a member of our editorial board andco-author of The Political Economy
of British Capitalism, looks at what is happening.
Dave Triesman
Football in Decline
Football is Britain's great national winter sport. Yet it faces growing
difficulties. Dave Triesman, a writer on sport, argues that football
is in decline and only radical solutions can tackle the problem.
Piero Borghini
Italy: the intractable
crisis
Italy faces the most serious political crisis in Western Europe. Piero
Borghini, a member of the Central Committee of the Italian Communist
Party, looks at the nature of that crisis and the PCI's strategy.
Interview with Alan
Fisher
Cuts in public expenditure have put the public sector unions at the
centre of attention. NUPE is one of the largest. In this interview,
Alan Fisher, General Secretary of NUPE and Chairman of the TUC, discusses
the problems facing NUPE and the trade union movement generally.
Francis Mulhern
The Cambridge Affair
Suddenly, the English Faculty atCambridge University has hit the national
headlines. Francis Mulhern, author of The Moment of 'Scrutiny', discusses
the issues involved.
Discussion
Bill Laughlan
Labour's Long Haul
The author discusses the implications of developments in the Labour
Party for the Communist Party.
Reviews
Dave Cook — Politics
and Power 2
David Parker — Ideology
and Popular Protest
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The Budget •
Education Cuts
Interview with Arthur
Scargill
Since Thatcher took office the trade union movement has been on
the defensive. The recent victory by the miners marked the first
real break. It raised the spectre of 1970-74. In this interview,
Arthur Scargill, the President of the Yorkshire Miners, looks at
the significance of the Tory retreat, the problems now facing the
labour movement, and longer term strategy.
The interview was conducted by Dave Priscott, a member of the Executive
Committee of the Communist Party and our Editorial Board.
Stuart Hall
The'Little Caesars'
of Social Democracy
The Council for Social Democracy represents the most important 'breakaway'
from the Labour Party since 1931. Its avowed objective is a realignment
of British politics and the emergence of the 'centre' as the dominant
political force. In this article, Stuart Hall, co-author of Policing
The Crisis, looks at its nature and significance.
Japan: the Right on
the Offensive
The seventies saw major advances by the Japanese Left. Now the Right
is on the offensive. But the Liberal Democrats underlying position
is much weaker. In this special interview for Marxism Today, Koichiro
Ueda, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist
Party, examines political developments in the world's second most
powerful capitalist country.
Stephen Sedley
The Growing Police
Challenge
The Police force has adopted an increasingly independent and strident
position on law and order. The latest example is the Royal Commission
on Criminal Procedure. Stephen Sedley, a barrister, looks at what
is involved.
Discussion
Adam Sharpies
The Politics of the Alternative Economic Strategy
The author, who works for the Labour Party's Research Department,
discusses Bob Rowthorn's article in the January issue.
Paul Nicholls
Goodbye to Detente?
The discussion continues.
Reviews
Tamara Deutscher — Chinese
Revolutionary
Vic Allen — Challenge
to Power
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The 364 Economists
• People's
March for Jobs • Bondage
Judge Shakes Giscard
Sam Aaronovitch Unemployment
- halting the slide There are now some 2.5 million officially
unemployed. The prospect is for a further big
increase. Unemployment has become a central issue in British politics.
It will dominate the eighties. Sam Aaronovitch, author of The Road
From Thatcherism and a member of the
Communist Party Economic Committee, looks at the causes of unemployment,
how it can be
fought and what kind of policies are needed to tackle it.
Paul Olive Realignment
- the case of the Liberals The Liberal Party, although only
a small parliamentary force, has consistently retained a significant
electoral base. That base, moreover, has over the years been expanding.
Now, with the emergence of the SDP, the Liberals are in a new position.
Paul Olive, a Morning Star reporter, looks at the Liberal Party
and its likely prospects.
John Mathews The Politics
of Cancer
Cancer is one of the big killers. But can anything be done about
it? John Mathews, untilrecently a trade union health and safety
researcher, argues that environmental factors are the key problem.
Jamaica in Turmoil
The recent election saw the defeat of Manley and a victory for the
Right. In this interview,
Trevor Munro, general secretary of the Jamaican Workers Party, discusses
the gravity of the setback, the reasons for it and what is likely
to happen now. The interview was conducted by Ken Fuller.
Discussion
John Harrison The
Politics of the Alternative Economic Strategy
The co-author of The British Economic Disaster argues that the alternative
economic strategy is too mild.
Tom Durkin Goodbye
to Detente?
The author takes
issue with previous contributions.
Reviews
Richard Johnson - Arguments Within English Marxism: One Dimensional
Marxism -
Althusser and the Politics of Culture
Bernard Dix -
The Road From Thatcherism
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Local Elections
Tony Bunyan
The Growing Power of
the Military
Traditionally, the armed forces have largely been excluded from civil
life in Britain. That is
beginning to change. Tony Bunyan, author of The Political Police in
Britain and a member of the editorial group of State Research, looks
at the way the military is steadily encroaching on domestic politics
and what this means.
John Kelly
Steel - an irreversible
decline?
The decline of British Steel has been one of the most dramatic examples
of deindustrialisation. John Kelly, a lecturer in industrial relations
and researcher on the steel industry, looks at the causes of its decline,
the trade union response and what kind of alternative is needed.
Rodney Hilton
The English Rising of
1381
In 1381 there was an extraordinary uprising against the established
authorities. It was broad, it was far reaching and its consequences
were profound. On the 600th Anniversary of the 'Peasant's Revolt',
Rodney Hilton, Professor of History at Birmingham University, looks
at what it was and what forces lay behind it.
US Policy Toward Latin
America
Reagan's foreign policy is aimed at restoring American power and influence.
Latin America
occupies a central position in this design. The objective is to roll
back the progressive
advances. In this interview, Saul Landau, co-author of Assassination
on Embassy Row, looks at some of the issues. The interview was conducted
by Mike Gatehouse.
Discussion
Sam Russell, Ian Davison
Goodbye to Detente?
In these contributions to the discussion, the Foreign Editor of the
Morning Star and the
secretary of the Scottish CND respectively, look at some new questions.
Brian Nichols
The Politics of the
Alternative Economic Strategy
The author looks at the relationship between the alternative economic
strategy and the fight against the cuts.
Reviews
Raymond Williams — George
Orwell, A Life
Andrew Chester — Memoirs
of a Socialist Business Man
Eileen Phillips — Microelectronics:
Capitalist Technology and the Working Class
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SNP • Civil
Service Dispute
Brenda Kirsch
Brixton and After
Within the space of a year there have been two serious clashes between
the police and a local community. Brenda Kirsch, who is active in
Lambeth politics and was a member of the Lambeth Inquiry into Police-Community
Relations, examines the underlying causes of the Brixton disturbances
and some of its longer term implications.
Interview with Wynne
Godley
The Cambridge Economic Policy Group has an unrivalled reputation
for medium term
economic forecasting. It has been a strong critic of the Tory government's
deflationary policies and, for some time, a proponent of import
controls. In this interview, Wynne Godley, the Director of the Group,
discusses the impact of Tory policies, the prospects for the British
economy and possible alternative policies, including those of the
Left. The interview was conducted by Bob Rowthorn, a member of our
Editorial Board, and Dave Currie.
Dave Laing
The Music Industry
in Crisis
The self confidence of the large record companies in the sixties
has given way to gloom and pessimism in the eighties. Dave Laing,
a writer on popular music, looks at the reasons for the decline
and what the Left's response should be.
Graham Trickey
Reproducing Royalty
In the month of the Royal Wedding, Graham Trickey, aMoming Star
journalist, asks what its all about.
Discussion
Bert Ramelson
Poland
The author argues that the Polish Communist Party is going through
a process of renewal.
Judith Bloomfield
Italy
The author discusses the strategy of the Italian Communist Party.
Reviews
Caroline
Rowan — Women
Workers in the First World War. The
Politics of Motherhood.
Mark Harrison — Stalin's
Successors: Leadership, Stability and Change in the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union Since Stalin.
Ouanie Bain — Silver
Linings.
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Claret and Blue
• University
Cuts • Riots
and the Police
Keith Cowling
Can the British Car
Industry Survive?
The decline of the British car industry is without parallel in Western
Europe. The one surviving British manufacturer, BL, is literally
fighting for its life. Keith Cowling, Professor of Economics at
Warwick University, examines the causes of the decline and how the
industry might be saved.
Vicky Seddon
Violence Against Women:
male power in action
The Yorkshire Ripper case suddenly made violence against women a
national issue. Yet it is not a new phenomenon: it is an everyday
threat. Vicky Seddon looks at its roots and what needs to be done.
Interview with Georges
Seguy
The French elections marked the most important election victory
for the Left in Western Europe since the immediate postwar period.
In this interview, Georges Seguy, general secretary of the CGT,
France's largest trade union centre, discusses the problems and
possibilities.
Monty Johnstone
Is the Marxist Tradition
Democratic?
The question of democracy is central to political advance in Western
Europe. But is the Marxist tradition adequate to the task?
Discussion
Dave Forman
The Politics of Cancer
The author argues that cancer has many causes — and therefore
a many-sided strategy is called for.
Reviews
Peter Higgins — What
Unemployment Means. The Workless State.
Mike Potter — Towards
Socialist Welfare Work.
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Training
The TUC
West German Peace
Movement
The PLO
Keith Dixon and Daniel Perraud
France Moves Left
The Left has finally ended over two decades of uninterrupted government
by the FrenchRight. The recent elections could prove to be the most
important for the European Left since 1945. The authors, both members
of the French Communist Party, analyse the reasons for the
Left victory, why the Communist Party fared badly, and likely prospects.
Mark Harrison
Defence: the Tory
dilemma
The Thatcher government promised major improvements in Britain's
defence capacity. In the event, they have presided over a series
of not insignificant cuts. The author, a lecturer in economics
at Warwick University, looks at the Tory dilemma.
Simon Watney
Picasso
The present exhibition at the Hayward Gallery is a reminder of Picasso's
unchallenged position as the greatest artist of the twentieth century.
Simon Watney, author of English Post-Impressionism, looks at Picasso's
achievement.
David Winchester
Trade Unions and the
Recession
The new climate of mass unemployment and Thatcherism has put the
trade unions on the defensive. David Winchester, lecturer in industrial
relations at Warwick University, looks at the present state of the
trade union movement and how it is responding.
Discussion
Ray Chatwin Brixton
and After
An examination of police-black relations.
PE Demetriou
The Music Industry
in Crisis
The author looks at independent labels.
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John Allen —
Britain's Black Population
— Labour and Racism.
Jeremy Hawthorn
— Essays on
Realism
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Tabloid War
POLAND: COOPERATION OR CONFRONTATION?
