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1990

 

No. 1025 January 1990*

• Editorial: What will you be doing in the ’90s?
• Sting In The Tail: Progress Backwards
• 50 Years Ago: A Socialist New Year Message
• Obituary: Helen Rose
• Between the Lines: Soap Wars
• They said it in 89
• Labour’s hypocrisy
• Diary of the Capitalist: Sunday
• Caught in the Act: The Loyalty Game
• About ourselves
• Capitalism Causes Housing Problems
• Left Foot, Right Foot
• Socialism Has Not Failed
• Practical Socialism pt.1

 

No. 1026 February 1990*

• Editorial: The Lessons of East Europe
• Caught in the Act: Also rans
• The German Question
• Between the Lines: When TV told the truth
• Letters to the Editors: Class, inflation
• The Welcome in the West
• Nationalism and economic collapse
• Solidarity governs in Poland
• British Left in Disarray
• Sting in the Tail: Getting Thatcher Out
• From Cold War to Class War

 

No. 1027 March 1990*

• Editorial: After Apartheid, What?
• Letters to the Editors: East Europe
• Caught in the Act: Punishers and Moonlighters
• The price of caring
• Land of the Free?
• Workers’ Paradise?
• Who are the dreamers?
• Between the Lines: MURDOVISION
• Sting in the Tail: Spare Parts For Sale
• 50 Years Ago: Should We Leave Politics to the “Intelligent Minority”?
• Obituaries: Harry Edwards; Phyllis Howard; Vic Berry; Neil Brodie
• Book Review: ‘The Unbroken Thread’, by Ted Grant
• From Privilege to Profits
• Socialism and Ecology
• Practical Socialism pt.2
• Marxism versus Leninism

 

No. 1928 April 1990*

• Editorial: Poll Tax battles
• 50 Years Ago: The Stalin Dictatorship
• Against apartheid
• Anyone for change?
• Caught in the Act: Missing a stroke
• Letters to the Editors: The Real World
• Tenners for fivers
• Book Review: ‘Seeing Red, Being Green’
• Between the Lines: Power Play
• Sting in the Tail: Force and Revolution
• Russia and Private Property
• Inflation: the Endless Farce
• What Next for South Africa?

 

No. 1929 May 1990

• Editorial: Return of Labour?
• Gorbachev and Socialism
• Human nature and Socialism
• Between the Lines: Only Joking
• What the paper said
• Sting in the Tail: Recipe for Profit
• What We Mean By Revolution?
• An American Marxist
• Where the Greens go wrong
• Is Socialism Dead?

 

No. 1030 June 1990

• Editorial: After Tiananmen
• Stalin the Bolshevik
• Caught in the act: Who’s afraid of Labour?
• Strange ways
• Will China Follow?
• Book Review: ‘The Socialism of Bernard Shaw’
• Obituary: Ron Melia
• The State and Chernobyl

 

No. 1031 July 1990

• The Lies That Kill
• 50 Years Ago: Super-Capitalist Russia
• Obituary: Jimmy Rushton
• Mad cows and Englishmen
• From SDP to SDP
• Book Review: ‘The Green Capitalists’
• Book Review: ‘It Doesn’t Have To Be Like This’
• Sting in the Tail: Winners . . . and Losers

 

No. 1032 August 1990

• Editorial: What Must We Do?
• Book Review: Charity and the State
• Book Review: Market myths
• Food, Hunger and Politics
• Between the Lines: Charlie’s Arm and Lenin’s Brain
• Letters: Technology to blame?
• 50 Years Ago: Federal Europe or Internationalism
• Trotsky – the Prophet Debunked
• Russia’s Crisis Congress

 

No. 1033 September 1990

• Editorial: Another War for Oil
• Rioting for reforms
• A message for Cathy
• Book Review: Green Scenario
• Tolpuddle and today
• What’s wrong with the unions?
• The War Crisis in the Middle East

 

No. 1034 October 1990

• Book Review: Leninists Oppose Democracy
• Obituary: Walter Kobus
• Is the Left Finished?
• What About the Workers?
• Book Review: ‘William Morris & News from Nowhere’
• Morris and Revolution

 

No. 1035 November 1990

• Morris and Socialism
• Letters: Anti-War Meeting
• Obituary: Jack Thurston
• Myth of Overpopulation
• Between the Lines: The Detestable Lord Wyatt
• Who Needs Money?
• Divide and Rule in Kuwait
• Economic Causes of the Gulf War

 

No. 1036 December 1990

• Editorial: The Demise of Thatcher
• Don’t be a soldier
• Book Review: Turgid Philosopher
• Obituary: John Perryman
• Party News: News From Austria
• Capitalism Moves Into Recession
• Nation or class?
• The End of Fukuyama
• Great Men and Greater Nonsense
• Politics of Poetry

 

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1991

 

No. 1037 January 1991*

• Editorial: Classless Britain – A Major Fallacy
• Death in Downing Street
• Had a happy christmas?
• They said it in 1990
• Letters: Don’t die for oil
• Book Review: Bombastic blusterer
• 50 Years Ago: Hitler the “Socialist”
• Caught in the Act: Two Of A Kind
• Between the Lines: From Hamlet to Hilda Ogden
• Sting in the Tail: Class Act
• Young, homeless, hopeless
• Merchants of Death
• [The reformists]

 

No. 1038 February 1991

• Editorial: Capitalism unleashes war
• The first casuality
• Schooled for capitalism
• Propaganda from Iraq
• Book Review: ‘Playing Them False – A Study of Children’s Toys, Games and Puzzles’
• Class War

 

No. 1039 March 1991

• Editorial: Capitalism, War and Recession
• Caught in the Act: Goodbye To All That
• Gorbachev clamps down
• Between the Lines: Whose Victory?
• Sting in the Tail: Market Morality
• Myth and Reality
• Obituary: Fred Kenny

 

No. 1040 April 1991

• Editorial: The coming election
• The Case for Socialism
• Caught In The Act: Chequered career
• After the Slaughter . . .
• Ecology and revolution
• Engels on Ecology
• Book Review: Renegade socialist
• Between the Lines: The Art Attack
• 50 Years Ago: Bernard Shaw on Socialism
• Sting in the Tail: Competition Humbug
• Do you like your work?
• Barbarians at the gate
• Book Review: Money worship
• Obituary: Stan Law
• Relative Values

 

No. 1041 May 1991*

• Editorial: The Communist Party—It’s All Over
• Class struggle
• Between the Lines: Forbidden moments
• Alcohol accounting
• Rise and Fall of a Pitboy
• Book Reviews: ‘The Ideology of the Text’ and ‘Yours For The Revolution’
• End of the Road

 

No. 1042 June 1991

• Editorial: To give money or to abolish money?
• Book review: Utopia Now
• Sting in the Tail: Send for Jeeves
• Book Review: ‘Rosa Luxemburg’
• Was Kinnock Always a Tory Wet?
• Organise to End the Profit System
• SWP Contradictions (1)
• NHS Crisis: A Socialist Nurse Speaks Out

 

No. 1043 July 1991

• The Market-Worshippers
• Nationalism—a dangerous illusion
• Independence for Eritrea?
• 50 Years Ago: Quick changes by the Communist Party
• Banks and the Third World Elite
• The Last Story
• Between the Lines: Dispatches, News Priorities and GBH
• SWP Contradictions (2)
• A World In Common
• Money Screws You Up

 

No. 1044 August 1991

• Editorial: Europe and Mrs Thatcher
• Book Review: Racism debunked
• Book Review: Fairy tales
• Myth of the leisure society
• A Thought From George Jackson
• What Next for Yugoslavia?
• Fake ‘Socialism’ Ends in Albania
• SWP Contradictions (3)
• The Eileen Critchley Show

 

No. 1045 September 1991

• Editorial: Kremlin Coup—Lies, Tanks & Western Banks
• Book Review: Rio Tinto plunder
• Disasters: who’s to blame?
• Book Review: Crazy World of Economics
• How long will the slump last?
• Letters: Militant’s future
• What About Russia?

