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We Are The Champions: Liverpool
vs the 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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Classical Ballet •
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Steven Spielberg
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Comrades • The
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The future of shop stewards
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• racism and
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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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The New Right •
Poverty
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British Gas •
French Trade Unions
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Westland fallout •
A dream come true? • Keep
on truckin' • Red
faces at Lloyd's
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Interview with Jesse Jackson
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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A Ministry for Women
JO RICHARDSON Labour's
proposals
NATHALIE HADJIFOTIOU A
vision of equality
The AES
GERRY POCOCK Steady as
you are
BERT RAMELSON Gospel according
to Sam
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Alan Bush and Michael Tippett
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• ANC film Stage
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• Unemployment
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Interview with Brenda Dean
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Sellafield • Philippines
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Goodbye to the GLC •
Beatrix Campbell
and Martin Jacques. On March 31, the GLC was abolished. For good reason,
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?
Will 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
VIEWPOINT
The TUC dilemma
CHANNEL 5
Interview with Julien Temple
• GLC and the arts
• London marathon
•
Churchill's bill
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Eddie Shah • Shakespeare
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Labour and Militant • Ireland's
Protestants • Crisis
in education
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Crime in the City
Richard Kinsey
The level of crime in our cities is growing apace. The Thatcher 'law and
order' strategy has failed. But what has the Left to offer?
The AIDS Scare
PaudHaggerty
For an illness which affects so few, the hysteria that has accompanied
AIDS is hard to explain. Except that, for the most part, its victims are
gay men.
The French Paradox
Keith Dixon
The Right is back in power in France - but with a left- wing president
still occupying the Elysee Palace.
Europe's Left: the new continental
blend
Donald Sassoon
The European Left has not been having an easy time of it. In the face
of adversity, however, some significant rethinking has been taking place.
The dark side of the Sun
Interview with Clare Short.
Winston Churchill and his crew were making the 'moral' running in the
House of Commons until, lo and behold, a Labour MP threw them into a state
of confusion by proposing the outlawing of Page Three. . .
LETTERS
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Glasgow's Mayfest •
Interview with Richard
Coles • Radio Two
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Civil servants • Tribal cultures
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Teachers' unions • Health and safety
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Nuclear Cloud over Britain
Tony Hall
Chernobyl has changed nuclear politics in Britain. Suddenly, the nuclear
industry is on the defensive and in a corner.
Soviet Power Failures
Zhores Medvedev
The Chernobyl disaster will have profound repercussions in the Soviet
Union.
The Gadafy Factor: Thatcher
and the
terrorist threat
George Joffe
The Conservative government found itself very isolated in its support
for the US attack on Libya. But the Reagan-Thatcher line on Libyan terrorism
has now gained widespread acceptance.
Aid Crusade: Interview
with Glenys Kinnock and Joan Ruddock
Live Aid made famine and aid one of the big political issues. The Left
was mainly a spectator. One World seeks to change all that.
The Battle of the Blackboard
Brian Simon
Before the local elections, the Thatcherites thought education might
be a potential vote-winner. Voucher-schemes and centralisation were
being actively canvassed. Now it looks rather different. On education,
the government is on the defensive.
Party Music
Simon Frith and John Street
Political pop has become very much the flavour of the month. The latest
expression is Red Wedge.
WOMEN ALIVE special
part
1 •
part 2
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Crime • Post-Summit Prospects
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Simone de Beauvoir •
Hi-tech architecture
• Royalty
REVIEWS
Heroines • the MSC • Cricket
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Royal College of Nursing
Multinational Ford and
national unions
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South Africa • Wapping • Salt 2 • Drugs and advertising • Africa and aid
FEATURES
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.
LETTERS
VIEWPOINT on Defence and the Alliance
Paddy Ashdown and Neville Pressley give their views.
CHANNEL 5
The Spanish civil war in photos and songs • Athletics and drugs •
Thatcher's changing image
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Terrorism • Political strikes
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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.
VIEWPOINT
on A Bill of Rights
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Martial arts •
Nawal El Saadawi
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The Alliance •
Chile • Commonwealth
• Education •
Wendy Savage
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A 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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NewWave 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.
LETTERS
VIEWPOINT
on Live Aid
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Football's troubles •
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Olivia O'Leary
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Adolescent girls •
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Big
Bang Bonanza:
Revolution is in the air as the City gears up for deregulation at the
end of the month. But the chill wind of 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
CHANNEL 5 CHOICE
Cabaret, lager, Rosa, touring bands
BOOK REVIEWS
Maya Angelou's recollections; UCS work-in; Sarah Benton on Elizabeth Wilson;
Umberto Eco; plus briefs
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Labour Party fringe meetings
COMMENT
Raphael Samuel warns against opening wounds within the Left
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David Edgar on Norman Tebbit
Labour
Facing Flak
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
CLOSEUP
Joan Smith on Duke Hussey
Beeb
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
CLOSE-UP
Susannah Tarbush on Assad and the Middle East