Interview with Mieczyslaw
Rakowski
Over the last year Poland has captured the world's headlines. The
formation of Solidarity
created a situation unique in Eastern Europe. The country continues
to lurch from one crisis to the next. Mieczyslaw Rakowski is Deputy
Premier and the government's chief negotiator with Solidarity. In
this interview he discusses relations with Solidarity and Poland's
prospects for the future.
Interview with Lech
Walesa
The leader of Solidarity discusses its role and relationship to
the state. Both interviews were conducted exclusively for Marxism
Today in September by Monty Johnstone.
Jeff Rodrigues
The Riots of '81
This summer's riots have had a traumatic impact on the whole country.
And their longer term consequences remain very unclear. The article
examines some of the issues involved.
George Rude
The Riots in History
The author of The Crowd in History looks at some historical precedents
for the recent riots.
Jean Gardiner and Sheila Smith
Feminism and the Alternative
Economic Strategy
The alternative economic strategy has not only won the support of
much of the labour
movement but also gained wider recognition. It remains, however,
at a rather general level.
Here Jean Gardiner, co-author of The Political Economy of British
Capitalism, and SheilaSmith, discuss what it should offer women.
Dave Priscott
Can Labour Succeed?
The Labour Left has, over the past two years, made impressive advances.
Yet the Right
remains a powerful force, and there are signs of a major electoral
crisis facing Labour. Dave Priscott, a member of the Editorial Board,
looks at some of the questions.
Channel Five
The BBC Under Pressure
— Jonathan Coe
Sports Centres
— Chris Lightbown
The Odeon Closures
— John Ellis
Reviews
Cynthia Cockburn — Slump
City
J Foster— Karl
Marx's Theory of History: A
Defence
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• Private Rented
Housing • Polish
Economic Crisis • Cancun
—Third World Last?
Coming in from the
Cold
A roundtable discussion with Tony Benn, Pete Carter and Jack Dromey
The People's March for Jobs was an extraordinary success. Here Tony
Benn discusses with two of its national coordinators why it was
so successful and what lessons the labour movement should draw from
it.
Gwyn Williams
Mother Wales, get
off me back ?
The image of Wales as a militant socialist country lives on. Gwyn
Williams, Professor of History at University College Cardiff, argues
this is now quite false: Wales is very different from what it was.
Roger Woddis
Santa in Crisis
Even Santa Claus has hit hard times.
George Catephores
Greece in the hour
of change
Greece has shifted dramatically to the left. But George Catephores,
a Greek economist living in Britain, argues that its most likely
consequence will be to transform Greece into a modern European country.
Ireland's Intractable
Crisis
Interviews with the UDA and the Provisional IRA
Northern Ireland remains in a state of permanent crisis. Andy Tyrie
and John McMichael from the UDA and Danny Morrison from the Provisional
IRA, in exclusive interviews with Bob Rowthorn, discuss relations
between the two communities and the prospects for a settlement.
Channel Five
Musicals —
Bruce Cole
Imperial Architecture
Revisited —Rodney Mace
The Indian Tour
— Mihir Bose
Reviews
Michael Bleaney — The
Political Economy of British Capitalism
Theo Nichols — Architect
or Bee? Living Thinkwork
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Lord Denning
• Fitzgerald's
Crusade
Bob Rowthorn
The Past Strikes
Back
Britain's postwar decline is, by any standards, remarkable.
The result has been growing political volatility. Bob Rowthorn,
a member of our Editorial Board, discusses the causes o the
process and what the SDP/Liberal Alliance might mean.
Monty Johnstone and Andreas Westphal
The Polish Crisis:
is there a way out ?
For 18 months, Poland has been in a state of deep crisis.
The authors examine its causes and possible scenarios. See
also p5 for latest developments.
Interview with
Jack Adams
The BL workforce has suffered one defeat after another. Jack
Adams, convenor at BL Longbridge, argues that now, with the
latest wage dispute, there has been a big change in the atmosphere.
Henry Patterson
Paisley and
Protestant Politics
Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party is on the offensive. Henry
Patterson, author of Class Conflict and Sectarianism looks
at the changes in Protestant politics.
Channel Five
Black actors
— Anton Phillips
Channel 4
— Stuart Hood
Karpov v. Korchnoi
— Graham Taylor
Discussion
Robin Blackburn
Can Labour Succeed?
The author argues that Labour must be transformed into a socialist
party.
Reviews
Marian Sling — Socialism
and Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1948
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• Nicaragua
• Crisis
in the Prisons
Chris Husbands
The Politics
of Confusion
The two-party system is under greater threat than at anytime
since 1945. Chris Husbands, a lecturer in sociology at the
London School of Economics, traces the growth in political
volatility
culminating in the present challenge from the SDP/Liberal
Alliance
Monty Johnstone
Poland's Military
Crackdown
On December 13 a 'state of war' was declared in Poland. Monty
Johnstone assesses the significance of the military takeover
and its implications.
Vic Allen
The Miners on
the Move
The miners have been the scourge of British governments for
over a decade. Now, in Arthur Scargill, they have a militant
president. Vic Allen, author of The Militancy of British Miners,
examines the radicalisation of the miners.
Outlook for
the Socialist Economies
A roundtable discussion with Wlodzimierz Brus, Julian Cooper,
Michael Ellman and Mario Nuti.
The prospects for the capitalist world in the eighties look
bleak. But the economic outlook for the socialist countries
is not much better.
John Griffith
The Law Lords
and the GLC
The Law Lords have stunned the Left. Here John Griffith, author
of The Politics of the Judiciary, examines the reasoning of
the Law Lords and some of its implications.
Channel Five
Interview with
David Puttnam
St Valentines
Day — Cath Jackson
What Chance
Popular Theatre ? — John McGrath
Reviews
Tamara Deutscher —
Solidarity: Poland's Independent Trade Union -- Poland: The
State of the Republic
Vicky Seddon — Subject
Women
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• SSRC
• PCF
Congress
Features
Andrew Gamble - The
Rise and Rise of the SDP The SDP/Liberal Alliance has
already changed the shape of British politics. What is not
so clear is what the SDP actually is and where it is going.
Andrew Gamble, author of Britain in Decline, examines the
possibilities.
Mick Kelly and Jean Palutikof - Facing
up to the Weather We have just experienced one of Britain's
worst ever winters. But, more seriously, fundamental changes
may be taking place in our climate.
Beatrix Campbell - Women:
not what they bargained for The equal pay movement has
ground to a halt. The differentials between men and women
won't budge. Beatrix Campbell, co-author of Sweet Freedom,
argues that the only way forward now is by tackling the
basic roots of women's inequality.
Ron Smith - Defence
After Trident
Whatever the government, the prospects for Trident look
rather unlikely. But, can the Left turn any future cancellation
to wider advantage, asks Ron Smith, co-author of The Political
Economy of British Capitalism.
Mario Nuti - Poland's
Economic Mess
Poland's economic crisis is, arguably, the worst in Europe.
Mario Nuti, Director of the
Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University
of Birmingham, looks at the problems facing the military
government.
Channel Five
Bertolucci
and Italian Cinema — Margaret Tarratt
Dr Hoggart's
Farewell — Peter Smith
Rioting on
the Media — Justin Wren-Lewis and Alan Clarke
Discussion
Dafydd Elis Thomas - Mother
Wales get off me Back? The
author, a Plaid Cymru MP, looks at the prospects for the
Left in Wales
Reviews
Alan Walker — Labour
Party Pamphlets.
Stephen Sedley —
Striking a Balance.
Gaby Charing — Women
in Society.
Women's Oppression
Today.
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• The
Bristol City Eight • Yamal
Gas Pipeline • Change
on the Ultra-Right
Features
Interview with John Alderson
Policing in
the Eighties
Last summer's riots have made policing a major political issue.
Here John Alderson, the radically minded Chief Constable of
Devon and Cornwall, discusses the role of the police.
Sam Aaronovitch
Recipe for Defeat
The Labour Left have made extraordinary advances in the Labour
Party. But is that
progress now threatened by the Left's political weaknesses?
Robert M Young
The Darwin Debate
The recent Arkansas case renewed the century-old debate on
Darwin's theory of evolution. The creationists lost, but the
left should not be drawn into blanket support for the scientific
establishment.
Christian Tyler
Tebbit's Law:
A Tory Dream Come True?
The Tories have taken another lunge at the unions. If successful,
the consequences for trade unionism
wouldbe
drastic. The stakes are, indeed, high.
Paul Bew
The Irish Election
The result of the recent Irish election was another cliff-hanger.
The author looks at the background to the present stalemate
in Irish politics.
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Urban Cowboys
— Mary Harron
Reclaiming
Fashion — Caroline Holder
The Stuff that
Dreams are made of— Kevin Gough-Yates
Snooker —
Sheila Capstick
Discussion
Geoff Bell Paisley
and Protestant Politics
The author looks at the position of the Protestants
Reviews
Ralph Miliband — The
Forward March of Labour Halted?
John Fantham — Triumph
of the People. Nicaragua: the Sandinista Revolution
Tess Woodcraft — Girls,
Wives, Factory Lives. Women, where are your jobs going?
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Features
Tony Benn - Democracy
and Marxism: A Mutual Challenge Marxism has changed the
world. Here Tony Benn, in the full text of the Marx Memorial
Lecture, printed exclusively in Marxism Today, argues that
British democracy needs Marxism and Marxism needs democracy.
Keith Dixon and Daniel Perraud - The
French Experiment The Mitterand government is one year
old. It is already the boldest Left experiment in Western
Europe since the war. But what is it - and will it last?
Michael Pentz -
Opportunity or Opportunism? Both Reagan and Brezhnev have
recently come up with new disarmament initiatives. But do
they offer the peace movement anything?
Bob Rowthorn - Britain
and Western Europe The Left has been strongly anti-EEC.
Yet Britain's integration with Western Europe is an irreversible
and growing reality. How should the Left respond to this process?
Frankie Rickford - The
Hidden Victims
Public transport has become a major political issue. But the
plight of those most dependent on it remains neglected.
Channel Five
Interview with
Sheila Hancock
Sound Barriers
- Sue
Steward
Shakespeare's
Sisters - Cathy Itzin
Movie Roles
- Mandy Rose
Discussion
Charles Clarke and David Griffiths Recipe
for Defeat Labour needs to become a popular, campaigning
party.
Reviews
David Edgar - Every
Sweet Thing
Elizabeth Wilson - Sex,
Politics and Society
Chantal Mouffe - The
Long March of the French Left
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Peace Movement Information
Technology
Features
Brian Pollitt
From El Salvador to the Falklands:
A strategy in disarray
From
the moment of taking office, Reagan was determined to roll
back progressive change in Latin America. The events of 1982,
from El Salvador to the Falklands, suggest that strategy is
now in disarray.
