Volume 1 No 1 Spring 1957
editorial and contents

Russia in transition Isaac Deutscher

The French left-long-run trends
Claude Bourdet

Destalinisation and European security
K A Jelenski

The new conservatism and the old
Stuart Hall

What is happening to capitalism?
G D H Cole

The future of Marxism in the social sciences E J Hobsbawm

Socialism and the intellectual
E P Thompson


The crisis in town planning
Graeme Shankland

Housing the city dweller
D Gregory Jones

Commitment in cinema criticism
Lindsay Anderson


Commitment in art criticism
Peter De Francia

Dickens and his readers
Gabriel Pearson

Lucky Jim and the Labour Party
David Marquand

The Scottish University
John Mackintosh

Schools, class, society
Michael Amstrong

Full employment and after
Joan Robinson

Can political philosophy be neutral? Charles Taylor

Reviews Basil Davidson, HD Dickinson, Richard Pear, Roger Morgan

Vol. 1 No 2 Summer 1957

editorial: Hungary, H-Bomb, Germany
Algeria

The American "Income Revolution" Gabriel Kolko

Socialism and the intellectuals
Mervyn Jones

Socialism and the intellectuals
Harold Silver

Socialism and the intellectuals
Charles Taylor

Socialism and the intellectuals
Rodney Hilton

Socialism and the intellectuals
E P Thompson

The Italian Left Lelio Basso

Health and social class Margot Jefferies

Working class culture
Raymond Williams

Scolarship boy Alan Lovell

Variant reading John Lewis

Candy flossing the Celtic fringe
Gwyn Illtyd Lewis

The Crisis in Town Planning

Wanted-Critics John Berger

Wyndham Lewis:Obsequy with teeth Michael Ayrton

Free Cinema Lindsay Anderson

Science and the humanities
Robert Cassen

Can capitalism survive?
Gordon Henderson

Schools, class, society
John Dixon & Sidney Lubin

Commitment and criticism
Michael Armstrong

What is happening to capitalism?
Henry Collins

Reviews

A Left notebook
Ralph Samuel & Charles Taylor

front cover and adverts

3rd issue Winter 1958

John Strachey The German tragedy

Francois Fejto Hungary and Socialism

M. S. Hasan Middle East nationalism

Karel Reisi A use for documentaries

John Saville Labour movement historiography

Ernest Gellner Contemporary logical positivism

The Insiders
A study of the men who rule British industry
A new policy for social ownership
Left notebook
A note on the second impression
Introduction
The firms nobody owns
The horns of inflation
A democracy owning property
Inconspicuous colonialism
The scope of nationalisation
by Michael Artis and Peter Sedgwick
Retreat : The Labour Party and the public corporations by Clive Jenkins
The democratisation of power
A postscript: Who governs Britain ?
by Ralph Milliband

