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This issue of Soundings focuses on the current international relations crisis, and on beginning an in-depth critique of 'Blairism', particularly its ambivalent relationship to public services. There is also a special section on the left and history.
Michael Rustin discusses global democracy and the Iraq crisis; Ali Ansari writes on democratisation in Iran; Costis Hadjimichalis and Ray Hudson look at post-modern imperialism and the project of European political integration; and Laura Agustin writes on gender and migration.
Christian Wolmar surveys the wreckage caused by teh Government's transport policies; Alan Finlayson analyses New Labour's excessive use of the term modernisation; and G.C.Harcourt argues for a more co-operative approach to wages and management.
Geoff Andrew, Kevin Morgan, Ilaria Favretto, Maud Bracke, John Callaghan and Willie Thompson write on why History is important for the left.
Contents and contributors:
Global democracy and the Iraq crisis
Michael Rustin
Iran at the crossroads: Democratisation and the dialectics of the revolution
Ali Ansari
Geographical imaginations, post-modern imperialism and the project
of European political integration
Costis Hadjimichalis and Ray Hudson
The failures of privatisation
Christian Wolmar
The meaning of modernisation
Alan Finlayson
Chickens come home to roast
G.C. Harcourt
Sex, gender and migrations: facing up to ambiguous realities
Laura Agustín
Five Poems
Alice Beer, Frances Angela, Martha Kapos, Terence Dooley, Patrick Hobbs
Reviews
Chris Pawling, Jo Littler, Caroline Bainbridge, Candida Yates
Part II Who needs history?
Introduction: why the left needs history
Geoff Andrews
Rummaging in Trotsky's dustbin: Or what does the left need with
history?
Kevin Morgan
New left, new pasts?
Ilaria Favretto
What can the left learn from 1968? The Czechoslovak crisis, the left
in Western Europe, revolution and reform
Maud Bracke *
Capturing the Labour Party: a masterplan that went wrong
John Callaghan
What can we learn from history?
Willie Thompson
* Due to a software problem, the footnotes from Maud Bracke's piece in Soundings 23 were in advertantly omitted. To see the references for the article please click here.
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