Raymond Williams
Democracy and
Parliament
'Parliamentary democracy' has moved to the centre of political
debate. But parliamentary democracy has many meanings —
and it is not what it seems. Yet this is no reason for the
Left
to be complacent.
Interview with Herbert McCabe OP
The Polish Pope
and the Catholic Church
John Paul II has introduced a very new style of papacy. Meanwhile,
the Catholic Church in Britain has been going through some
big changes.
Jon Bloomfield
Between The
Blocs: Europe's third road to peace
The new cold war has given rise to a European-wide peace movement.
Unlike previously, it has a distinctively European perspective.
Lee Bridges and Paul Gilroy
Striking Back
The recent use by the Metropolitan Police of race in crime
statistics must be seen in a wider political context.
Channel Five
Diana Ross
— Richard Dyer
Wimbledon Styles
— Dave Berry
Indian Art
— Charles Ashleigh
Discussion
Mick Costello
Tebbit's Law:
A Tory dream come true
What is it, and how can it be defeated?
Reviews
Steve Gooch — A
Good Night Out
Grazia Ietto Gillies — The
New International Division of Labour
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Adman and Eve
- Arms Trade
-
Red Brigades
- The Politics
of Handicap
Features
Robert Gray - The
Falklands Factor
Thatcher has exploited the Falklands issue to the full. And
the Left has found itself on the defensive and divided.
Tom Nairn - Britain's
Living Legacy The Falklands crisis has proved an extraordinary
and unpredictable episode. It
is a reminder of the power of Britain's
imperial legacy.
Miguel del Campo -
Malvinas Crisis: What Next in Argentina? The Argentinian
invasion of the Malvinas has unleashed unpredictable forces
in Argentina itself. Can the junta survive?
John Harrison - Thatcherism:
is it working? The Treasury is now claiming that the economy
has turned the corner. Thatcherism is beginning to work —
or is it?
Melvyn Bragg - Writers
and War
The hero of war has historically been the hero of the novel.
From the First World War, that tradition began to change.
But the change is far from complete.
John Mcllroy - Anatomy
of a Redundancy Struggle The fight to defend jobs at
the Laurence Scott factory in Manchester became national news.
It lasted many months and won wide support, but in the end
it was defeated. What can we learn?
Channel Five
The World Cup
— Stan Levenson
Post-War Craft
— Peter Dormer
British Cinema
in Europe — Ian Christie
Where have
all the books gone? — John Vincent
Discussion
Ben Ramelson
Britain and Western Europe
The case for withdrawal from the EEC is as strong as ever.
Reviews
Fran Bennett — Sweet
Freedom: the Struggle for Women's Liberation
Michael Barratt Brown — Britain
in Decline
Nicholas Blake — Conspiracy:
Law, Class and Society
Letters
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Bradford 12
• SDP Leadership
• Spanish
Communist Party
Features
Pamela A Smith
The Palestinians
and The Lebanon
Israel has inflicted a serious military defeat on the PLO. But
the Palestinian problem will not go away.
John Kelly
Useful
Work and Useless Toil
Millions of jobs are boring and unrewarding. But do they have
to be?
John Callaghan
The Politics
of the Militant Tendency
The Labour Right wants to exclude the Militant Tendency from
the Labour Party. But what is Militant and what does it stand
for?
Gwyn A Williams
Land of
our Fathers
Wales is not what it used to be and the Welsh Left has still
to adapt.
Cecil Gutzmore
The Notting
Hill Carnival
It is in the classical tradition of carnivals — a festival
and an expression of resistance.
Channel Five
Fassbinder -
Derek Malcolm
Snap, Prattle
and Pop - Claire Pollak
The Eisteddfod
- Gareth Miles
Discussion
John Lea and Jock Young
Race and Crime
We should resist a romantic view of black crime.
Reviews
Chris Middleton - Of
Marriage and the Market
Donald Sassoon -
After Poland
Letters
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• The
Democrats' New Dawn • Hard
Luck, Hard Rock
Features
Tony Lane
The Unions:
Caught on an Ebb Tide
The trade union movement is in difficulties — and it's
not just because of Thatcherism
and unemployment.
Mihir Bose
Sport and South
Africa
The sporting boycott of South Africa will not bring apartheid
down, but it matters in more ways than is usually recognised.
RoyMedvedev
USSR After Brezhnev
The ascendancy of Lenin, Stalin, Khruschov and Brezhnev have
marked distinctive phases in Soviet history. How should we
view the Brezhnev era and what is likely to succeed it?
Alan Walker
Why We Need
a Social Strategy
The welfare state has proved strikingly vulnerable to the
Thatcherite offensive. There is no simple going back —
so where do we go?
Ron Ayers
Militarism in
the Third World
The alternative to arms supplies from the advanced countries
is not indigenous arms manufacture.
Channel Five
Interview with
Ngugi wa Thiong'o -
Silly Hats
and the Navy: The Last Night of the Proms — Malcolm
Barry and Olivia Harris
Ambiguities
of the Estate — Robin Evans
Discussion
Jenny Warren
Britain and
Western Europe
The EEC is not the answer.
Reviews
Alan Hunt — Law
and Order: Arguments for Socialism
Rosalind Brunt — The
Culture Gap. Popular Culture: Past and Present
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Strategy • Assembly
Elections in Northern Ireland • The
Tories
and the Foreign Office
Features
Eric Hobsbawm
The State of
the Left in Western Europe
The Right is weaker than a decade ago and the Left has made
advances. But thepicture
is uneven and insecure.
Kenneth Leech
Is the Church
of England Really Moving to the Left?
The Falklands service, the national anthem, disarmament: the
Right is accusing the Church of England of going to the left.
What is actually happening?
Andre Gunder Frank
The Atlantic
Alliance in Disarray
The alliance between the United States and the Western Europe
has been the centrepiece of Western politics since the war.
Now it is racked by feuding and tension.
Steve Iliffe
Health Care
— a headache for the Left?
The NHS is under attack from the Tories. But the problems
of health care are also long term and deep seated.
Peter Hain
Prospects for
Labour
What kind of Labour Party is emerging from the post-1979 internal
struggles?
Channel Five
Interview with
Hugh Jenkins
Wren's
Reputation — Nick Rowling
Reviews
Gregor McLennan — Main
Currents of Marxism. Is There a Future for Marxism? A
Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialsm.
Bill Schwarz — Missing.
Assassination on Embassy Row.
Letters
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• US-Cuba
Relations • Payment
for Debt
Features
Interview with Rodney Bickerstaffe
Going Public
The health workers' dispute has emerged as one of the most
potent challenges to the Thatcher government's economic policies.
Anthony Barnett
Shackleton's
Dream Island
The Tories have won the war: but what are they going to do
with the spoils?
Stuart Hall
A Long Haul
The labour movement has been on the defensive since 1979 and
the causes are long term and profound.
Robert Gray
Left Holding
the Flag
'God Save the Queen', the Union Jack; how does the Left relate
to Britain as a nation? It isn't easy — but a way must
be found.
John Fairley
The Great Training
Robbery
The Tories are transforming the face of training. And we haven't
got much to say about it.
Discussion
Dave Priscott, Pete Carter, Andrew Clarke The
Unions: Caught on the Ebb Tide.
Tony Lane's article in the September issue has caused considerable
controversy.
Here are three responses.
Channel Five
Women command
the Flagship -
Lesley Hilton
Festival of
Lights -
Zareer Masani
A Train Stopped in Moscow -
John Birch
French broadcasting
-
Suszi Benghiat
Reviews
Jack Jones — Engineers
at War 1939-45
Lionel Cliffe — The
Ethiopian Revolution
John Hoffman — Communism
and Philosophy: Marxism and the Methodologies of History
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• Women
and Office Work • Steel
— protect and survive
Features
Anne Showstack Sassoon
Dual Role: women
and Britain's crisis 6
Most women now work. But society still operates as if they don't.
The result is a largely unseen but nonetheless profound social
crisis.
Gerry Pocock
The End of a Dream?
Martial law in Poland is one year old. Its purpose was to destroy
the independent workers' movement. Solidarity is certainly bowed
— but is it defeated?
Redrawing the
Political Map
A round table discussion with Sam Aaronovitch, Stuart Hall and
Peter Jenkins.
By postwar standards, the last 4 years have seen dramatic political
changes. 1983 will almost certainly see a general election.
So where do we stand now: how strong is Thatcherism, is the
mould broken, can labour revive?
Timothy Hollins
The Cable Trip-Wire
Cable television is almost upon us. And the Inquiry into Cable
Expansion seems to have given the green light.
Keith Cowling
The Heartland
of Depression
In the long boom, the West Midlands was the symbol of prosperity.
Today nowhere more dramatically describes the process of deindustrialisation
and depression.
Channel Five
The Man Who Came
to Christmas Dinner Leon Broome and John Bull
The Armslength
Principle
Peter Dormer
African Music
Lineup
Chris Stapleton
Local Radio
Thomas O'Malley
Discussion
Jim Fyrth
The Unions: Caught
on the Ebb Tide
The problem is the decline of political consciousness
Reviews
Bernard Crick
The Politics
of the Labour Party
Jon Bloomfield
Exterminism and
the Cold War. Disarming Europe
Dennis Ogden
Poland: A Crisis
for Socialism
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the unilateralist
• Brazil
• Privatisation
• Irish
elections
Features
Harold Wolpe
Apartheid's
Deepening Crisis
The last decade has seen big changes in South Africa:
economic crisis, widening black resistance and significant
changes in Afrikaner strategy. What will be the outcome?
Eric Hobsbawm
Falkland's
Fallout
The Falklands war was not really about the Falklands
at all, it was about domestic politics. And it gave
a new and ominous portent of what might happen after
Thatcher.
Lynne Segal
A Question
of Choice
The accepted wisdom is that Thatcherism is forcing womenback
into home. But it's not quite like that.
Michael Rustin
Power
to the Provinces!
Labour has traditionally been antagonistic, or at best
lukewarm, towards decentralisation —be it devolution
or regional government. Now the SDP is making the running
on regionalism, and the Left can't afford to be left
behind.
Jon Halliday
Mr Weathervane
takes over in Japan
Nakesone has just been elected as the new premier, marking
a significant
shift to the right in Japanese politics.
Channel Five
Sierra
Design — Interview with Dan Connor
Songs
Of Resistance — Mary Ellison
Discussion
Bill Warman
The Unions:
Caught on the Ebb Tide
The last contribution to our discussion.
Reviews
Chris Pond — Images
of Welfare — The Politics of Poverty — Poverty
and
Politics
Sarah Lefanu — A
Chain of Voices
Jenny Warren — Threat
from the East?