Russia alive Michael Kullman ,
In black and white Norman Birnbaum; Jean Jenkins

Reviews
Amerika, Wacht auch ! Ian Woolf
Thee deep sleep of England Stuart Hall

covers and adverts

4 Summer 1958

Editorial

France: The Authoritarianism of the Fifties
Ralph Samuel and Michael Segal

The Wandering Jew as Thinker and Revolutionary—Isaac Deutscher

Commitment
Inside the Whale Again—Stuart Halt

A Commitment Dialogue—with Christopher Logue

To My Fellow Artists
Christopher Logue

Realism and the Contemporary Novel—Raymond Williams

The End of Liberal Criticism
Graham Martin

Pages from a Painter's Diary
John Berger

Mr. Osborne and an Indifferent Society—W. I. Can

Artist, Critic and Teacher
Paddy Whannel

British Economic Policy Since the War—Michael Barratt-Brown

Discussion
The Insiders—Nationalization
John Hughes

Prices and Programmes—Paul Derrick

Nato, Neutralism and Survival
E. P. Thompson

The Face of Youth
The Anti-Culture Born of Despair—Michael Kullman

The Unnoticed Generation
Derek Allcorn

Nihilism's Organization Man
Clancy Sigal

The Social Thinking of D. H. Lawrence—Raymond Williams

Down in the Forest—D. J. Enright

Communications
On Not Misrepresenting Philosophy—Alasdair Maclntyre

Reply to Mr. Maclntyre—Ernest Gellner

Chronicle
Poland Between the Camps—Gordon Cruickshank

The Deep South—Alfred H. Greenberg

The Poverty of the Poverty of Historicism—Charles Taylor

Left Notebook
Noel Brailsford—Norman MacKenzie

Big Sir and the Oranges and Lemons—Stuart Hall

Cinema at Dead End—Rod Prince

Mr. Raymond and the Dead Souls—Stuart Hall

covers and adverts

5 Autumn 1958

Editorial

4 The Habit of Violence : Notting Hill

Documents
An Open Letter To The Congress of Cultural Freedom

Planning For Human Needs
The Real Outrage — Gordon Redfern

Alienation and Community — Charles Taylor

One New Town — John Harlow

Impressions of Two New Towns — Janet Hase and others

Glasgow Adolescents — Greta Duncan and Roy Wilkie

A Sense of Classlessness — Stuart Hall
Mass Communications

BBC and ITV After Three Years — Richard Hoggart

The Lively Medium ? — Audrey and Kit Coppard

Report From A Country School — Brian Jackson

The Press The People Want — Raymond Williams

Social Constraints and Academic Freedom — Norman Birnbau

The Welfare State
The Controllers — Michael Barratt-Brown

The Economics of Prosperity — Norman MacKenzie

New Authoritarianism — New Left — Ralph Samuel

A Culture In Common — Graham Martin

The Mass Persuaders : Advertising

The Algebra Of The Revolution — Alasdair MacIntyre

A Piece of Revelation : Zhivago — Michael Kullmann

Twelve Painters — Mary Turner

covers & adverts

Volume 1 No 6 Spring 1959

Editorial: Will Mr. Gaitskell Miss the Boat?

The Politics of Adolescence —
Stuart Hall

Where Next for the Campaign —
Alan Lovell

Labour's Task in Central Africa —
John Rex

Plan for Progress —
Michael Barratt-Brown

Room at the Top —
Paddy Whannel

Dr. Zhivago: A Discussion
— Stanley Mitchell and Michael Kullmann

The Ginger Jar — Bertolt Brecht

BOAC: Anatomy of a Strike —
Clive Jenkins

Steel: The Facts

The Controllers II —
Michael Barratt-Brown

Photography and Realism —
Roger Mayne

Class and Classlessness —
Ralph Samuel

Commitment in Politics —
Edward Thompson

Postscript on Cyprus — Gordon Marr

Communications: Historicism — Congress of Cultural Freedom

Cultural Notebook

Economic Notebook

Book Reviews:
Causes of World War III
— Justin Grossman
Brighter than a Thousand Suns
— Madeleine Simms
TV. and the Child
— Paddy Whannel
Labour Movement History
-- Eric Hosbawm

Contents & covers

7 Autumn 1959

Editorial: ULR to New Left Review

Round Table

Poem: Far Cry from Africa
Derek Walcott

Poem : Brother Cain—Robin Amis

Nato, The Bomb and Socialism
Peter Sedgwick

Two Steps Forward, One Step Sideways—Rod Prince

Absolute Beginnings—Stuart Hall

The Boss as Hero—Ralph Samuel

Dispute in Print—William Hampton

Forty-Hour Week?

The Realism of Arthur Miller
Raymond Williams

A Look Back at Osborne
Graham Martin

Ashes and Diamonds—Rod Prince and Alan Lovell

The Controllers III Michael Barratt Brown

The Big Swipe—Stuart Hall

Cultural Notebook

Socialist Realism—A Soviet writer

Book Reviews:
China Shakes the World Again
Roy Wilkie
Jazz and its Publics—Paddy Whannel
Lady Sang the Blues—Francis Newton
Sociological Imagination—A. H. Halsey
Saul Bellow's American
Michael Harrington
Road to Wigan Pier—Asa Briggs
Power at the Top—Ralph Miliband
All in a Lifetime—Dennis Butt

Poem : Your Immortal Memory, Burns!—Hugh MacDiarmid

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