 

No. 1046 October 1991

• Editorial: Why capitalism must go
• 50 Years Ago: Mr. Keynes Goes to the Bank
• of England
• Sting in the Tail: 30 Wasted Years
• Reaching where other propaganda can’t
• Access, free and not free
• Economic Crisis in Russia
• Party News: Recent Socialist Activities
• Book Review: ‘Marxism and Nationalism’
• Book Review: ‘The Socialist Labor Party 1876-1991 – A Short History’
• Jack Common and Working Class Writing
• The Collapse of Trotsky’s Monument
• Another Labour Government or Socialism?

 

No. 1047 November 1991

• Editorial: Missed opportunities, shattered dreams
• We are not inferior
• Redundancy strikes again
• Socialist Definitions
• Sting in the Tail: Same Old Story
• Book Review: Reformism
• Pamphlet Review: Eastern Europe
• When Labour Ruled (1)
• Book Review: ‘Columbus: His Enterprise – Exploding the Myth’

 

No. 1048 December 1991*

• Editorial: Festival of Commerce
• The Poverties of Capitalism
• Cartoon: Sheer Hard Slog
• Cartoon: Free! I’m Free!
• Between the Lines: Humbug!
• 50 Years Ago: Communist Support for Conservative Candidates
• Sting in the Tail: Let’s Get Swamped
• What Do We Mean By Class?
• Who’s afraid of socialism?
• Caught In the act: In The Raw
• The end of utopia?
• When Labour Ruled (2)
• Dreaming Spires and Screaming Tyres
• The End of Utopia?
• A Professor Defends Capitalism
• Book Review: Land monopolists
• Book Review: The Road to Tiananmen
• Book review: What about Lenin?
• Party News: Socialists and the Coming Election
• Party News: Weekend Education Conference
• 50 Years Ago: Have we seen the last Millionaire?

 

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1992

 

No. 1049 January 1992

• Editorial: Profit before need—again
• 50 Years Ago: Prophecies on the Outcome of the War
• Recent Socialist Activities
• Moscow Gold
• Caught in the act: Whimper, Whimper, You’re Dead
• Your money or your life
• When Labour Ruled (3)
• Between the Lines: Timewasters 1 & 2

 

No. 1050 February 1992

• Editorial: No to nationalism
• 50 Years Ago: Trade Relations After The War
• Letters to the Editors: Undemocratic SLP
• Between the Lines: Death, hypocrisy and videotape
• If Labour Wins . . .
• Book Review: ‘The Economy Under Mrs Thatcher 1979-90’
• Obituary: Ian Jones
• Uncommon Tragedy

 

No. 1051 March 1992

• Editorial: An Unfair Fight
• 50 Years Ago: Are The Workers Better Off During The War?
• Life on the dole
• Introducing A Dirty Word
• The Theory of State Capitalism
• Letters: Letters: Carmageddon?
• Letter: Co-operatives and capitalism
• Obituaries: Albert Baker and Paul Maxwell
• Book Review: ‘National Liberation’
• Socialism Made Simple
• Socialists and the Election

 

No. 1052 April 1992*

• Editorial: Socialist Manifesto
• Another pointless bloodbath
• The rich are still there
• “I want to see more of my product.”
• Caught In The Act: Future Uncertain
• Are you under age?
• Party News: Election Fund
• Letters: The Tragedy of the Commons
• Book Review: Future trends
• Party News: Election Latest: your help needed
• Between the Lines: Debate of the Decayed
• 50 Years Ago: War-Time Restrictions on Publication
• Sting in the Tail: Labour Sees Stars
• No ideas please — we’re followers
• Begging for A Last Chance
• Democracy
• Obituary: Tony Turner

 

No. 1053 May 1992*

• Editorial: End of a Dream
• 50 Years Ago: Political Parties and the Workers
• Between the Lines: An Open Letter to the Director General, BBC
• Obituary: Dave Conn
• Letters: Crime statistics
• Story of an election
• What about pension rights?
• Sting in the Tail: So What’s New?
• Recovery—phantom of the economy
• Letters: Socialists and Parliament
• Violence at work
• Questions—and the answer

 

No. 1054 June 1992

• Editorial: Saving the Earth
• 50 Years Ago: Japanese Background
• Action Replay: Bastia Disaster
• Book Review: Who needs money?
• Obituary: George East
• Green Party Embraces the Market
• L.A. Law or Class War?

 

No. 1055 July 1992*

• Editorial: Going for gold
• They Said It . . .
• 50 Years Ago: Human Nature, the Black
• Market and Socialism
• Between the Lines: And Now For Our Younger Viewers . . .
• Party News: Election Fund
• Letters: Socialists and Majority Action
• “Uneconomic” hospitals to close
• Canary Wharf: monument to capitalism’s priorities
• Opportunity Knocks
• What makes you angry?
• Obituaries: Tommy Jones and Willie Stewart
• Sting in the Tail: Perks of the Job
• Smith or Gould—who cares?
• Tolpuddle Martyrs Rally
• The Dead Russians Society

 

No. 1056 August 1992

• Editorial: What classless society?
• Production without profits
• Post-War Reconstruction
• War—what it means and why
• Saving time—for what?
• Is human nature a barrier to socialism?
• This is Socialism!
• Human-nature
• Book Review: Against the state
• Book Reviews: Boris and the Bolsheviks
• 50 Years Ago: A Challenge to Mr. Bevin on

 

No. 1057 September 1992

• Editorial: Capitalism fails again
• 50 Years Ago: Gandhi and the Millionaires
• Party News: Socialist summer school
• Obituary: Harry Hayden
• Can the Welfare State Survive?
• History – Whose Story?
• Who Needs Leaders?

 

No. 1058 October 1992*

• Editorial: ‘Yawn in the USA’
• Sting in the Tail: Nazis
• New act in the courts
• The politics of Class War
• Final Demands
• They Said It . . .
• Lamont’s long wait
• What is capitalism?
• 50 Years Ago: The Worker and his Work
• Jobless—who’s to blame?
• Organise—without leaders
• Book Review: Saklatvala’s “Holy Ghost”
• Book Review: ‘The Fifth Commandant’
• Between the Lines: Uncle Sam’s Half-forgotten Purge
• Book Review: ‘Karl Marx, Our Contemporary’ (Keith Graham)
• Shelley – Poet and Socialist

 

No. 1059 November 1992*

• 50 Years Ago: The Ugly Reality of Indian Nationalism
• Sting in the Tail: What’s Up Doc?
• Letters: Yugoslavia
• Keynes — in the land of the sinking sun
• New World Order Comes to Iraq
• Europe’s new war plane
• Against the market
• The Magic of the Mad-House
• Party News: Readers Survey Results
• Market not the only way to live
• Between the Lines: Parsons, Baker & Quayle
• “Too Many” Bricks
• King Market Kills King Coal

 

