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International Socialism Journal 115 – Summer 2007

Slavery * Brown: Reformism to Neo-liberalism * Anti-Capitalism and the Social Forums * France after the Elections * The US Working Class * Mariategui * Falling Rate of Profit * Picasso

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Tony Blair is gone at last. But New Labour has not changed its spots. John Newsinger shows Gordon Brown to be its real architect, and we tear apart his claims about his economic record.

Official commemorations ascribed the abolition of the slave trade to a benevolent British ruling class. Robin Blackburn. author of a monumental two volume history of the rise and fall of New World slavery, tells a very different story He highlights the role of black resistance and revolutionary upheavals.

A massacre of protesting peasants in Nandigram, West Bengal, ruled by a 'left' state government, has led to outrage. Aditya Sarkar asks where the Indian left should go from here.

Revival of anti-capitalist struggle in Latin America has resurrected interest in the ideas of a Peruvian revolutionary of the 1920s, Mariategui. Mike Gonzalez looks at one of the 20th century's innovative Marxists.

Few of Marx's idea have produced as much criticism from subsequent Marxists as his theory of the falling rate of profit. Chris Harman explains the theory and looks at its relevance to capitalism today.

Rostock's G8 protests proved that the anti-capitalist movement born at Seattle is far from dead. But new challenges compel it to examine some old assumptions, argue Alex Callinicos and Chris Nineham.

Antoine Boulange and Jim Wolfreys look at the prospects in France after Sarkozy's election, and Nikos Loudos looks at the impact in Greece of 12 months of student and teacher struggles.

"Show me the Zulu Tolstoy" was the American novelist Saul Bellows' excuse for attacking multiculturalism. But Africa has produced some brilliant novelists in the past half century. Ken Olende looks at the way three of these writers reflected the hopes of decolonisation and, later, the bitterness at still being trapped in the poorest part of an oppressive system.

Most commentators locate the birth of modernism in art and literature a hundred years ago. John Molyneux looks at the "revolutionary" impact of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Plus Kim Moody talks to International Socialism about the state of the US working class movement today.

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Udgivet første gang: 2007

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223 sider

Sprog: engelsk

Pris: 35 kr.

ISBN: 978-19051-9228-1

Forlag: International Socialism

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