Summer 1957 issue 1
Editorial
Soviet Socialism Hyman
Levy
The Anatonomy of Mau Peter
Worsley
An Open Letter to Shostakovich
Bernard Stevens
Dr. Marx and the Victorian Critics
E. J.
Hobsbawm
Behind the Brick Wall Tibor
Dery
Critique of the Poem for Adults
Adam
Wazyk
Song of the Gillie More Hamish
Henderson
Four Poems Tom McGrath
Chronicle, Polemic, Discussion
Striking the Balance Malcolm
MacEwen
Mr. Rothstein and the Soviet Union
Leonard Hussey
Hungary in Retrospect Peter
Fryer
A Note on Dogmatism John
Saville
Notes on the Polish Theatre
Jerry
Dawson
A Question of Orthodoxy Comus
Documents
Is This the Time ? Jean-Paul
Sartre
Internationalism Z. Romand
Discussion Article
Socialist Humanism
part 1 E. P.
Thompson
Socialist Humanism
part 2 E. P.
Thompson
Autumn 1957 issue 2
Editorial
Steel Nationalisation
John Hughe
The Day that Stalin Died
Doris Lessing
The Fall of Babylon
Randall Swingler
In Strydom's South Africa
Paul Hogarth
Africa's National Congresses
John Rex
Song of the Dead Soldier
Christopher
Logue
Laski: An Old Reasoner?
Stephen
Hatch
Sorting Furs (poem)
Jack Beeching
Nicholas Guillen (poem)
Harold Silver
Discussion
An Open Letter Harry
Hanson
Marxism and Humanism
Charles Taylor
Chronicle & Review
Workers' Councils
Royden Harrison
The Soviet Changes
Malcolm MacEwen
Documents
The Dignity of Science
Leopold Infeld
The Freedom of the Writer
Arthur Miller
Three Poems Nazim
Hikmet
The Swimming Pool
Nazim Hikmet
About our Contributors
Winter 1957 issue 3
Editorial
John Saville: The Welfare State
Alexander Yashin: Levers
Peter Worsley: Dehumanised Humanity—
Albert Schweitzer
Bertolt Brecht: Two Poems
Kenneth Muir: Marx's Conversion
to
Communism
WILLIAM BLAKE
BICENTENARY
SUPPLEMENT
W. P. Jessup: The Making of 'London
'
E. P. Thompson: God & King
& Law
Joseph Clark: Letter from America
DISCUSSION
Jack Lindsay: Socialism and Humanism
John St. John: Response to Harry
Hanson
Tim Envright: Materialism or Eclecticism?
DOCUMENT
Franco Fortini: Letter to a Communist
Paul Baran Economic Growth (a
review)
Letter to Our Readers
Among Our Contributors
A Protest—and an Appeal
Spring 1958 issue 4
Beyond the Bomb
Can We Have a Neutral Britain?
Malcolm MacEwen: The Two Camps
Mervyn Jones: Scrolls from the
Dead Land
C. Rajagopalachari: Positive Co-existence
K. Zilliacus: A Socialist Foreign
Policy
38 M. Barratt-iBrown: A Foreign
Economic Policy
John Rex: Central Africa and Racial
Dictatorship
Titior Dery: Odysseus (short story)
Montagu Slater: A Group of Poems
Paul Hogarth: Diego Rivera (Inset)
W. McGonagall: The Flowers that
Bloom .
Impressions of Boris Pasternak
A Sputnik Symposium
N. W. Plrie: The Lunatic Fringe
of Space
Tom Kaiser: Some Disagreements
Claude Roy: Not by Sputniks Alone
Alan Pickard: Democracy &
Trade Unions
Christopher Hill: Antonio Gramsci
Cedric Belfrage: 'Masquerade'
in Cairo
Gordon Cruikshank: Gomulka's Poland
Dal Vaughan: To the Future (Poem).
Stephen Hatch, Dorothy Thompson:
The Welfare State (discussion)
S. Dedijer: Freedom & Scientific
Research
Letter to Our Readers
Among Our Contributors
Summer 1958 issue 5
Editorial
Doris Lessing : The Sun Between
Their Feet
G. D. H. Cole : Next Steps in British
Foreign Policy
George Cruikshank : The Boa Desolator
Claude Bourdet: The Way to European
Independence
D. G. Arnott: Ammunition for the
Campaign
Christopher Logue : The Song of
Autobiography
Ralph Miliband : The Politics of
Contemporary Capitalism
Peter Worsley : Britain - Unknown
Country
Jack Lindsay : Daumier and de Gaulle
Gyula Illyes : Ode to Bartok
INTERNATIONAL CHRONICLE
Jan Szczepanski: Working-class
and Intelligentsia in Poland
Ronald L. Meek : Marxism in Japan
Imre Nagy : On Socialist Morality
DISCUSSION
E. P. Thompson : Agency and Choice
- 1
Roddy Barry : Is Neutrality Necessary?