No. 1060 December 1992*

• Editorial: The Starvation in Somalia
• 50 Years Ago: Some Socialist Points on the
• Beveridge Report
• Between the Lines: House of Frauds
• The Futility of Reformism
• New Realism
• From Columbus to Clinton
• From Recession to Slump
• Gold-Seeking Guru
• Slump—France hit too
• Sting in the Tail: Pecking Order
• Why Beveridge Reorganized Poverty
• Obituary: Freddie James

 

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1993

 

No. 1061 January 1993*

• Editorial: The divorce of the decayed
• Capitalism and the Comet
• What Socialists Want
• Greed, need and free access
• That was the annus that was
• Letter: Who’s right about human nature?
• Letters: Hypocrisy about drugs
• Between the Lines: The Road to Nurenberg
• 50 Years Ago: The Rich are no Longer with Us
• They said it . . .
• A seller’s life
• Sting in the Tail: Food for thought
• Book Review: Colour barred
• Prisons, suicide and profit
• Obituary: Frank Evans
• “Abolish Money” – Sinead O’Connor

 

No. 1062 February 1993

• Editorial: Wrong questions
• Towards one Europe?
• Party News: SPGB Summer School: Mental Freedom and Social Power
• Irish Labour Party in power
• Between the Lines: Letter from the BBC
• Letters: Sinead O’Connor
• Sting in the Tail: Tory Think Tankers
• Obituary: Sid Catt
• Why did the US invade Somalia?
• 50 Years Ago: 1943—The War and the Workers
• The Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen pt.1
• What the Fascists Need

 

No. 1063 March 1993

• Editorial: Doctor Smith Operates
• Two anti-Leninists
• Capitalism and mental health
• Problem of sexism
• Obituary: Ernie Purkiss
• Obituary: Bob Gleghorn
• The Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen pt.2
• Book Review: ‘Dare To Be A Daniel – A History of One of Britain’s Earliest Syndicalist Unions’

 

No. 1064 April 1993

• Editorial: The future for socialism
• Sting in the Tail: Death Ships
• “The Mail on Sunday” on socialism
• 50 Years Ago: Why Lord Nuffield Looks After the Workers

 

No. 1065 May 1993*

• Editorial: Towards three million again
• Book Review: The human nature argument
• Party News: Election Fund: £3847
• Hunger amidst plenty
• Between the Lines: Return to EastEnders
• Sting in the Tail: A dog’s life
• Letter: “The money, price and profit system”
• Book Review: Morality and hunger
• Here we go again?
• Book Review:Harry was a Bolshie
• 50 Years Ago: Contemptible Communist Propaganda Methods (1993)
• Gunmen, Get Lost!
• Book Review: ‘Keeping My Head’
• Roots of Gay Oppression
• Biology and Behaviour

 

No. 1066 June 1993

• Editorial: The IRA bombing campaign
• Future of work and leisure
• Where is South Africa going?
• Book Review: ‘Demanding the Impossible – A History of Anarchism’
• Poem: ‘Malcolm Xploited’
• Beyond Capitalism

 

No. 1067 July 1993

• Editorial: Bosnia—who started it?
• Economics is bunk
• The Old Bill and the new Tony
• Why you should be a socialist
• Obituary: Jack Moore
• Book Review: ‘The Beauty Myth’
• Banks and the Crisis

 

No. 1068 August 1993

• Editorial: What is Democracy?
• 50 Years Ago: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini
• Letter: Alternative to market
• Book Review: Modern Political Ideologies
• Book Review: The Silent Conspiracy
• More Economic Bunk
• But Flies Are Not Human

 

No. 1069 September 1993

• Editorial: Break the Link With Labour
• Sting in the Tail: Down on the farm
• Barbarism stalks Brazilian youth
• Summer School
• Farewell to the Middle Class
• Book Review: Marx and the Missing Link
• Obituary: Harry Morriss
• A Vision of Green Socialism

 

No. 1070 October 1993

• Editorial: Cure for the Fascist Cancer
• LBC RiP
• World recession closes in quickly
• How to join the fight for Socialism
• 50 Years Ago: Money and Socialism
• State Murder in the USA
• Rewriting Marx
• Peace in Palestine

 

No. 1071 November 1993

• Editorial: Why Capitalism must go
• Sting in the Tail: Too many kids?
• What is Love?
• The Soul of Man
• Book Review: The Illusion of Choice
• Book Review: ‘Double Jeopardy – The Retrial of the Guildford Four’
• Anyone for the Vanguard?
• The Profit System Must Go

 

No. 1072 December 1993

• Editorial: Cuts, Cuts and More Cuts
• Does the SWP have an answer to racism?
• Letters: Profound Disequilibrium
• Support the Status Quo!
• Advertising: selling the system
• Book Review: A Culture of Contentment?
• Film Review Films
• Party News: Go for a million update
• Between the Lines: “Life under capitalism is a serious business . . .”
• Sting in the Tail: Winter blues
• 50 Years Ago: The Black Hole of Calcutta
• Book Review: A Culture of Contentment?
• Book Review: Scargill

 

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1994

 

No. 1073 January 1994*

• New World disorder
• Editorial: Why politicians tell lies
• The Case for Socialism
• What Socialists want
• Book Review: English Legal System
• Letter: National Health Service
• Party News: Go for a million update
• Obituary: Robert Smith
• 50 Years Ago: Working-Class Wives
• Between the Lines: Increasing Misery
• Who Wrote The Bible?
• Short story: Planning – a cautionary tale
• Remove the barrier of profit
• Sting in the Tail: Empty Talk
• Book Review: Hatta Shuzo and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan
• After Bulger

 

No. 1074 February 1994*

• Editorial: Back to what basics?
• Book review: Necessary Illusions (Chomsky)
• 50 Years Ago: Soviet Millionaires
• Between the Lines: A Question of Thought
• Letters: After Bulger
• Is this the end of Socialism?
• Party News: Go for a million
• Seriously pretending
• Obituary: John Robertson
• Sting in the Tail: Fine in Theory
• Work – as in holic
• Book Reviews: ‘Why You Should Join the Socialists’, & ‘Carry on Recruiting!’
• Blobby Culture
• Class War in Mexico

 

No. 1075 March 1994*

• Editorial: What’s it all been about?
• Book Review: Scotland Yard
• Obituary: Ken Leggett
• Profits before homes
• 50 Years Ago: Fabian Fallacies
• Letters: “New World Disorder”
• Book Review: Raging Hormones
• Poland — the old crowd returns
• G.A.T.T: Free Trade — or Protectionism?
• Sting in the Tail: Tory morality
• Between the Lines: ‘Neil Kinnock and Tomorrow’s ‘Socialism”
• The Death of Marxism?
• Herland
• Wage Slavery

 

No. 1076 April 1994

• Editorial: The Future for South Africa
• Short Story: Mr Potty gets a nice surprise
• Who will be the winners in South Africa?
• Obituary: William Isherwood
• Book Review: For Richer, For Poorer . . .
• Letter to a charity
• Obituary: Bill Kerr
• Single Mothers and Absent Fathers
• Letter: Do We Need the Market?