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Death in
Jeddah • South
Korea's miracle stumbles • Changes
at the top • French
pragmatism
Features
A New Force
in the Land
A roundtable discussion with Sally Davison, Helen John
and Joan Ruddock
The Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp has captured the
imagination of the country. It represents a new kind of
politics. But what can — and can't — it do?
Chris Pond
Taxation:
a political liability
In 1979, a major reason for the Tory victory was the promise
to cut income tax. It hasn't happened. But taxation remains
a key problem which the Left has neglected.
Dave Cook and Peter Hain
Proportional
representation: threat or opportunity?
The emergence of the Alliance has put proportional representation
much higher on the political agenda. The Left remains
very divided on its own attitude. Here we present two
conflicting views.
Harold Immanuel
Sizewell
Syndrome
The Tory government is committed to a massive programme
of nuclear power stations. Sizewell 'B' would be the first
of many. But all the signs are that this is going to become
— for the first time — a major political issue.
Doug Cook
Lessons
of the NHS Dispute
The author looks at the recent health workers struggle.
Channel Five
Black footballers
— Peter Ball
News on
Channel 4 — Brian McNair
A Question
of Silence — Sarah Lefanu
The Rise
of the Slopes — Maria Loftus
Review
Hilary Land — The
Anti-Social Family
Martin Weegman — Feminine
Sexuality — Feminism and Psychoanalysis
Grahame Thompson — The
Lucas Plan — The Unequal Struggle?
Letters
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Fleet Street
shuffle • The
sinking pound • The
family way
Features
Karl Marx:
100 Not Out
A roundtable discussion with Eric Hobsbawm, Ralph Miliband,
Bob Rowthorn and Anne Sassoon.
This month is the centenary of Marx's death. His influence
has been enormous. How do his ideas look today and what
are the prospects for the future?
Simon Frith
Post Punk
Blues
The late 70s saw the heyday of political pop. Since then
it has waned, but pop continues to express the concerns
and pleasures of the youth generation.
John Kelly
Tebbit Changes
Tack
The assault on the unions remains central to Tory strategy.
But the latest Green Paper marks a shift in the nature
of that offensive.
What Does Marx Mean to You?
Marx's impact on Britain and the world is extraordinary.
We asked people from a wide variety of different spheres
and views what he means to them.
Christopher Husbands
Unemployment
and Politics
A big majority of the British people regard unemployment
as the biggest issue facing the nation. But it hasn't
— as yet — produced a shift against the Tories.
Channel Five
Interview
with Alan Ayckbourn
Rediffusing
television — Gillian Skirrow
Celebrating
the Centenary — Richard Dyer
Discussion
Gerry Pocock
Falklands
Fallout
The honourable record of the Left
Reviews
Anne Sassoon — Marx:
A Hundred Years On
Anthony Dorrell — Shostakovich:
the man and his music
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Zimbabwe
in Turmoil • Media
and New Technology • Austerity
in France • The
Police Bill
Features
David Currie
Opec Over
a Barrel
The oil price has been cut. And Opec is now on the defensive
and vulnerable.
Chris Pond
Rediscovering
Poverty
Poverty has become the forgotten issue of British politics.
That is now beginning
to change. But the labour movement still doesn't take
it seriously.
John Gordon
North-South:
the axis shifts
There is no sign of a New International Economic order.
So the South is now
pressing for more pragmatic measures.
Phil Lee
Welfare
State: The Second Front Opens
So far it's been mainly words and not much action. But
the recent leaks suggest the Tories, given another chance,
will go for bust.
Pat Hudson
The Right
and the Green
West German politics has shifted right, with implications
for the rest of Europe.
Channel Five
Interview
with Buchi Emecheta
Video
and Pop — Paul Morley
Sir William
Walton — Malcolm Barry
Reviews
John Fisher— Farewell
to the Working Class: Socialism and Survival
Jitendra Mohan — Dynamics
of Global Crisis: Crisis in the Third World: The Third
World in Global Development
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Chinese
Foreign Policy • The
Trident Factor • Drought
in Africa
Features
Interview
with Neil Kinnock
Over the last four years, Labour has been trying to
come to terms with both Thatcherism and its own longer-term
decline. In this interview, Neil Kinnock, one of the
major figures on the Labour Left, explores these issues
and post-election prospects.
Dave Triesman - They're
Off . . .
The flat racing season is well underway, the Derby is
about to happen. Horse racing exercises an enormous
influence on rich and poor alike.
John Grahl - The
Liberal Revolutionary
Keynes has had a greater impact on British politics
this century than any other thinker. For many years,
he was almost sacrosanct. Now he is derided by the radical
Right. The Left still can't make up its mind.
Dave Morris - Unemployment
Blues
The trade union movement is in difficulties —
and, at root, the problem is unemployment.
David Arnold - The
Man behind the Film
Gandhi remains one of the great figures of the twentieth
century. But his long run legacy for India is an ambiguous
one.
Channel Five
Interview
with Alexei Sayle
James
Bond in the 80s — Tony Bennett
Mass
Market Feminism — Margaret Tarratt
Reviews
Andrew Gamble — Thatcher's
Britain: Britain Can Work: After the New
Right: The Salisbury Review
Veronica Beechey — Brothers
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Nicaragua
• Shipbuilding
on the rocks • Indonesia
Features
Andrew Gamble Thatcher:
The Second Coming
The Thatcherite revolution has consolidated its hold
on British society, leaving
the left in apparent disarray.
Doreen Massey The
Contours of Victory
The Tory victory reveals new patterns of political allegiances
and challenges
accepted wisdom about party loyalty.
Vicky Seddon Keeping
Women in their Place
Sexual harassment is an added and unpleasant burden
facing working
women. But recent research suggests that it plays a
significant role in emphasising sexual divisions at
work.
Brian Wood Impasse
in Namibia
A flurry of recent diplomatic activity has failed to
dislodge apartheid's grip on Namibia. What are the prospects
now for liberation?
Channel
4: The First Nine Months
Interview with Jeremy Isaacs
Stuart Hood talks to the chief executive of the controversial
experiment in broadcasting
Channel Five
Tycoon
by Design — Adrian Forty
Young
British Novelists — Anita Phillips
Italian
Summers — Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti
Reviews
Malcolm Rutherford — The
Politics of Thatcherism
Esmee Barnsby — Feminism,
Culture and Politics
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Jam or
Jerusalem? • The
Japanese elections • Depo
Provera
Features
Iran —
Revolution in Reverse
The overthrow of the Shah was one of the great popular
revolutions of this century. But the Islamic regime
that replaced it has been highly ambiguous. Now it has
turned on the Left. Here we interview A Sadeg,
a representative of the Tudeh Party.
Stan Parker The
British on Holiday
Foreign holidays are on the increase, but hoiday-making
in Britain still predominates.
Paul Hirst Hanging
— the End of the Rope The pro-hanging lobby
has been defeated, but this issue is unlikely to go
away.
Donald Sassoon
Christian Democracy's crumbling edifice
The recent Italian elections resulted in a stunning
defeat for Christian Democracy and new possibilities
for the Italian communists.
Opinion
pollsters or opinion formers?
A roundtable discussion with James Curran, Peter Kellner
and Bob Worcester.
The general election saw a positive epidemic of opinion
polls. They also
remain controversial. We explore some of the issues.
Channel Five
Armchair
Travelling — Stephen Hayward
Popular
and Political Theatre — an interview with
Dario Fo
The Artists'
International Association — Lynda Morris
Discussion
John Saville, The
Liberal Revolutionary
The mixed blessing of 1945
Reviews
Julian Cooper — The
Economics of Feasible Socialism
Dennis Ogden — Andropov
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A drop
in the ocean? • Squeezing
the poor • Chile's
shaky junta
Features
Bob Rowthorn • Think
positive — rethink Labour
Labour suffered a historic defeat in the general election.
Worse could follow. Now is the time for some serious
rethinking.
Ray Forrest • Home
sweet home
The Thatcher years have seen major changes in housing.
Council housing is on the retreat and owner-occupation
is increasingly important.
For whom
the block votes?
A roundtable discussion
The Tories want to loosen, possibly break, the ties
between Labour and the unions. At the election, a minority
of trade unionists voted Labour. In this roundtable,
six trade
unionists discuss the problems and how to tackle them.
James Donald • Class
of 83
The Left must regain the initiative on education. But
to do so, it needs to reassess its arguments.
Ian Davison • Will
protest survive? CND after the election
As cruise gets closer, CND becomes more important. But
the election didn't help.
Channel Five
Interview
with Salman Rushdie
Paul
Robeson: Militant Humanism — Richard Dyer
Latin
American Cinema — Michael Chanan
Reviews 43
Eileen Phillips — Arguments
for Socialism series
Brian Bolton — Why
are the British bad at manufacturing? — Japan
in the passing lane.
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Prevention • Polish
economic reform • Equal
pay
FEATURES
Labour's
Lost Millions
Eric Hobsbawm
Labour was trounced in June. It could be marginalised
over the next decade — or sooner. So what do we
do about it?
Feminism
is Dead? Long Live Feminism
Tricia Davis
The Tories have a far more subtle position on women
than is generallynrecognised. They have been forced
to acknowledge the strength of feminism. So why is the
Left retreating from it?
Interview
with David Yip, the Chinese
Detective
David Yip, the star of The Chinese Detective, looks
at the series and the
problems confronting the ethnic minorities on the screen
and in society.
The Popular
Front Revisited
Dave Priscott
The Left has underestimated the strength and threat
of Thatcherism. The experience of the 30s serves as
both a warning and a guide.
Privatising
Pleasure — the Communications Revolution
Peter Golding and Graham Murdock
A revolution is being wrought in the communications
industries, yet the Left is hardly aware of its existence,
let alone what to do about it.
CHANNEL FIVE
Interview
with Keith Waterhouse
Political
Theatre — David Edgar
Televised
Football — David Berry and Steve Pinder
Spotlight:
No Go Music — Chris Bohn
REVIEWS
Richard
Saville — The Cambridge Economic History of
India:
Civilisation and Capitalism
Michael
Rustin — What is to be Done about the Family?
LETTERS
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The rain
that kills • Racism
in France • Nigeria
comes of age
FEATURES
Central
America: the Eagle Hovers • Jenny Pearce
The US strategy isn't working. So Reagan, bit by bit,
is escalating the situation. Where will it end?
The Uneasy
Alliance •
Andrew Gamble
The Alliance came out of the election as victor and loser.
Now it faces difficult options — and new tensions.
Caught in
the Wheels •
Cynthia Cockburn
Engineering and technology is a man's world. The era of
'equal opportunities' has made virtually no difference.
There's got to be some explanation.
