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9 looks at the European left. It broadly focuses on three main themes:
migration and racism, the emergence of new forms of civil society in Eastern
Europe, and the need to rethink, at a European level, key issues such
as solidarity and welfare. It includes contribution from Sweden, Slovenia,
France, Lithuania and Hungary. In the first part of the journal there
is a critical interrogation of the concepts of the third way debate, from
Chantal Mouffe. There is also a thoroughgoing analysis of New Labour's
economic policies, pointing to the Government's continuing commitment
to many of the goals of old-style monetarism, by Philip Arestis and Malcom
Sawyer.
Contributors and Contents:
Part I
Editorial: Avoiding Disenchantment
Michael Rustin
The Radical Centre: A politics without Adversary
Chantal Mouffe
New Labour, New Monetarism
Philip Arestis and Malcom Sawyer
Future Generations: A Right Way Forward?
Mario Petrucci
Thinking with Music
Angela McRobbie
Poems: Francis Wilson, Judy Gahagan, Okello Okuli, Catherine Smith,
Carole Satyamurti
Reviews: Catherine Hall on Hugh Thomas on The Slave Trade,and on
Robin Blackburn on The Making of New World Slavery, Becky Hall and
Susanna Rustin on Toni Morrison Paradise, Harriet Atkinson
on the Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, January - April 1998, on
Art Treasures of England.
Part II: European left
New Beginnings for a European left
Martin Peterson
Slovenia: A Model Synthesis
Branca Likic-Brboric
New Social Movements in Hungary
Mate Szabo
Reconciling Past and Present in Lithuania
Leonadis Donskis
Social Exclusion and Multiple Identities
Peter Weinreich
Lettre de France
Alain Caille
Elusive Solidarity in the French Welfare State
John Crowley
Waiting for Mandela: Social Exclusion and Resistance in the 'New' Sweden
Ove Sernhede
Swedish Multicultural Society
Alexandra Alund
A View from Sweden
Martin Peterson
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