 

No. 1077 May 1994

• Join – don’t just applaud us!
• The TV Boss Takes Power
• The Nature of Work
• Under Socialism
• Book Review: ‘Against the Market – Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique’
• Europe – or the World?
• From Methodism to Marxism
• The Dispossessed

 

No. 1078 June 1994

• Editorial: The future — we owe them one
• What does progress mean?
• My Country
• Seven steps to becoming a Socialist
• Between the Lines: chasing the dragon
• Socialists against racism!
• Myths of race and nation: the case for world socialism – Part 1
• Myths of race and nation: the case for world socialism – Part 2
• Sting in the Tail
• Why the Greens are Wrong

 

No. 1079 July 1994

• Editorial: Lest we forget . . .
• Short Story: Earth
• Letter: Does Everywhere Have To Pass Through Capitalism?
• Changing history
• Between the Lines: Fine Cut; Life Can Be Wonderful
• Letter: Herland
• Don’t Take Me To Your Leader
• Building a future

 

No. 1080 August 1994

• Editorial: Labourism – the End of the Road
• Big Sister is watching you — official
• Sting in the Tail: Time to think
• Between the Lines: A Room with a View
• Reformism: the road to nowhere
• The Peterloo Massacre
• Is the World Slump Over Yet?

 

No. 1081 September 1994

• Editorial: Are we all “middle class” now?
• The British National Party: the symptom not the disease
• Obituary: Jimmy Doherty
• Racism – the myths that kill
• Book Review: ‘Women & Socialism’
• Book Review: ‘Ecology, Policy and Politics – Human Well-Being and the Natural World’

 

No. 1082 October 1994*

• Editorial: End of the long war
• Capitalism – Driving Us To Destruction
• Obituary: Solomon Goldstein
• Book Review: The Tiny
• Trots
• Enclosure
• The Masquerade and the Reality
• What we said at the start . . .
• Prelude to Terror
• Obituary: Tom Simpson
• TV review: Nick, Nick — Sue, Sue
• 50 Years Ago: The Weakness of the Trotskyists
• Letter: In Search of Nebulous Reforms
• Highway-One Revisited
• Battering down all Chinese Walls
• Pity the Continent
• Sting in the Tail: Madness in the Air
• In the Shadow of Mickey Mouse & Clinton
• A Question of Class
• Book Review: ‘The Preconditions of Socialism’
• World Without Money…

 

No. 1083 November 1994

• Editorial: Things Could Be Different
• Getting a fair share Chinese style
• Obituary: Charles Sundberg
• Boom Without Bust: John Major dreams again
• The Kurdish Question
• The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
• Book Review: ‘Gerry Healy – A Revolutionary Life’
• Labour, Tory … Same Old Story
• The Rise and Fall of Clause Four

 

No. 1084 December 1994*

• Editorial: The Criminal Justice Bill
• The Ragged Trousered Reactionary
• The Myth of Swedish Socialism
• Abolition of the Wages . . . for Housework Campaign
• Book Review: Taking up William Morris
• Keynes can’t help
• Letter: What a Consolation!
• Poem: Flowers
• The Cruel Edges of Capitalism
• Short Story: The Shop
• Special Offer
• 50 Years Ago: The Future of China
• From Capitalism to Socialism
• Ireland — they died for nothing
• Sting in the Tail: Having Their Cake
• Book Review: ‘Survival of the Weakest’
• LETS Abolish Money?

 

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1995

 

No. 1085 January 1995*

• Editorial: Rats, Hypocrites and Bastards
• Theatre Review: Blue Pencilled People
• ID Cards and Social Control
• Guinea Pigs and Mind Games
• Arming the world for profit
• 50 Years Ago: Tory-Labour agreement on capitalism
• Poem: Have a Mice Day
• Poem: Metamorphosis
• Party News: The Socialist Standard Readers’ Survey
• TV Review: The Punch & Judy Show
• Letters: Socialism and Communism
• A Day in School
• Sting in the Tail: Tory duplicity
• Let’s All Boldly Go!
• Book Review: ‘The Seeds of Evil – Lenin & the Origins of Bolshevik Elitism’
• Marx Against the State
• The Criminal Justice Act: The Icing on the Cake
• Book Review: ‘Green History – A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy and Politics’
• Book Review: ‘The Enemy Within – MI5, Maxwell and the Scargill Affair’
• Whatever Happened To . . . The Socialist Workers’ Republic?
• And Fromm Where …
• To Have or To Be

 

No. 1086 February 1995

• Editorial: Where should socialists go now?
• Some Cash Points
• Party News: On our wavelength
• It’s a bloody lottery!
• CD Rom Review: The World in your hand
• TV Review: The Sunny Side of the Street
• Hot War in the Caucasus
• The Persecution of Taslima Nasrin
• Book Reviews: ‘Marx’s Theory of Crisis’, & ‘What About The Workers?’

 

No. 1087 March 1995

• Editorial: Short cuts or dead ends?
• Book Review: Prejudice in the name of socialist thought
• Letters: Ignoring MOVE
• The Full Fruits of their Industry
• Common
• Ownership — the Party hasn’t begun
• Pamphlet Review: Dispensing with politicians
• TV Review: Change the Record
• A Word in Your Ear: Ich Bin Ein Scheissburger
• 50 Years Ago: Looking Back and Looking Forward
• Letter: ‘A Nail in the Coffin’
• The Poverty of Popper
• Who Needs Money?
• Theatre Review: ‘Beautiful Thing’ by Jonathan Harvey

 

No. 1088 April 1995

• Editorial: A Common World
• Book Review: Leading up the wrong path
• Capitalism down under
• Book Review: ‘Lenin Life and Legacy’
• Theatre Review: ‘Easter’
• Book Review: ‘Strike Back’
• Book Review: ‘Radical Aristocrats – London Busworkers from the 1880s to the 1980s’
• Do Animals Have Rights?

 

No. 1089 May 1995

• Editorial: What Socialism Means
• Letters: Let them eat meat
• Book Review: The Party was for turning
• Party News: Three Days in Calcutta
• Theatre Review: ‘The Knocky’
• Sting in the Tail
• Book Review: ‘Labour’s Utopias – Bolshevism, Fabianism, Social Democracy’
• Book Review: ‘Dialectical Investigations’
• The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience

 

No. 1090 June 1995

• Editorial: A Touch of Class
• The Three Pillars of Marxism
• The new US bogeyman
• Theatre Review: Mistaking Your Wife for a Hat
• Theatre Review: Leave Taking
• Internet: Forum or Marketplace?
• Book Review: Most Attractive Utopia in English
• Pamphlet Review: Socialism in India
• CD Review: Brainless Barkings of Goons
• Levellers or Diggers?
• Rochdale election results

 

No. 1091 July 1995

• Editorial: Another Stretch of Hard Labour?
• The rich get richer
• Australia’s Secret War
• Short Story: The Madhouse
• Pamphlet review: Anarchism and the failure of direct action
• Book Review: ‘The History of the Social Democratic Federation’
• Party News: University Challenge
• Party News: Socialism versus Islam
• Obituary: Leo McDonald

 

No. 1092 August 1995

• Editorial: The Destroyer of Worlds
• Life on the Dole
• Obituary: Merwin Orner
• What a Spectacle
• An Irish Holocaust
• Frederick Engels: A Lifetime’s Service
• Noam Chomsky: Rights and Lefties
• Obituary: Edgar Hardcastle

 

No. 1093 September 1995

• Editorial: Socialism or Nationalism
• Class Struggle in Poland
• Book Review: No happy ending here
• Pamphlet Review: Inside of class relationships
• Pamphlet Review: Greens Should be Socialists
• TV Review: Fighting a Losing Battle
• Prozac Logic
• Film Review: ‘Judge Dredd’
• Film Review: ‘Land and Freedom’ – The Spanish Civil War Revisited

 

No. 1094 October 1995

• Editorial: It Could Be You
• Socialism or Managing the Peace?
• What Future for Iraq?
• Wanted: Volunteers for Socialism
• Theatre Review: ‘Volpone’
• Theatre Review: ‘The Machine Wreckers’
• Mr Angry Goes to Town…

 

No. 1095 November 1995

• Editorial: Which Way to a Better Life?
• Theatre review: Kissing, Embracing and Caressing
• Book Review: Withdrawing willing co-operation
• Short Story: A Real Gentleman
• The Same Conclusions
• Book Review: ‘Slaughterhouse – Bosnia and the Failure of the West’
• Is David Icke Serious?
• In Defence of Capitalism

 

No. 1096 December 1995

• Editorial: Ninety-Nine Percent of Politics is Crap!
• An Open Letter to Arthur Scargill
• Workers have no country
• Book Review: Circuses as well as bread
• Capitalism… The Sick Society
• Obituary: Phil Rabin
• Debate With A.W.L. – Socialism or Trotskyism?