Interview
with George Melly
A tour of the 60s, Thatcherism, jazz and surrealism with
one of jazz's best-known personalities.
The Long
and Winding Road •
A roundtable discussion
The Communist Party, like the rest of
the Left, is not without its problems. Four leading Communists
discuss how they see things.
CHANNEL FIVE
Interview with Peter Preston, Guardian editor
Radio Franchises
— Thomas O'Malley
Hip Little
Englanders — Marek Kahn
Spotlight:
The Fringe — Paul Allen
REVIEWS
Karl Dallas — Victor:
an unfinished song
Alan Macdougall — Inside
the Inner City
VIEWPOINT
Michael Meacher and Robin Cook respond to Eric Hobsbawm's
'Labour's Lost Millions'.
LETTERS
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Mirror's
image • Trouble
at the poly • Hongkong:
crisis? what crisis?
FEATURES
America
Presents Arms
John Cox
The US invades Grenada. It's all too familiar. But things
are changing.
The third world is now at the centre of the cold war.
The Caribbean's
Stolen Jewel
Andy Green
Grenada's revolution was young, but it had done a lot.
France's
Resurgent Right
Keith Dixon and Daniel Perraud
The French Right is on the offensive — and making
unholy alliances.
Labour's
capital gains: The GLC experience
Michael Ward
The Labour GLC has pioneered a new kind of municipal
socialism.
Iran's
Revolution turns sour
Fred Halliday
The Iranian revolution has gone badly wrong. The Left
has been suppressed and the Tudeh Party forced underground.
CHANNEL FIVE
Street
credibility — Rosalind Brunt
Happy
Birthday, WEA — Trevor Blackwell
Women
Draw 1984
Spotlight:
Christmas Wines — Edmund Penning-Rowsell
REVIEWS
We asked a variety of people which book they most enjoyed
reading in 1983.
VIEWPOINT
Eric Heffer continues the discussion on Eric Hobsbawm's
'Labour's Lost Millions'.
LETTERS
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Conflict
in the southern Sudan • The
housing benefit bungle • Back
to jail
FEATURES
Lebanon:
the Middle East battleground •
Roger Owen
The Lebanon has been torn apart by internal and
external strife. But now the situation has been
internationalised in a quite new way.
Nineteen
Eighty-Four in 1984 •
Raymond Williams
1984 has finally arrived. How has the novel stood
the test of time?
The
Culture Gap
Stuart Hall
Postwar Britain has witnessed enormous cultural
changes. But the Left has remained at best indifferent,
at worst hostile.
1997
David Edgar
Imagine Thatcherism triumphs at the next election—and
again and again.
Just what will Britain be like on the eve of the
twenty-first century?
The
Age of Unemployment
A
roundtable discussion
Unemployment is the issue which most concerns
the British people. But not much is happening.
CHANNEL FIVE
Interview
with Melvyn Bragg
The
Genius of Venice — Tony del Renzio
Spotlight:
The Unhipness of Eolk — Karl Dallas
REVIEWS
John
Cox — Soviet Policy under Brezhnev and
Andropov: The Making of the Second Cold War: Cold
War or Detente?
Nick Kimberley — The Sound of the City:
Sound Effects
VIEWPOINT
Bert Munro and Des Walshe, and Anna Coote discuss
'Labour's Lost
Millions'.
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— a chip off the old block? •
Pension
funds • Your
shekel or your wallet
FEATURES
Caught
in the Gender Trap
Jean Gardiner
One of the great social changes of the postwar
period has been the transformation in the position
of women. It is also one which the labour movement
has failed to keep abreast with.
The
New (Liberal) Left
Interview with
Michael Meadowcroft
British politics ain't what it once was. Party
labels are no longer quite so self-defining. The
emergence of a Left in the Liberal Party is a
case in point.
Britain's
Misspent Youth
Dan
Finn
Once the MSC was about job-creation. Now it —
and the YTS — are much more about cultural
conditioning.
Yugoslavia:
An Experiment in Crisis
Martin Myant
The Yugoslavs have developed a very individual
style of socialism.
But they now face major economic problems, and
their democratic processes are being severely
criticised
.
The
Unions: Is there life after Warrington?
John Mcllroy and John Lloyd
There's no doubt about it. The NGA dispute at
Warrington was one of the most important in recent
years. But what conclusions should we draw?
CHANNEL FIVE
Panto
Panto — Richard Dyer
Cinema
from Three Continents — Roy Armes
Brookside
— Christine Geraughty
Spotlight:
The Trouble with Poetry — Michele Roberts
REVIEWS
Andrew Gamble— The
Thatcher government: Thatcher and friends
Fred Halliday — Class
Struggle is the Name of the Game
VIEWPOINT
Dave
Cook and Roger Poole discuss 'Labour's Lost Millions'.
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Africa's dilemma • Drugs
and xenophobia • Monetarism
in retreat • Spanish
Communist Party
FEATURES
Labour:
Rump or Rebirth
Eric Hobsbawm
Labour can recover. But only if it respects its
traditions.
Administrative
Law: A New Tsar is Born?
Stephen Sedley
The judges have been quietly but inexorably redrawing
the boundaries between the judiciary and the executive
at the latter's expense.
Unions
in Search of their Members
Richard Jewison
Left policies and leaders shouldn't be confused
with the views of the trade union membership. OK.
But how do you win the membership
Britain's
Growing Greens
Interview with Jonathon Porritt
Green issues are becoming more central. But the
relationship between the Left and green politics
remains at best distant, at worst non-existent.
The
Victorian Visionary
Robbie Gray
William Morris was not just an important Victorian
figure, he has something to offer us today.
CHANNEL FIVE
Opera's
Rising Star — Anthony Arblaster
Light
Dimensions — Michael Cross
Spotlight:
Classical Music — Malcolm Barry
REVIEWS
Cynthia
Cockburn — Women in Control
Tricia
Davis — The Left and the Erotic: Sex and
Love
Betty
Matthews — In The Tracks of Historical
Materialism
VIEWPOINT
Kathy Myers and Ann Sedley discuss feminism in 1984.
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— keeping it in the family • Andropov's
455 days • Training
for jobs • Italian
unions
FEATURES
Storming
the Town Halls: a Rate-Cap Revolution
John Stewart
The Conservative government, in its efforts to
reduce local authorityexpenditure, is now challenging
the very principle of local government.
The
Egyptian Enigma
Chris Mowles
Egypt is beginning to stir again. But it is more
likely to be a mild version of Sadat than a return
to Nasser.
How
the Other Half Lives
Beatrix Campbell
Labour's crisis isn't mainly about policies, it's
about its relationship with the people.
Crossed
Lines: Communists in Search of an Identity
Jon Bloomfield
The Communist Party may be small, but its present
disputes affect the whole of the Left.
The
Bleak Country
Frank Gaffikin and Andrew Nickson
The jobs crisis in the West Midlands is a product
of global restructuring as much as the domestic
recession.
CHANNEL FIVE
Barry
Manilow: opium of die missus — Barney
Hoskyns
Photography's
changing face —
Allan Harkness
Gay
Switchboard 10 years on —
Jeffrey Weeks
Musicals
now —
Stephanie McKnight
Spotlight:
China Watching —
Brian Hipkin
REVIEWS
Gregor
McLennan — Class Power and State Power
John
Peck — What is Proportional Representation?
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Ireland Forum •
CPSU and Spanish communists • Racism
and employment
FEATURES
To
Buy or Not to Buy: is that the question?
David Griffiths and Chris Holmes
The Left has lost out badly on housing. It's time
for a rethink.
Taking
Liberties- Interview w i th Larry Gostin
Thatcherism Mark II is engendering a growing concern
with civil liberties. But how do you defend civil
liberties — and which ones?
Mapping
out the Unions
Doreen Massey and Nicholas Miles
Once union membership was concentrated in a few
areas. Now it is more and more widely dispersed.
With far-reaching implications.
Full
Employment: Slogan or Strategy?
John Grahl
Unemployment is widely perceived to be Britain's
most important problem. But the Left has so far
lost the ideological argument. Perhaps it's time
to look again at what we are actually offering.
Class
Conundrum
Gregor McLennan
Working class has never automatically meant Labour,
let alone socialist.
CHANNEL FIVE
Modern
Dance — Chris Savage-King
2-Way
Communication — Joel Cayford
The
Pre-Raphaelites — Deborah Cherry
Architects
in Crisis — Martin Pawley
REVIEWS
George
Matthews — 1939: The Communist Party
and the War
Judy
Kimble — Sex and Destiny: the politics
of human fertility
VIEWPOINT
Ann
Pettifor — Women and the Labour Party
Ron
Bellamy — Trends in the Communist Party
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of Lords • Video
Nasties • South
American Slump •
Hungarian Reforms
FEATURES
This
Lady's Not for Turning: Thatcherism
Mark III
Andrew Gamble
After the election, it began to look as if Thatcherism
might have lost its way. Now it doesn't. But what
will happen is an open question.
The
Unbridgeable Gulf
Patrick Cockburn
The Iran-Iraq war is three and a half years old.
Once it seemed that Iran might win, now it looks
like continuing stalemate.
Overstating
the State
Geoff Hodgson
The dominant socialist tradition in Britain is
based on a highly centralised idea of socialism.
It won't work — and we won't get there.
We need a more decentralised concept.
Males,
Morals and Majorities
Interview with Gloria Steinem
Women have made enormous gains in the US over
the last two decades, but they are now under assault.
Fuelling
Britain: the Future of Coal
Graham
Gudgin
The present dispute is not about a handful of
uneconomic jobs, it's about the whole future of
the coal industry.
CHANNEL FIVE
English
Romanesque Art 1066-1200 — Rodney Hilton
Liverpool's
Garden Festival — Bob Dent
Fanzines
— Paul Mathur
French
Crime Movies — David Nicholls
REVIEWS
Sara
Lefanu — Feminist Publishing
Hannah
Kanter — Female Desire/Desire
Urvashi
Butalia —Javady Alley / Woman at Point
Zero/ The Republic of Cousins
VIEWPOINT
Dave Richards — Communists
in search of an identity
Nigel Stanley — Communist
Party — where next?
Tess Woodcraft — How
the other half lives
Adam Sharpies— Unemployment:
Slogan or Strategy
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by any other name • Science
parks • Laurels
and hardy poets • The
Dutch decision
FEATURES
The
Changing Face of Royalty •
Rosalind
Brunt
While so much in British society has been subject
to question in the last decade, the Royal Family
seems to have emerged unscathed. If anything its
popularity has grown. Why is it so popular?
Berlinguer:
Architect of Eurocommunism •
Donald Sassoon
Over one million people attended his funeral.
In retrospect, he looks like one of the great
figures of postwar Europe.