Peter Smith : The Welfare State
REVIEW
Christopher Hill: Fresh Light
on Marx
Jane Roberts : Galileo and the
Dogmatists
DOCUMENT
Excerpts from the Yugoslav Draft
Programme
Letter to Our Readers
covers
Autumn 1958 issue 6
Editorial
Harry Hanson : Britain and the
Arabs John St. John : The Exile
David Ross : The Fall of Paris,
1958
Adam Wazyk : The Railway Carriage
SEARCHLIGHT ON LABOUR
Ralph Miliband : The Transition
to the Transition
John Rex : The Labour Bureaucracy
Art and the Community (with illustrated
supplement)
Barnett Stross : Parliament and
Patronage
John Berger : Art and Labour
Michael Barratt-Brown : The £
and the 1%
Peter Ibbotson : Labour's Education
Policy
REVIEW
Royden Harrison : ' Practical,
Capable Men '
CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK
Mervyn Jones : Notes on a Train
Peter Worsley : Coast to Coast
DOCUMENT
Dora Scarlett: Revisionism in
East Germany
Letter to Our Readers
On
the Cover : drawings by Andre Francois
John Stuart Mill & E.O.K.A.
Ronald L. Meek : A Dogmavisionist
in Warscow
Peter Barnes : A Safe Job
D. G. Arnott: Pu-240, U-235 &
Homo Sap
John Marshall: St. Ann's Well Notebook
Trex & Transport House
Herbert Smith : Keeping House
Dora Scarlett: A Bureau in Hungary
V. G. Kiernan : Wordsworth Revisited
New Reasoner Folio 1
Lajos Tamasi: A Rhapsody
Tom Mboya : Kenya Reviewed
DISCUSSION
Alasdair Maclntyre : From the Moral
Wilderness
Kenneth Muir : Education Policy
INTERNATIONAL CHRONICLE
Maria Vejan : Religion in Poland
Dorothy Thompson : Delegation
Fraternelle
REVIEW
Ken Alexander on Conviction;
J. T. Murphy on Communist
History;
Malcolm MacEwen on Nagy;
John Hughes on Nationalisation;
Peter Worsley on the Middle Classes;
M. Barratt-Brown on the Common
Market;
Iris Murdoch on Dr. Zhivago
DOCUMENT
V. Ivasheva : Revisionism in Britain
Letter to Our Readers
Spring 1959 issue 8
Mervyn Jones : The Glossy
Election Dorothy E. Cole : Socialist
Pensions (with drawings by James Boswell)
T. N. Street: The Pound and the
ElectionI
Two Tributes to G. D. H. Cole
Kingsley Martin
Asa Briggs
Jacques Prevert: Pater Noster
Ronald L. Meek : Mr. Strachey's
Economics
Arnold Rattenbury : Girl in a Yellow
Sack
Peter Thirlby : The Piper on the
Parapet
Bernard Stevens : Rutland Boughton
John McLeish : Contemporary Soviet
Psychology
Alasdair Maclntyre : From the Moral
Wilderness II.
DISCUSSION
John Saville on British Communist
History
A. H. Halsey on Inequalities
in Education
Alba Taylor on Religion in Poland
Eric Heffer on The ' Vanguard'
Theory
INTERNATIONAL CHRONICLE
Cedric Belfrage : ' Communist
Social Democrats' in Kerala
Claude Bourdet: The Imperial Frenchmen
REVIEW
Rodney Hilton on Christopher
Hill and his Critics;
Alfred Dressier on Humanists
and Revisionists ;
Dorothy Thompson on The Chartist
Challenge ;
A. E. P. Duffy on Labour's Origins
Letter to Our Readers
E. P. Thompson : The
New Left
D. G. Arnott: Campaign Notebook
David Ross : The Life & Logic
of John Foster Dulles
Roddy Barry : Giancarlo (story)
Ronald L. Meek : Professor BIyumin's
Economics
Tibor Meray : Imre Nagy, Communist
V. G. Kiernan : Culture and Society
AFRICAN CHRONICLE
John Rex on The Meaning of the
Accra Conferences ;
M. W. K. Chiume on Nyasaland's
Case for Secession.
DISCUSSION
A. H. Hanson and Mervyn Jones on The
Moral Wilderness ;
D. F. Swift on Intelligence and
Education
REVIEW
F. Le Gros Clark : World Without
War
Richard Pear on World War III.;
Malcolm MacEwen on China's Forward
Leap ;
Ken Alexander on Public Bosses;
Martin Baillie on Art and Philosophy
; Ralph Miliband on The Yugoslav
Programme ;
Ronald L. Meek on Marx and
Hegel's Nose ;
Alasdair Maclntyre on Soviet
Ideology.
DOCUMENT
Antonio Gramsci : Letters on the
Jewish Question
The Ket and the Pottle
Letter to our Readers
On the Cover: The
Bishop of Steel and the Archmedium of Mass Annointing
the Third Tory Victory (G. Cruikshank, 1821)
E. P. Thompson : A Psessay in Ephology
John Saville : A Note on West Fife
Ronald L. Meek : Karl Marx's Economics
Edwin Brooks : Comrades and Aldermen
R. W. Davies : The Russian Economy
W. Woroszylski: The Cruel Star
Alison Ravetz : A Note on V. G.
Childe
Paul Hogarth : Russian Graphic
Art of 1905 (pictures)
A POLEMIC ON THE WAGES PLAN
H. A. Turner : Unsocialist Wages
Policy
Michael Kidron : The Limits of
Reform
John Corina : Wages and Earnings
Ken Alexander & John Hughes : A
Reply to Critics
CORRESPONDENCE
From the Rt. Hon. John Strachey, M.P. From Henry Pelling
From Peter Cadogan
REVIEW
Conrad Bollinger on Welfare and New Zealand ;
T. R. Kaiser on The Individual and the Universe ;
Malcolm Caldwell on Public Enterprise
DOCUMENT
Peter Worsley : Further Letters
of Gramsci
Letter to Our Readers