 

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1996

 

No. 1097 January 1996*

• Editorial: Class Struggle Back on the Agenda
• At the mercy of global capitalism
• Now here isn’t the news . . .
• 50 Years Ago: The Nationalisation of Mining Royalties
• Pamphlet Review: Not a Private Matter
• Theatre Review: The Material and the Tangible
• Greasy Pole: No More Mister Nice Guy
• Robert Owen turns in his grave
• Sting in the Tail: Missing the point
• Power & Principle
• Party News: Global Capitalism – The Facts
• TV Review: Right Royal Rubbish!
• Scavenger: These Foolish Things: Work Till You Drop
• Letters: Is “god” a Socialist?
• A Word In Your Ear: ‘They Say, We Say’
• Ecology and Socialism
• The Great Minimum Wage Debate
• Book Review: ‘Grey Granite’
• Where Charity Begins & Why it Should End

 

No. 1098 February 1996*

• Editorial: It’s a Good Idea, But What Now?
• What makes a socialist?
• Book Review: No wonder they hate him!
• Pamphlet Review: Indefatigable socialist
• Why not the West End?
• Familiar murmurings from Turkey
• Book Review: Crooked in every direction
• Obituary: Johnny Edmonds
• A Word in Your Ear: What do you do with an unemployed devil?
• TV Review: Hands up for the Enterprise Culture
• Book Review: Elementary Union Rights
• 50 Years Ago: Labour Foreign Minister Bevin and his Predecessors
• Trade Unions and the Labour Party
• Sting in the Tail: The C of E and reality
• The Poisonous Press
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things: One World
• Letters: It is money that impedes everything
• The Greasy Pole: Naming the Day
• Global Capitalism – The Facts
• Ecology and Science
• The Strike
• Obituary: Harry Young

 

No. 1099 March 1996*

• Editorial: Demanding the Impossible
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things: Who will be next?
• A Word in Your Ear: Mustn’t Grumble
• Letters: Religion, Atheism and Materialism
• TV Review: A brilliant careerist
• Book Review: A valueless contribution
• Book Review: Brutal and violent means
• “Security” and the terror in South-East Asia
• Reading The Economist
• The Greasy Pole: The Rate for the Job
• 50 Years Ago: Is This What Labour Voters Wanted?
• Obituary: Albert Grayson
• The Case Against the Profit System
• Countdown to Murder
• China – Mouthing it again
• Problem Solved?
• The Making of History
• Sting in the Tail: Life Wish
• Book Review: ‘I Couldn’t Paint Golden Angels’
• Correction

 

No. 1100 April 1996

• Editorial: Do They Take Us For Fools?
• Book Review: Er . . . come again Jessica
• Party News: News from India
• Book Review: ‘Yugoslavia Dismembered’
• Is a Third World War Inevitable?
• Film Review: ‘Trainspotting’
• How to Tell a Real Socialist

 

No. 1101 May 1996

• Editorial: Beyond Cynicism
• Obituary: Georges Valentino
• Unrest in Bahrain
• Theatre Review: ‘Skylight’ by David Hare
• Book Reviews: ‘On Killing’, & ‘The USSR – The Velvet Counter-Revolution’
• The Scargill Labour Party

 

No. 1102 June 1996

• Editorial: Some Democracy
• Theatre Review: Taking care of number one
• Obituary: James McMillan
• Book Review: ‘Primary Colors – A Novel of Politics’
• Socialism, Saints and Muffin the Mule
• Stepping Stones to Nowhere
• Maximilien Rubel: Anti-Bolshevik Marxist

 

No. 1103 July 1996

• Editorial: What Makes You Angry?
• Book Review: Getting means to survive
• Book Review: Trotskyism in Poland
• Theatre Review: ‘Twelve Angry Men’
• Book Review: ‘What Is Situationism?’
• Book Review: ‘The New Untouchables – Immigration and the New World Worker’
• Getting the Means to Survive

 

No. 1104 August 1996*

• Editorial: One People, Many Cultures
• Capitalism is Obsolete
• Turgid post-modernist analysis
• TV Review: A Bit of Argy-Bargy
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things: Capital corrupts democracy
• Down Mexico Way
• Pol Pot and his friends from the West
• The Greasy Pole: New word, old trick
• A lot of people should know that
• 50 Years Ago: Palestine, the Arabs and the Zionists
• Goodbye to the “Middle Class”
• Sting in the Tail: Nothing to brag about
• Theatre Review: ‘John Gabriel Borkman’
• Letters (on Anarchism)
• One World Administration
• Dogs, Cats & Wage Slaves
• Book Review: A Norwegian sense of humour?
• Book Review: Left-Wing Democracy in the English Civil War (Petegorsky)

 

No. 1105 September 1996

• Editorial: Their Politics and Ours
• Book Review: The demands of global capitalism
• Theatre Review: An unreal world
• Party News: Visit from India
• TV Review: A Striking Example of Mutiny
• Book Review: ‘The Impossibilists – Selections from the Press of The Socialist Party of Canada and One Big Union, 1906-38’
• Book Review: ‘We Can Change the World – the Real Meaning of Everyday Life’

 

No. 1106 October 1996

• Editorial: Punishing the unemployed
• Pamphlet Review: Secret history of secrecy
• Theatre Review: ‘Blinded By The Sun’
• Class, Micropolitics & Solidarity
• Obituaries: Campbell McEwen and Harry Walters
• Why is Iraq Singled Out?
• Book Review: ‘William Morris – Journalism, Contributions to Commonweal 1885-1890’
• William Morris: Pioneer Socialist

 

No. 1107 November 1996

• Editorial: Labour, socialism and the unions
• Hedgehogs for Blair
• Theatre review: Papering over the cracks
• Book Review: Inconsistencies of anarchism
• Book Review: ‘SCUM Manifesto’
• Living in the Real World
• Book Review: ‘William Morris on History’
• Free Trade, Profits and the Environment
• Capitalism’s Democratic Dictatorship

 

No. 1108 December 1996*

• Sting in the Tail: Working Lunch
• A Vision for Our Time
• Was Labour ever Socialist?
• The Greasy Pole: The Moral Factor?
• 50 Years Ago: The Slippery Slopes of Labourism
• Who’ll mourn the Emperor?
• Whiff of Gold
• Which Way To Organise?
• Choosing which evil?
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things: Progress
• A Word in Your Ear: Miracle in Mornington Crescent
• Letters: Just dealing with one of the effects
• Theatre Review: Merciless capitalist class
• TV Review: Fight War Not Wars
• Film Review: Michael Collins
• Book Review: ‘The Economics of the Madhouse’
• Book Reviews: ‘Workers Against Lenin’
• Public debate: Some states good; some states bad
• New Zealand elections

 