Sheffield:
Steelyard Blues
Dave Child and Mick Paddon
Sheffield has been Labour's greatest English stronghold,
a city dominated by engineering and steel. Suddenly
the latter is no more; the occupational structure
has been transformed. Where will it lead?
The
Greening of Britain
Malcolm MacEwen
Socialists have traditionally emphasised growth.
Now it must be tempered by conservation.
Coalfield
Women at the Face
a roundtable discussion
A unique feature of the miners strike has been
the involvement of women in the coalfield.
CHANNEL FIVE
Spreading
the Arts — Interview with Joan Bakewell
Computer
Games - Tom Conlon
The
Royal Shakespeare Company—Paul Allen
REVIEWS
Gareth Stedman Jones—Towards
2000/Wigan Pier Revisited
Anthony Barnett — Ernest
Bevin Foreign Secretary/Labour in Power 1945-51
/The Labour Governments 1945-51
VIEWPOINT
Hugo
Young — Thatcherism Mark III
John
Ross — Thatcherism Mark III
Tricia
Davies — Crossed Lines
David
Blunkett — How the Other Half Lives
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Labour's
black sections • Social
security- reviews and reforms • Poles
together • Ethical
medics
FEATURES
Strike
to the finish-A roundtable discussion
The miners' strike is right at the centre of the
political stage. Its outcome will determine much.
But already this is a strike which will go down
in the history books.
A
Tale of Two Germanies • Jonathan Steele
Suddenly, relations between the two Germanies
has become an issue of some controversy.
Breaking
School Rules • Brian Simon
The Tories have failed to halt the spread of comprehensivisation.
They are now seeking a major extension of centralised
control over education. That's partly what lies
behind the new exam reforms.
Dust to Dust-the World's Expanding Deserts
Adam Markham
Reports of drought and famine in Africa have become
commonplace on
our television screens. Yet something can be done
about it.
Star
Spangled Economies
Lars Osberg
Over the last decade, the US has created many
more jobs than West Europe. This is one of the
reasons why the 'American model' has become fashionable
amongst economic commentators. But this is only
half the
picture.
CHANNEL FIVE
Computing
the Future — Interview with Richard
Sharpe
Street
Dancing — Chris Savage-King
REVIEWS
Law
and Order — Brenda Kirsch
Hidden
from History — Alok Ray
VIEWPOINT
Tom Baistow — Mirror's
Image Fades
Steve Munby — Municipal
Militancy
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Appeal
of Reaganism • Street
illegal •
The bingo war • Policing
street collectors
FEATURES
The
Face of Labour's Future
Eric Hobsbawm interviews Neil Kinnock
Labour has staged a major recovery in the opinion
polls since the general election. Its long term
revival, however, depends on what it has to offer
the future.
Britain's
Deadly Diet
Julie Sheppard
Food has long been considered a private matter.
But gradually diet is coming to be recognised for
what it is, a major determinant of the nation's
health and well-being.
Sale
of the Century
Dexter Whitfield
BT shares are now jostling with soap powder on the
nation's TV commercials. This is the sale to end
all (privatisation) sales. And by the end of it
the Tories will have gone a long way, indeed, down
the privatisation road.
Preaching
Progress
Interview with the Bishopof Durham, David Jenkins
Conflict in the Church of England has become a regular
topic of news. The Church is in a state of flux.
The
Hongkong Syndrome
Walter Easey
It could hardly be more different from the Falklands.
And the deal currently being stitched together is
likely to fall apart, sooner or later.
CHANNEL FIVE
All
Actors should be Working Class —
Interview with Tony Booth and Pat Phoenix
Supergirl
— Tessa Perkins
The
Running Boom—Mark Ferryman
REVIEWS
Pregnancy
and Choice — Jan Mellor
A
Voice in the Wilderness — Pamela A Smith
Lenin's
heirs—Brian Nicholls
VIEWPOINT
Barry Hugill — Breaking
School Rules
Marc Wadsworth and Iqbal Wahhab — Black
Sections
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The
bullet bites back • No
strike, no say • The
Vatican and Liberation Theology • Health
care Reaganomics
FEATURES
An
Unhappy Marriage? The Labour-Union Link -
Peter Hain
There was talk of going for contracting-in. Instead
the Tories have plumped for something far more
ambitious — severing the links between individual
unions and the Labour Party. There is an awful
lot at stake here.
Reagan's
American Dream
David Plotke
It looks like Reagan again. But why has he been
so successful? From a European vantage point,
it doesn't seem so obvious.
Refurnishing
the Corridors of Power
Richard Norton-Taylor
All is not well in Whitehall. The Tisdall and
Ponting cases are expressions of a deeper unease.
It's about Thatcherism's attempt to reshape the
civil service.
The
State — Socialism's Old Caretaker
Stuart Hall
Not so long ago, the Left was unambiguously/or
state intervention, at
least in a lot of areas. Now it's not so sure.
It needs to sort out where it stands. Because
this is one of the issues on which Thatcherism
has been so effective.
Britain's
Drug Problem
Bent Gordon
Drug-taking is on the increase. But is it as bad
as some claim, and what do the new Tory proposals
amount to?
CHANNEL 5
Breaking
New Style — Interview with Jeff Banks
Beware
Working Woman — Janice Winship
REVIEWS
Mozambique:
Ideals and Reality — Paul Fauvet
Hegemony
in Dispute— Roger Simon
VIEWPOINT
Following last month's interview with Neil Kinnock,
Peter
Kellner, Gordon
McLennan, Joan
Maynard and Robin
Cook discuss Kinnock's first year.
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and Ethiopia • Trouble
at the Board • Mondale
raygunned •
Information
technology industry breaks ranks
FEATURES
Hopes,
Dreams and Dirty Nappies
Sheila Rowbotham
The Left doesn't believe in Utopias. It should.
They give us hope and imagination.
Let
a Thousand Enterprises Bloom
JohnGittings
China has gone in for a dose of decentralisation
and the market.
Labour and the People Ken
Livingstone and
Beatrix
Campbell
One of the few left stars that has been burning
brightly is the GLC. What
wider lessons does it offer?
Bump
Starting Britain John Grahl
The old Keynesian model is dead - The radical
Right are in trouble. But what does the Left offer
the future?
What Britain Thinks Gregor McLennan
Public opinion remains as contradictory and
ambiguous as ever.
CHANNEL 5
Ways
of Witnessing — Interview with John
Berger
Following
the Fight to the Finish — Paul Marshall
REVIEWS
It's nearly 1985, and time to look back on
1984. This
is our round up:
1984:
A Year of New Alliances?—Anne Phillips
Who's
Afraid of Tariq Ali—Peter Riddell
Rigging
Miracles — Joanna Goulding
Are
You Wearing the Right Aftershave? —
Carol Sarler
Pop's
Young Fogeys — Marek Kohn
Video
Viewpoint— Dave Rushton
VIEWPOINT
Keith Hill —
Unions Labour: the nitty gritties
Ken Coates —
Ballot Boycott
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Tory revolution • Marcos
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rings around London • Alliance
for Science
FEATURES
Famine:
What Can the Left Give?-
John Sender and Sheila Smith
The public response to the Ethiopian famine
has been enormous. But the Left's profile
is barely visible.
Who
Dares Wins
Tony Benn
The Left can fight its way through its present
problems if it looks to its strengths.
Faith,
Hope or Clarity
Stuart Hall
The labour movement is in crisis. Faith
in not enough. It must come to terms with
that crisis and change accordingly.
The
Company of Angela Carter- An Interview
From folklore and babies to feminism and
recession, one of Britain's leading novelists
discusses her work.
La
Fin: France Abandons Socialism
Keith Dixon and Daniel Perraud
An experiment now in ruins. But the causes
of the collapse of the Mitterrand government's
radical aspirations must be sought in the
past as well as the present.
CHANNEL5
Advertising
for a Change — Interview with
Johnny Wright
A
Class of its Own — Alan Clarke
Radio
Airwaves — Thomas O'Malley
REVIEWS
Retreating
from Reality — Tricia Davis
Size
well Saga — David Thomas
VIEWPOINT
Tariq Ali — Politics
and Pyramids
Henry Neuberger — Babies
and Bathwater
LETTERS
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Contraception
and confidentiality • India
at crossroads • The
new trade union leaders • Who
pays for the US deficit?
FEATURES
Britain's
Sexual Counter-Revolutionaries
Rose Shapiro
Encouraged by the recent court decision
on contraception for under-16s, the moral
Right are on the offensive. And there is
a sympathetic ear for them in high places.
Mining
the Popular Front
Hywel Francis
In its 11 months, the miners' strike has
found support in many different quarters.
It has helped to sustain the strike. And
in Wales, broad alliances insupport of the
miners have been pursued in quite a new
way.
Sterling
Takes a Pounding
Michael Bleaney
Sterling has taken a dive. But what does
it all mean?
CND's
New Era: Interview with Joan Ruddock
The Geneva talks are underway. Cruise has
been sited. Labour's defence proposals suffered
a debacle in the last election. CND faces
a new era.
No
Private Drama
Dave Cook
The divisions within the Communist Party
are now there for all to see. And their
outcome will have a profound effect on the
rest of the Left.
CHANNEL 5
Keeping
the Revolution Warm—Interview
with Terry Eagleton
Polish
Film—Monty Johnstone
REVIEWS
The
Cultural Front—Andy Croft
Misunderstanding
or Misrepresentation — Pat Devine
The
Menace of Anti communism—Richard
Gott
VIEWPOINT
James
Curran — Rationale for the Right
David
Green—Who Dares Wins
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blue turned deepest red? •
Those that pay the fiddler . . .•
Launderette
philosophers • Unanswered
questions
FEATURES
Ratecap
Resistance
Interview with David Blunkett
We are on the eve of rate-capping. And the
rate-capped authorities remain united in
opposition. What will happen?
Back
in the USSR: the past catches up
Monty Johnstone
The USSR has not achieved the ambitious
objectives it set itself over
two decades ago. Only widespread reforms
can tackle the malaise.
Ponting's
Legal Torpedo
John Griffith
The Ponting verdict was a blow for democracy.
And all the better for being unexpected.
Jaw-Jaw
and War-War
Paul Rogers
The Geneva talks are about to commence.
But the obstacles are
formidable and expectations low.
Striking
the Right Note
Pete Carter
A most extraordinary industrial dispute,
the most remarkable this century, but what
strategic lessons can be drawn from the
miners strike?
