Issue 115
Conference
Marxism and Political Economy
Analysis
Britain after Blair
Sarkozy: the French Thatcher?
Greece: waves from the student struggle
Nikos Loudos
Robin Blackburn interview: What really ended slavery?
Nandigram and the deformations of the Indian left
Aditya Sarkar
Gordon Brown
Brown's Journey from Reformism to Neoliberalism
John Newsinger
New Labour's economic "record"
Chris Harman
José Carlos Mariátegui: Latin America’s forgotten Marxist
Mike Gonzalez
At an impasse? Anti-capitalism and the social forums today
Alex Callinicos and Chris Nineham
France at the crossroads
Antoine Boulangé and Jim Wolfreys
The rate of profit and the world today
Chris Harman
Kim Moody interview: The superpower’s shopfloor
A revolution in paint: 100 years of Picasso’s Demoiselles
John Molyneux
The literature of a ravished continent: Achebe, Sembène and Ngugi
Ken Olende
Book reviews
Snobs and snappers Andy Jones An abstract view of the past Matt Perry Stalin’s Irish victims Paul O’Brien The making of an agitator Chris Bambery New Left Review: The search for theory Ian Birchall The merchant and the Middle Ages Chris Harman Professor Jekyll and Comrade Hyde Viren Swami Persian proletariat Naz Massoumi A handbook for activism Katherine Connelly Pick of the quarter Revamping old formulas Iain Ferguson Marx's "transformation" made easy Joseph Choonara