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1997

 

No. 1109 January 1997*

• Editorial: The same difference
• Socialism and Politics
• A Word in Your Ear: Spiv Culture
• From ‘Third World’ to One World
• Book Review: Intoxicating spirit
• It Could Be You!
• 50 Years Ago: The Nationalisation of the Railways
• The Greasy Pole: The Year of the Idea?
• Party News: Research Department
• Party News: Socialist Party to stand five candidates
• TV Review: Clueless and Classless
• Food for thought in Rome
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things . . . Harvest
• Letters: Roll Call of Defeats not Victories
• Sting in the Tail: Class Contempt
• Book Review: ‘To Remember Spain – The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936’
• Theatre Review: ‘Death of a Salesman’
• The Bailiffs
• The Kurdish Question

 

No. 1110 February 1997*

• Editorial: Zero tolerance
• Why Capitalism is Decadent
• The Last Word: Trained to kill
• Book Review: No real understanding of Socialism
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things . . .
• At the crossroads
• The Greasy Pole: Beggars are not choosers
• The Profit System and the Alternative
• 50 Years Ago: Labour Government, Strikes and Arbitration
• Theatre Review: Sophisticated critical perspectives
• TV Review: Mass debating with barmy Bernie
• Letters: Many tragic aspects of SLP history
• Obituary: Bill Williams
• Militant Dishonesty
• Book Review: ‘Promising the Earth’
• Fighting the Tiger

 

No. 1111 March 1997*

• Editorial: The Ultimate Migrants
• Major is Right!
• Handing back the booty
• Book Review: Nothing new here
• Wring their necks
• An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Voting
• How Socialists View Things
• 50 Years Ago: The Changing Temper of the Workers
• The Greasy Pole: Getting Tougher
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things: Love Me, Do
• Letter: ‘Opportunity . . . for rich pickings’
• Pamphlet Review: The Strange Death of European Social Democracy
• The Last Word: The Madness of King George (and the rest!)
• A World of Waste, War and Want
• Theatre Review: ‘The Homecoming’
• Book Review: ‘Green Backlash’
• Book Review: ‘The Long Johns’
• A Trotskyist Sect By Any Other Name

 

No. 1112 April 1997*

• Editorial: The choice is yours
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things . . . .
• TV Review: A Partly Satirical Broadcast
• The Last Word: A tale with two characters and two endings
• The Greasy Pole: A Gruesome Business
• Socialist Party Election Statement
• Party News: Activity and news from the constituencies
• Letters: Clique of Political Gangsters
• Anyone for more of the same?
• Book Review: ‘September Commando – Gestures of Futility and Frustration’
• Book Review: ‘Beyond Resistance – A Revolutionary Manifesto for the Millennium by the Anarchist Communist Federation’
• Things Fall Apart
• Don’t Mourn Deng Xiaoping
• Theatre Reviews: ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)’, & ‘A Light Shining in Buckinghamshire’

 

No. 1113 May 1997*

• Editorial: More of the same
• Is there a threat of fascism?
• The Last Word: And so to bed
• The Greasy Pole: So that’s it then
• TV Review: Spot the balls
• 50 Years Ago: Mirthless May Day – The Workers and Their Future
• Letters: Is socialism against human nature?
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things: All capitalists now?
• Irish neutrality — a scrap of paper
• In the name of profit
• Book Review: ‘Ethnicity and Power in the Contemporary World’
• Book Review: ‘Class and Class Conflict in Australia’
• Theatre Reviews: ‘East Is East’ and ‘Roots’
• My Father
• Why Society is Falling Apart
• George Orwell, Spain and Anti-fascism
• Party News: Socialist Election Results

 

No. 1114 June 1997

• Editorial: Labour’s Honeymoon Won’t Last
• Book Review: Labour’s sorry story
• Asking the right questions
• TV Review: Is Laughter All You Need?
• Beyond the Profit System
• Letter: Distortion
• Theatre Review: ‘Tom and Clem’

 

No 1115 July 1997

• The B team takes over
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things . . .
• Lady Thatcher’s Shadow
• Obituary: Mike Bathurst
• The Last Word: Moving statues
• TV Review: The Negative Midas Touch
• Pamphlet Review: ‘The Market System Must Go!’
• Theatre Review: ‘Closer’
• Film Review: ‘Star Trek – First Contact’
• Book Review: ‘Stilled Tongues – from Soapbox to Soundbite’

 

No. 1116 August 1997*

• Editorial: The Myth of ‘The Nation’
• The Last Word: The right to eat landowners
• Losing the jewel
• Theatre View: Love Doesn’t Conquer All
• No such thing as a free bus?
• 50 Years Ago: Why Can’t We All Get Together
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things: New Colonialism
• Greasy Pole: Video Nasty
• Letters: Back to the land?
• TV Review: Passage to Poverty
• Earth Summit II—Another UN Failure
• Book Review: The Money Barrier
• Book Review: Shame about the words
• Book Review: Marxist Guide
• Development: the shattered illusion
• A Glastonbury Tale
• Have Labour Power, Will Travel

 

No. 1117 September 1997*

• Editorial: Capitalism Means Conflict
• Short Story: My Mother
• Theatre Review: Why no cinema?
• Party News: Tolpuddle Rally 1997
• Letters to the Editors: Democracy or nationalism?
• The Irish scene changes
• 50 Years Ago: The Crisis – The Planners’ Swansong
• The Greasy Pole: Paying For It
• Pamphlet Review: Authoritarian
• TV Review: A Vivid Imagined Nation
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things . . . : Big Bucks
• Advertising and Art
• Commonwealth — What’s in a Name?
• The Last Word: The Undeserving
• Book Review: The Seizure of State Power
• Obituary: Jack Apling
• The Myth of Maastricht
• End Wages
• The Referendum – Where We Stand

 

No. 1118 October 1997*

• Editorial: No Solution in Devolution
• The Work Test
• TV Review: Another Victim of Capitalism
• “Democracy” comes to Liberia
• What Socialists Want
• Fifty years of “independence” [India]
• Fifty years of loot, plunder and intrigues [Pakistan]
• Power, corruption and pies
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things: Criminals
• The Greasy Pole: Now where were we?
• Book Review: Dirty Tricks Department
• The Last Word: No need for cops and robbers
• 50 Years Ago: A Letter To An Irish Worker
• Letters to the Editors: Gradualism or Revolution?
• Another Victim of Capitalism
• Obituary: Peter Furey (1913-1997)
• Book Review: ‘Children of the Revolution: Communist Childhood in Cold War Britain’
• Misplaced Admiration
• Class War No More?