CHANNEL 5
The
Bard of Stratford — Interview
with Benjamin Zephaniah
The
Woodcraft Folk—Martin Stott
Art
into Production — JohnWillett
REVIEWS
Powerful
Memories — Bill Schwarz
The
History Men — Gregor McLennan
VIEWPOINT
Ben
Fine — Class Politics
John
Foster—Moving the Goalposts
Lucy
Bland — Britain's Sexual Counter-Revolutionaries
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The
impact of aids • Gorbachev
ushers in a new period • Restricting
drugs • The
new workers' co-operatives
FEATURES
The
Retreat into Extremism
Eric
Hobsbawm
The Left is trying to get its act together.
Splendid isolation is not the answer.
The
Case for the Defence
James Hinton
The peace movement has proved remarkably
resilient. Nevertheless the
last election was a major setback for it,
and the next one is beginning to loom on
the horizon. The time is ripe for something
new.
The
Miners' Strike: A Balance Sheet •
A Roundtable Discussion
The outcome of the miners' strike was a
major setback. Now is the time to ask some
questions.
NUM
United: A Team in Disarray
Hywel Francis
A remarkable strike, unequalled this century.
But from the beginning it was dogged by
division and disunity.
Labouring
Women
Interview with Frances Morrell
Until now feminism has made little impact
on the Labour Party. But things are beginning
to change.
CHANNEL 5
Designs
for Living—Interview with Betty
Jackson
A
Passage to India — Richard Dyer
Minority
Television — Yvonne Neverson
REVIEWS
An
English Dissenter — Sally Davison
The
Future of Science — Fred Steward
Female
Prophecy — Elena Lieven
VIEWPOINT
Alan
Hunt — The Drama Unfolds
Lynne
Segal — A New Morality
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Enter
the dragon
Towards
1963?
'Vive
la difference. . .
The
gaff blown
FEATURES
Rate-capping
and Realignment- Interview with Ken
Livingstone
The campaign against rate-capping is not
what it might have been. The
GLC, in particular, ended in a debacle.
The whole affair may prove something of
a turning-point in local Labour politics.
Realignments are not just on the agenda,
they are well underway.
1945
and all that
Basil Davidson
This month sees the 40th anniversary of
the victory over fascism in Europe. The
Thatcherites would prefer us to forget it.
Not surprisingly, for it doesn't fit into
their picture of history one bit. But what
does it offer us today?
VE
Day - What Does it Mean to You?
We asked a range of people to give their
views on the significance of
the defeat of fascism in 1945.
What
Price Democracy?
Alan Hunt
Democracy and socilaism are intertwined.
Unless people believe that
socialism will be more democratic than capitalism,
then it won't happen.
Auntie
Shows Her Age
IanConnell
The future of die BBC has rarely been more
uncertain.
CHANNEL5
The
Party Revisited — Interview with
Trevor Griffiths
The British Art Show—Jeremy Vanes
REVIEWS
Dethroning
the Working Class — David Forgacs
Back
to the Land — Lee Chadwick
VIEWPOINT
Alexey
P Kozlov—View from the USSR
Jimmy
Airlie — Miners' strike balance
sheet
Sid Piatt
— Miners' strike: a NALGO view
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Rate
for the job • Limping
duck • A
new centre of gravity
FEATURES
West
on the Dole - Goran Therborn
Unemployment dominates the West. Yet the
experience of some countries, which have
managed largely to avoid it, suggests that
mass unemployment is not inevitable. But
if we fail, the social map of our societies
is likely to be transformed. A Brazilian
scenario could be the outcome.
Who'll
get Pleasure from Leisure? - Simon Frith
Leisure is being transformed. It's becoming
more important in people's lives and an
industry in its own right. But what kind
of leisure will it be?
Strained
Greens- Interview with Petra Kelly
The West German Greens have burst onto the
European political stage in the last decade.
But is now looks as if thei meteoric
rise could be at an end.
Smashing
the State: Thatcher's radical crusade
Andrew Gamble
Who would have guessed? A Tory government
deciding to reform the state. And that's
exactly what's happening.
Infertility-a
suitable case for treatment?
Marge Berer
Infertility has become a major political
issue. The Powell Bill may have fallen,
but the Left urgently needs to decide where
it stands.
CHANNEL 5
Michael
Jackson: the importance of being earnest?
— Graham McCann
A
Proletarian Outsider—Bob Dent
Crossing
the Picket Line - Interview with Finetime
Fontayne
REVIEWS
Centrifugal
Forces — Meghnad Desai
Assessing
the Strike—John Kelly
National
Identity — Jude Bloomfield
VIEWPOINT
David Graham — New
channels for TV
Stuart Hood — Auntie
shows her age
Paddy Ashdown — A
new partnership
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Beating
a retreat • Sinn
Fein on the move •
Splendid isolation • Labour's
new economic policy?
FEATURES
Welfare State - Safety Net or Poverty Trap
Peter Alcock
The Social Security Reviews have finally
seen the light of day. But, in
Thatcherite terms, they are a halfway house.
The
Long March to Modernisation: China after
Mao-
Interview with Qi Xiyu
It's a hundred flowers all over again, at
least on the economic front.
First
Principles - A View from the Right
Ferdinand Mount
Socialism is in crisis. It's time to return
to basics.
Paternalism
Revisited
Gareth Stedman Jones
Socialism certainly needs rethinking. We
do need to cast some things aside—but
not certain essentials.
The
Arts: Bad Counsel Prevails
Colin Chambers
The furore provoked by Gowrie and Rees-Mogg
has now died down a bit. But the future
of the arts remains up for grabs.
CHANNEL 5
Anyone
for Tennis? — Alan Bairner
Born
to Run: Bruce Springsteen
In the UK — Graham McCann
Funding
British Films—Chris Goodwin
A
Night at the Opera — Neil Pettinger
REVIEWS
The
Political Agenda of the 80s—Andrew
Gamble
The
Invisible Poor — Moira O'Toole
Cricket
Leadership — Mihir Bose
VIEWPOINT
Peter
Jenkins— Thatcher's Statism?
Tom
Ling—Towards Two Nations
Gerry
Pocock—Views on the USSR
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Biting
the bullet • Port-pourri
•
Down but not out •
FEATURES
Lebanon-Towards
Pax Syriana?- Roger Owen
Lebanon has become everyday news - and a
tragedy. Will it disintegrate or are the
contours of a stable settlement now visible?
The
Shape of the Workforce to Come
- Veronica Beechey
Just imagine. By 1990, one in four of all
jobs will be part-time, and half this workforce
will be women. . .
David
Hockney: a painter with class •
Simon Watney
David Hockney is a rare figure: an English
painter who is a household name.
Unfinished
business: the breaking of the NUM •
Hywel Francis
The secession of the Notts area now looks
imminent. If it happens, the NUM could be
reduced to virtual impotence.
CHANNEL 5
Mute
Points? — Interview with Daniel
Miller
East Enders - Christine Geraghty
Mission
England — Rosalind Brunt
REVIEWS
Roll
Over Gramsci: a selection of holiday reading
— Joanna Goulding
The
Beginning of a Debate — John Saville
A
Mine of Information — Brenda Kirsch
VIEWPOINT
Peter
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Apartheid's
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Jonathan Steele
South Africa has erupted. It has become
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Unions: Fighting on New Terrain -
A Roundtable Discussion
Six years on the defensive is a long time.
But the political levy ballots suggest the
future could be different.
Sex
and Morals-Rearming the Left
Lucy Bland
When it comes to sexual morality, the moral
Right is making the running. But the Left
is unclear about its own position.
Why
Aid Came Alive
David Edgar
Live Aid is one of the most important political
developments of the 80s.
And who would ever have guessed? But can
the Left grasp its significance?
Black
Sections: Radical demand...
or Distraction?
A Roundtable Discussion
Suddenly black politics is making headline
news. Or at least, black sections in the
Labour Party are.
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The new Labour leadership is just two years
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Holy
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Soul -John Wilkins
In November the Vatican council meets. Behind
it lies a bitter battle overthe direction
of the Catholic church.
Soft
Blue Shuffle - Andrew Gamble
The cabinet reshuffle was a bid to revive
the government's flaggingpopularity. Is
Thatcherism on the way out?
An
Alternative to the Alternative: Labour'sEconomic
Strategy Interview with Roy Hattersley
Labour's deputy leader has sparked controversy
with his recent economic proposals. Do they
represent a major break with previous strategies?
Towards
Youthopia? - Phil Cohen
From Heysel to Handsworth, what's happening
to the class of 85?
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Unnatural
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Ray Bush
Concern about the famine in Africa has grown
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Realignment-
For What?
Stuart Hall
'Realignment' is the talk of the town. But
what is it supposed to achieve?
Europe
Flexes Its Muscles
Jon Bloomfield
Western Europe is, bit by bit, acquiring
a new cohesion and independence. What it
might be used for is another matter.
Marilyn:
The Dream Lingers
Graham McCann
It is now over 20 years since Marilyn Monroe
died, yet fascination with her life and
what it represented remains as strong as
ever.
Teachers'
Hard Lessons
Martin Lawn
A year on, and the teachers' dispute remains
unresolved. The issues behind it all are
profound
Nick
Newman's Cut Out 'n Keep Diary for 1986
LETTERS
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Beyond
the local
J Grahl and P Teague
Macro-thinking
Andrew Glyn
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Interview
with Jonathan Miller • Miners'
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1980s
Tony Lane
Liverpool is never out of the news.
Be it Liverpool FC, Militant or John
Lennon, it won't go away.
Moderate
Muscle: The Alliance Takes Shape
Anthony Heath, Roger Jowell and John
Curtice
What should we make of this Alliance?
Was its vote in 1983a temporary aberration
or is it here to stay?
The New Detente? East-West Relations
After the Summit
Gerard Holden and Mary Kaldor
A new mood now prevails. At least
they are talking.
The
Beginning of the End? The Anglo-Irish
Accord
A Roundtable Discussion
The Hillsborough Accord is in place.
The meetings have started. Willnthis
be a historic turning-point in Irish
affairs, or just another episode in
an old juggling act.
The Race For Pole Position: The Car
Industry Revolution
Daniel T Jones and Andrew Graves
We are in the midst of a revolution
in the car industry. And this one
will make it easier for small manufacturers
to survive.
LETTERS
VIEWPOINT on Europe
MICHAEL
RUSTIN Flexing Europe's muscles
STEPHEN
BROWN Putting Europe back on the
map
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Tarzan
Takes The High Ground
Andrew Gamble
Heseltine poses the biggest internal
threat to Thatcher since 1979.
Turbulent
Priests
Kenneth Leech
'Her Majesty's official opposition'
is hardly a traditional description
of
the Church of England. But these days
it doesn't look so inappropriate.
Hung
Parliament: The Choices Facing Labour
Michael Rustin
We can't keep ignoring it. What should
Labour do if it doesn't command an
overall majority at the next election?
The
Alternative Economic Strategy: Goodbye
to All That?
