International Socialism 115

Now Out - International Socialism 115
A quarterly journal of revolutionary socialism

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

Kim Moody interview: The superpower’s shopfloor

The rate of profit and the world today Chris Harman

A revolution in paint: 100 years of Picasso’s Demoiselles John Molyneux

The literature of a ravished continent: Achebe, Sembène and Ngugi Ken Olende

Plus book reviews - all in all, lots of reading for Histomat readers while I am away at Marxism...But while I am here, I might as well point out that yesterday was a good day for the Guardian letters page:

Simon Jenkins (Comment, June 29) seems to have forgotten that Gordon Brown does have a greater knowledge of history than his predecessor, having gained both a first-class degree and a PhD in the subject. The problem is that the erstwhile disciple of James Maxton now takes his assessment of the history of British imperialism from Niall Ferguson rather than John Newsinger.
Dr Tobias Abse
Department of history, Goldsmiths College, University of London

and here:

Your front page story on the London car bombs refers to them as "Iraqi style". Actually I don't think this is any kind of Iraqi tradition. It dates precisely from certain events in spring 2003.
Keith Flett
London