 

No 1119 November 1997*

• Editorial: Do They Take Us For Fools?
• The Greasy Pole: In the chair
• Pamphlet Review: Socialist visionary
• TV Review: The Green Fascists
• Letters to the Editors: Money must go
• 50 Years Ago: From Comintern To Cominform
• Book Review: Green backwoodsman
• Party News: New Branch
• The Scavenger: These Foolish Things: Capitalism divides
• Obituary: Phil Mellor
• Why I am a Socialist
• Theatre Review: ‘Chips With Everything’
• What Socialism Is
• Russia Was Never Socialist – and Why
• Book Review: ‘To End Poverty – The Starvation of the Periphery by the Core’
• They Shoot Cowards, Don’t They?
• Wild Guess Chase

 

No. 1120 December 1997*

• Editorial: A Eurogamble for the casino economy
• The power of unreason
• Book Review: English republic
• The Greasy Pole: Labour’s Traumatic Victory
• More promises in Washington
• Same the world over
• Fall and Rise
• How Exploitation Works
• The Scavenger : These Foolish Things . . . .
• Letters to the Editors: Socialist theatre criticism
• TV Review: Away from it all
• 50 Years Ago: Post-War Fascism
• Book Review: ‘British Trade Unions 1945-1995’
• Obituary: ‘Andrew Thomson’
• The Last Word: Why Santa Should Get Stuffed
• Theatre Review: ‘An Enemy of the People’
• Book Review: ‘A Ballad Against Work’
• Madness – A Short Story
• The Communications Counter-Revolution

 

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1998

 

No 1121 January 1998

• Editorial
• Voice From the Back
• TV Review
• Book Reviews: ‘The British Communist Movement and Moscow’, ‘Chinese Provinces in Reform’, & ‘The Royals’
• Letters
• Africa and the reality of capitalism
• Marxism
• Rise and Fall
• “Their Country Needs You”
• That Sinking Feeling
• The New Yorker discovers Marx
• Party News

 

No. 1122 February 1998

• Editorial: Welfare cuts – the government’s austerity programme
• Obituary: Alf Atkinson
• Voice From the Back
• TV Review
• Book Reviews: ‘Friends of Durruti Group – 1937-1939’
• Letters
• Crack Down On Robbery – Abolish The Wages System
• World View: Europe’s industrial reserve army
• Stir Crazy
• Marx’s Basic Theory
• Party News
• 150 Years of The Communist Manifesto

 

No. 1123 March 1998

• Editorial: Russia and the US Face Up Once Again
• Gulf Hypocrisy
• Voice From the Back
• TV Review
• Theatre Review: ‘Junk’
• Book Reviews: ‘Marx’, ‘The State to Come’, & ‘New Interventions’
• Letters
• The Car
• Goodbye to the Welfare State . . . as we know it
• The Curse of Money
• Prepare to meet thy dome
• Edinburgh branch

 

No. 1124 April 1998*

• Editorial: The London Referendum
• Crisis in Indonesia
• Voice From the Back
• Greasy Pole: Who said it first?
• The museum piece
• TV Review
• Theatre Review
• Book Reviews: ‘Reflections on Marx’s Critique of Political Economy’, & ‘The Stone Canal’
• Letters
• World View
• 50 Years Ago: The Budget
• Artificial Scarcity
• The Class Struggle on board the ‘Titanic’
• Never a follower be
• Party News

 

No. 1125 May 1998*

• Editorial: Neutered tigers
• World View: Lenin, Theorist of Nationalism
• Voice From the Back
• TV Review
• Theatre Review
• Whitlow & Boyle (Engineers)
• Technology for People, not Profit
• What Socialism Means
• The irrational in anarchism
• Book Reviews: ‘The British General Election of 1997’, ‘The Future Socialist Society’, & ‘Historical Dictionary of Socialism’
• Letters
• World View: Hungry for Change
• 50 Years Ago: The “Daily Worker” is disappointed with Indian Capitalism
• Why not socialism now?
• Dirty work in the Indian Ocean
• Northern Ireland: Is it Peace?
• Party News [Joan Lestor]

 

No. 1126 June 1998*

• Editorial: Look to the Future
• Voice From the Back
• Party News
• Obituary: Sid Woodhall
• Letters
• Book Reviews: ‘The Doctrine of DNA’, & ‘The Spanish Anarchists – The Heroic years 1868-1936’
• TV Review
• Wages and exploitation
• Ageism
• Greasy Pole: Tories lying low?
• World View: The Curse of Xawara, & New Itinerary for Africa
• The Moral Craze
• From work to welfare and back
• 50 Years Ago: Palestine and its Problems
• Paper Money, Paper Tigers
• Party News: Appeal for funds for India

 

No. 1127 July 1998*

• Editorial: Ireland–is it all over?
• Voice From the Back
• Obituary: Ernie Higdon
• Socialism would solve global hunger
• Book Reviews: ‘What’s Left?’, ‘Prawn Cocktail Party’, ‘The May Day Manifesto’, & ‘How Solidarity Can Change the World’
• People
• Letters
• World View: Out of Africa?
• 50 Years Ago: The Great Radio Drive
• History as mystery
• Why the Daily Mail Hates Karl Marx
• Nuclear spectre
• Pakistan’s finest hour?
• Theatre Review: Flight
• TV Review: When the “Lions” Roar
• Correction

 

No. 1128 August 1998*

• Editorial: Nation or class?
• Voice From the Back
• What Socialism means
• This (Capitalist) Sporting Life
• Theatre Review
• Book Reviews: ‘Killing Hope’, & ‘Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium’
• Letters
• Greasy Pole: False identities
• The Tree
• Chomsky’s weakness
• World View
• Minor distractions on the Road to Freedom
• 50 Years Ago: Mr. Aneurin Bevan on Tory vermin
• What happened in history
• The anti-imperialist delusion
• Instruction, instruction, instruction

 

No. 1129 September 1998*

• Editorial: Which way is the “Third Way”?
• Book Reviews: ‘Chechnya: A Small Victorious War’ & ‘Capitalism and Class Struggle in the USSR’
• Voice From the Back
• Letters
• Theatre Review
• TV Review
• Greasy Pole:
• Truth
• Goodbye Goldwater s.o.b.
• Digging up the dead
• Questions Answered – and Asked
• Not Worth the Paper
• World View. Courting trouble
• World View. Seychelles: the strategic stakes
• Party News
• 50 Years Ago: Roundabouts

 

No. 1130 October 1998*

• Editorial: Will America be next?
• Boom goes bust in Asia
• Voice From the Back
• U.S.A. Bogeyman or diversion?
• Venezuela: The World Crisis spreads
• Paying the Piper
• The politics of joining
• Capitalism or Socialism?
• Greasy Pole: Sex, lies and leadership
• Letters
• Book Reviews: ‘The Compassionate Revolution’, ‘Economic Cycles’, ‘Autonarchy’ & ‘The Algebra of Revolution’
• Theatre Review
• TV Review: On the Box
• Film Review: Saving Private Ryan
• 50 Years Ago: The taming of the TUC

   

  No. 1131 November 1998*

  • Enter the Clowns – Stage Left
  • Voice From the Back
  • In a nutshell
  • Theatre Review
  • Book Reviews: ‘The World Within War’, ‘The French Revolution’, ‘Mother Courage’ & ‘Socialism and Religion’
  • The Worker’s Mirage
  • Won’t – or can’t?
  • Letters
  • Mad Tories and Englishmen
  • World View
  • Pioneers of socialism
  • Germany, November 1918
  • The Truman Show
  • TV Review: In Rude Health?
  • “Things can only get better”
  • 50 Years Ago: From an opponent . . .

   

  No. 1132 December 1998*

  • Towards Post-Industrial Capitalism?
  • Editorial: What really happened on Clapham Common
  • Free work versus forced employment
  • The struggle for democracy
  • Capitalism: an unnatural disaster
  • Pinochet and socialism
  • The Greasy Pole: Gays and capitalism
  • Local Dignitaries
  • The Voice from the Back
  • Letters: Was Che a Socialist?
  • The Gospel According to St Tony
  • Theatre review: An Experiment with an Air Pump
  • Book Reviews: ‘1968 Marching in the Streets’ & ‘James Connolly – The Lost Writings’
  • Party News
  • 50 Years Ago: Austerity for how long, Sir Stafford?