Sam Aaronovitch
Ten years ago, the Left felt secure
in its economic prescriptions. It
certainly doesn't now.
LETTERS
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Interview
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Jesse Jackson hit the headlines in
1984 with his bid to the Democratic
nomination for the presidency. His
emergence on to the national scene
has given the black movement a new
and powerful expression and American
politics a new progressive voice.
Stuart Hall went to Chicago to
interview him.
The
Sparks Are Flying
John Lloyd
Wapping was long in the planning.
But Murdoch would never have made
it work without the EETPU. It's time
to take Hammond and Co very seriously.
Just
Another Child Abuse
EmilyDriver
Child abuse cases have become big
news. But this is not a new issue.
The
British Way of Death
John Robson
Britain has overtaken Finland as the
country with the highest number of
deaths from heart attacks. But, within
Britain itself, there are enormous
differences between women and men;
North and South; and, most importantly,
between social classes.
Black
Gold Loses its Shine
Michael Bleaney
The fall in oil prices brings an era
to an end. Just as the oil price
increases of the early 70s had profound
effects on the world economy, so will
this decline.
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RAMELSON Gospel according to Sam
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and Martin Jacques. On March 31, the
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as far as the Tories were concerned.
The Livingstone regime had shown just
how popular and creative left-wing
radicalism can be.
A
Flexible Future: Britain's dual labour
force
John Atkinson and Denis Gregory. New
divisions are appearing in the labour
force between a secure 'core' and
a vulnerable 'periphery'. What should
the unions do about it?
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Gorbachev Shake the World? A
Roundtable Discussion
Gorbachev has burst upon the world
scene.
The face of Soviet politics has been
transformed. How far will it go?
Interview
with Denis Healey
The Shadow
Foreign Secretary sets out his view
of the world.
Political
Animals
Sara Mills and Patrick Williams
The animal liberation movement commands
wide popular support today. The question
of animal rights, however, raises
fundamental questionsabout our view
of politics and nature.
LETTERS
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The
TUC dilemma
CHANNEL 5
Interview
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Churchill's bill
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People
Aid • a new politics sweeps the
land Stuart Hall and Martin Jacques
First Band Aid, then Live Aid, and recently
Sport Aid have changed the political
agenda. Aid is now a major national
issue.
Making
Waves • A Roundtable Discussion
Women's committees have tried to change
the politics of local government. But,
have they succeeded and are women's
interests really represented by these
structures?
After
Atlanticism
Dan Smith
Suppose a Labour government does try
and remove cruise. What will the US
do? Will the opposition be so great
as to force the government to back down?
Public
Sector Possibilities
Robin Murray
Nationalisation has been in retreat.
The old Morrisonian model is dead. But
pragmatism is no solution. Public ownership
matters. We need a new model, one of
openness and diversity.
Homage
to the Civil War
Manuel Azcarate
Fifty years ago this month saw the outbreak
of the Spanish civil war. It ended in
bitter defeat and paved the way for
the second world war. But its legacy
has served as an inspiration.
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on Defence and the Alliance
Paddy Ashdown and Neville Pressley give
their views.
CHANNEL 5
The
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The Apartheid Effect
Britain
and South Africa
Sarah Benton
South Africa is likely to have a much
bigger impact on British politics
than Vietnam. Already Thatcher is
in big trouble.
Divisions
in the Laager
Roger Omond
New tensions are appearing in the
Pretoria regime. But it is far from
disintegrating.
Latin
America: Can't pay.. .Won't pay?
John Wells
Latin America has been steamrollered
by the debt crisis. As yet no country
has defaulted, and now this looks
unlikely, though not impossible. Meanwhile
the region has suffered an unprecedented
economic contraction.
Guilty
Secrets: the role of women's therapy
Susie Orbach
Women's therapy emerged out of the
women's liberation movement.
But the movement's decline over the
last decade has thrown up new and
difficult problems for the former.
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on A Bill of Rights
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Royal Coup: Mrs Thatcher vs the Queen
Andrew Gamble
In July a constitutional crisis seemed
possible. Was the queen really as
critical of Mrs Thatcher's policies
as the Sunday Times reports implied?
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Unions
Interview with John Edmonds
On the eve of the TUC the General
Secretary of the General Municipal
Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union,
talks to Beatrix Campbell about the
options that lie ahead.
The
State of the Movement
Charles Leadbeater
Since the late 70s the unions have
been urged to change. What are the
pressures being brought to bear and
how well equipped is the movement
to deal with the changes.
Unemployment-the
resistible force-
Bob Rowthorn
Is mass unemployment a permanent feature
of modern capitalism. It's not the
case throughout Europe. The role of
the working class is crucial.
Why
Do Women Write?
Grace Nicholsand Fay Weldon Women's
writing is now big business. But what
motivates women to write?
The
Sectarian Divide: Ireland after the
Accord •
Paul Bewand Henry Patterson
Ten months after signing the Anglo-Irish
Agreement at Hillsborough, both Protestant
and Catholic violence has intensified.
The future looks bleak.
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market
forces could blow yet more business
away from Britain
Changing
contours: the legacy of Henry
Moore
Nuclear
reactions:
the Chernobyl political fallout is
landing in unexpected places
Phase-out:
the liklihood of a major
nuclear accident
The
Pill celebrates its 25th birthday
Card
carrying students
the
banks cash in
Phone-tapping:
the CND case
BEALINE
Beatrix Campbell launches her new
monthly column with a sense of deja
vu about the new-look Labour Party
LETTERS
Trade unions, football, Spanish civil
war...
FEATURES
Labour's Prospects
Past
Imperfect, FutureTense
The Labour Party has a real chance
of winning the next election. Eric
Hobsbawm examines its record in
government, and asks whether it can
learn the lessons of the past
Peace
in the Battle of the Sexes
Women have played a key role in the
peace movement. Kate Soper argues
that this does not suggest an innate
'feminine' rejection of violence
The
Importance of Being Liberal
David Steel discusses his party's
radicalism, its relationship with
the SDP, and what he thinks of the
Left
The
Painful Path to Health
Steve Iliffe argues for a radical
restructuring of health care to treat
the afflictions facing the NHS
Deliverance
Wendy Savage talks about the medical
profession and childbirth
CHANNEL5
Conservative
chic - Britain's retreat
in the style wars
Credibility
and mystery: John Berger writes
on the meaning of words
Independent's
Day: Andreas Whittam Smith talks
about his hopes for the new quality
newspaper to be launched this
month
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Cabaret, lager, Rosa, touring bands
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A non-nuclear defence policy may
not be as popular as some of its
advocates claim. To win support,
it must be part of a credible alternative
foreign policy
Black
Power:
The US sanctions vote
Poll
Teasers -
drugs dominate the campaigns as
America goes to the polls
Fighting
The Raj And The NF
One of Britain's key anti-racist
activists retires
Shares
At the Sales
privatisation is proving a bonanza
for advertising agencies as the
public is
invited to spend, spend, spend
Union
Mergers:
the contours of Britain's unions
look as if they might be in for
quite a shake-up
Roses
Are Red:
the Labour Party's new image
BEALINE
Beatrix Campbell looks at the 'right
to choose', the teenage
mother and Victoria Gillick
LETTERS
Black workers, CP bashing, women
and peace, healthy living
FEATURES
The
Rejkjavik Fiasco
Hopes were high for the mini-summit.
Gerard Holden explains why it all
went wrong and where it leaves us
1956
Eric Hobsbawm talks about the cataclysmic
year that changed the course of
communist history
Dodging
The Taxing Questions
Labour's got the right priorities,
but John Grahl and Bob Rowthorn
argue that it isn't facing up to
how to pay for them
Marxism
Today's Fund Special
Women
in The Mainstream
Taking positions of power brings
pressures that many women face for
the first time. Six women discuss
what it has meant for them, and
what their experiences reveal
Return
of The Fighter
Steve Vines looks at Israel's
new prime minister, and argues a
Middle East
settlement looks even more distant
CHANNEL5
Britain
has a new sporting
hero, an unlikely one, Brummie Nigel
Mansell
High
Comedy: Michelene Wandour interviews
Victoria Wood
A
Star Dies: Pat Phoenix's glittering
career
Pluto
Goes To The Dogs
America's
Blues Sisters
Pat
Barker: the mop and pen
CHANNEL
5 CHOICE
The Mission, National Service, new
computers, theatre
Anthony
Barnett on Harold
Wilson and Jack Jones; class
warriors into battle; The
Trotspotter's Wisden; PR
UPDATE
Peace meetings plus notes on contributors
COMMENT
Hywel Francis urges an honest approach
to analysing the miners' strike
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In The Deck
It is difficult to take Tebbit seriously.
But we should. He's trying to make
the broadcasters even more cautious
Scientific
breakthrough:
Nobel prize for woman's research
Bickering
Brothers:
The struggle for power inside the
TGWU
Star
wars:
Britain's scientists boycott SDI cash
Mozambique:
Machel's death
is the latest chapter in South Africa's
efforts at destabilisation
Biting
the vote:
Sinn Fein makes historic turn and
goes constitutional
BEALINE
Beatrix Campbell looks at the flop
that was the Jarrow March and asks
for some new thinking
LETTERS
Health politics; incomes policy and
economics; yuppie mums; Reykjavik;
strike breaking; 1956 and after
FEATURES
No
Light at the End of the Tunnel
The Tories are presently riding high
in the opinion polls. At the moment
they
look a likely bet for a third term.
Stuart Hall argues the nightmare is
far from over
Family
Matters
The fragile post-1960s consensus on
morality and the family is in tatters,
but what will replace it? Five women
from across the political spectrum
debate the family and morality in
the 80s
Journey
to Pretoria
Apartheid has been shaken. For two
years now South Africa has been in
uproar. Joe Slovo from the ANC executive
talks to Jonathan Steele about where
it will all lead
Sixteen:
Sweet or Sorry?
How real are the choices being offered
to girls in employment? Cynthia Cockburn
explains why sexual stereotyping lingers
on
Life
After Reykjavik
So near but so far: was that the story
of Reykjavik? Denis Healey and Fedor
Burlatsky consider the prospects for
detente following the mini-summit
CHANNEL5
Panto
Dames:
dressing up is hard to do
Is
the Camera Female?
Women photographers 1900-1955
Paradise
Postponed:
Christmas at home and abroad, the
yawning culture gap
MTV:
the lifeline to young middle America
revives
ageing British rock music
CHANNEL 5 CHOICE
Turkey
dinners:
dale trails; diary dates; music; movies
and
bizarre bazaars
1986
Christmas Crackers
Tom Sawyer on strikes and the unions;
critical canons; foodie fadbooks;
women's mags; nukes; and fascinating
fiction
UPDATE
Kids at Christmas plus notes on contributors
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