   

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  1999

   

  No. 1133 January 1999*

  • Editorial: The side show
  • Voice from the Back
  • 50 Years Ago: A Letter from Ireland
  • Corrections
  • Ethics,
  • TV Review: Bring Back The Test Card
  • Theatre: The Transcendental Power of Drama
  • Book Reviews
  • A reply to CND
  • Getting better
  • World View: * Going for Oil * Contradictions in Euroland
  • Working to live or living to work?
  • Beggar’s belief
  • Climate change – Capitalism can’t cope
  • Letters
  • Election result

   

  No. 1134 February 1999*

  • Editorial: The cracks start to show
  • Voice from the Back
  • Greasy Pole: Variable standards
  • 50 Years Ago: Busman’s Half-Holiday
  • The World Socialist Movement
  • TV Review: Putting on the glitz
  • Theatre Review: Mr Puntila and His Man Matti
  • Book Review: ‘The Real Rights of Man – Political Economies for the Working Class, 1775-1850’
  • Careers
  • Chattel and wage slavery
  • World View: ‘USA: The Fallacy of the Free Market’ and ‘Middle East: Thirsting for Conflict’
  • Banana war?
  • Why reform a rotten system?
  • Utopian socialism
  • In These We Trust?
  • Letters

   

  No. 1135 March 1999*

  • Editorial: A leader gets lost
  • Voice from the Back
  • Greasy Pole: Byers Market
  • 50 Years Ago: Trade Unions and the Next Slump
  • TV Reviews: And the winner is…
  • Theatre Review: Trouble at the mill
  • Book Reviews: ‘The People of the Abyss’, ‘A Weapon in the Struggle’, & ‘Work – An Anthology’
  • Annual Conference 1999
  • World View: ‘City of Despair’, ‘American Prosperity’, ‘The Wasted Century’
  • Nothing to pay
  • What’s new about New Labour?
  • Cartoon: The wonderful world of advertising
  • Anthropology and politics
  • “All This Hard Graft No Longer Makes Sense”
  • Letters

   

  No. 1136 April 1999*

  • Editorial: Worldwide is the only way
  • Voice from the Back
  • Greasy Pole: Howard’s End?
  • 50 Years Ago: The Film Crisis
  • Theatre Review: ‘A Month in the Country’
  • Book Reviews
  • Party names and games
  • How to vote Socialist
  • Scottish Parliament Elections: Glasgow
  • Scottish Parliament Elections: Lothian
  • Elections in North East England
  • World View: ‘Whither Iraq?’ & ‘Exit Oskar the Pink’
  • Direct Action
  • A Mad Marketeer Regrets
  • A Capitalist Criticises Capitalism
  • Letters

   

  No. 1137 May 1999*

  • Editorial: The Balkan War
  • The Choice is Yours: More of the Same or an End to the Profit System?
  • Voice from the Back
  • 50 Years Ago: Mr. Attlee on Working and Shirking
  • TV Review: Anarchy for the UK?
  • Theatre Review: Broadcasting: A Counterfeit Reality
  • Book Reviews
  • Welsh Assembly
  • World View: ‘Bombing for Peace – the Real Crisis in NATO’, ‘Profit or the Environment?’
  • State and class in pre-colonial West Africa
  • Living in a Free Society – a recent experience
  • Are you an abstainer?
  • What the Papers Don’t Say (1): The Tabloids
  • Watching the war go by
  • Letters
  • Elections in North East England

   

  No. 1138 June 1999*

  • Editorial: The Balkan war (continued)
  • Voice from the Back
  • Greasy Pole: Waiting for Poverty
  • TV Review: All Our Yesterdays
  • Socialist activity in Gambia
  • Theatre Review
  • Book Reviews
  • Euro-elections
  • Socialist activity in Gambia
  • Creative employment?
  • Profitably Modified Food
  • The capitalist state
  • What the Papers Don’t Say (2): The Broadsheets
  • Is the Pound worth saving?
  • Letters
  • 50 Years Ago: Cripps On Crises

   

  No. 1139 July 1999*

  • Editorial: Voting and democracy
  • Voice from the Back
  • Greasy Pole: Keeping Their Hair On
  • Obituary: Jimmy Robertson
  • 50 Years Ago: The Nemesis of Labour Government
  • TV Review: Our Masters’ Voice
  • Theatre Review: Foolish Totem of a Hapless World
  • Book Reviews
  • Election Results
  • Ordinary people
  • World View: *Capitalist priorities*Educating the workers?
  • Mary Gray and Eleanor Marx
  • Socialism has never been tried
  • The Warmakers
  • Letters

   

  No. 1140 August 1999*

  • Editorial: The battle of ideas
  • Voice from the Back
  • Greasy Pole: Who needs a willie?
  • 50 Years Ago: The Dispute At The London Docks
  • TV Review
  • Theatre Review
  • Book Review: Does race exist
  • World View:*Who owns the world?* The triumph of hope over experience
  • Ghana: The Ruling Class and the State
  • Devolution makes no difference
  • Transplant organs for sale?
  • Letters
  • No such thing as a free lunch?
  • Party News: Euro-election results

   

  No. 1141 September 1999*

  • Editorial: Headlines
  • Voice from the Back
  • Greasy Pole: Prescott on class
  • Obituary: Patrick Maratty
  • 50 Years Ago: Another Fake Goes West
  • Party Activity During the summer months
  • TV Review :Caught in the deep
  • Theatre Review: Lost Musicals and “Get Lost” Musicals
  • Book Reviews: ‘The Plague Makers’, ‘What Was Fascism?’, & ‘Social Protest Literature – An Encyclopaedia’
  • Alcoholics Anonymous
  • World view: * Venezuela:Rooting out corruption?* Population: Feeding the Six Billionth
  • War and capitalism in Africa
  • Scargillism or socialism?
  • All industrial unionists now?

   

  No. 1142 October 1999*

  • Editorial: The Cult of Leadership
  • Voice from the Back
  • Greasy Pole: Alan Clarke – gladly missed
  • 50 Years Ago: A Labour Prophet has a Fall
  • TV Review: Darling and His Great Democratic Deficit
  • Theatre Review: A Question of Class Identity
  • Book Reviews
  • Neighbours
  • World View: *USA:To Whom It May Concern*Africa: Who gains from female circumcision?
  • Why we need global change
  • The Poverty of the Greens
  • The Trouble With Culture
  • Letters

   

  No. 1143 November 1999*

  • Editorial: The class war is not over
  • Voice from the Back
  • Greasy Pole: Tories In Trouble
  • 50 Years Ago: The Devaluation of the Labour Party
  • TV Review: It’s bitter out
  • Theatre Review: The hell that is poverty
  • Book Review: ‘Sylvia Pankhurst – A Life in Radical Politics’
  • Sylvia Pankhurst on Future Society
  • World View:*There’s no such thing as an ethical foreign policy* Chechen war (Part II)
  • A land fit for heroes-1999
  • Overlords and Underlings
  • Food: why we don’t get the best
  • The great GM food scare
  • “Everybody did what they could”
  • Letters: Two leaflets

   

  No 1144 December 1999*

  • Editorial: A century passes
  • Voice From The Back
  • Greasy Pole: Red benches and Red Ken
  • 50 Years Ago: Bigger Armaments Under Labour Government
  • TV Review: The digital watch
  • Theatre Review: Inadequate and incomplete
  • Book Reviews
  • Uncles
  • Remember Bhopal!
  • World View: US Senate’s Millennium Gesture, A culture of medals
  • The death of the dismal science
  • Bugged by mill-ennui – From Dark Ages to Grey Ages
  • Letters

   

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