Main Newspaper Index

Encyclopedia of Trotskyism | Marxists’ Internet Archive

International Socialism

CONTENTS BY ISSUE
(January 1975 – January 1978)

No. 74, January 1975

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM

Published by International Socialism, 6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

Note to Readers

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• The State of the Economy, by Sean Treacy
• The State of Labour
• Class Struggle in Southern Africa, by Basker Vashee

London Busmen: Rise and Fall of a Rank & File Movement, by Pete Glatter

The Communist International and the United Front, by Duncan Hallas

The Broad Left in TASS, by Brian Parkin

The Theory of State Capitalism, by Peter Binns

Misplaced Hopes: People’s Democracy in the Six Counties (RA People’s Democracy by Paul Arthur), by Brian Trench

Lenin’s Central Committee (RA The Bolsheviks and the October Revolution, CC Minutes of the RSDLP (b)), by Tony Cliff

REVIEWS:

• The First International and After, by Peter Green
• Marx and Freud, by Tirril Harris
• The Lancashire and Cheshire Miners, by John Charlton
• Riot and Revolution in Singapore and Malaya, by John Newsinger
• The History of Surrealism, by Gavin McFadyen
• In Brief

No. 75, February 1975

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM

Published by International Socialism, 6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• ‘The Least Bad Government’
• What Can We Expect Now?
• The Common Market Issue
• ‘Fordisation’ at British Leyland, by Granville Williams
• More Cutbacks in Welfare, by Gordon Peters
• Six Counties on the Knife-edge, by Mike Heym

R.P. Dutt: Stalin’s British Mouthpiece, by Jim Higgins

The Student Movement Today, by Alex Callinicos & Simon Turner

The Return of Bukharin (RA Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution by Stephen F Cohen), by Peter Sedgwick

A Note of Qualification (to above), by Duncan Hallas

The Building Industry: Background to a Rank and File Movement, by Alistair Goulding

Centrist Currents (RA Socialist Register 1974), by Duncan Hallas

REVIEWS:

• The Guinea Pigs, by Eamonn McCann
• The Union Makes Us Strong, by Julian Harber
• Marxism and History, by Martin Barker
• How Allende Fell, by Ian Roxborough
• Children in English Society, by Sheila Rowbotham
• Capital City, by Sean Tracy
• Stalin, by Dave Hughes
• Socialism and the Challenge of War, by Logie Barrow
• In Brief, by Colin Barker

No. 76, March 1975

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM

Published by International Socialism, 6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

Letter to Readers, by Duncan hallas

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• One Year of the Labour Government
• The Impact of the Recession
• The Ruling Class Dilemma
• The Outlook is Stormy
• The Eastern Bloc Crisis, by Dave Hughes

The Challenge of the Rank and File, by Steve Jeffreys

History of the IS – Part 1: From Theory into Practice, by Ian H. Birchall

Crisis in the Middle East, by Phil Marfleet

Marxist Economics and the World Today (RA Capitalism and Theory by Mike Kidron), by Chris Harman

• Note of Qualification, by Chris Harman

REVIEWS:

• Flames of Freedom, by Reg Groves
• The End of the Postwar Era, by Phil Gregory
• The Contemporary Marx, by Colin Barker
• India-China, by Ian H. Birchall
• Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Chile, by Colin Sparks
• Useful Toil, by Raymond Challinor
• In Dubious Battle, by Bryan Rees
• The Chinese Road to Socialism, by Nigel Harris
• The Brazilian Communist Party, by John Newsinger

No. 77, April 1975

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM

Published by International Socialism, 6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• The Common Market
• What is the European Economic Community?
• The Background: An Outline History of Their ‘Europe’
• Guest Workers and Super-Exploitation, by John Charlton

Portugal: One Year After the Coup, by Joanna Rollo

History of the IS Part 2: Towards a Revolutionary Party, by Ian H. Birchall

The Building Industry in 1975, by Alistair Goulding

REVIEWS:

• The State: Its Origin and Function, by Raymond Challinor
• Capitalism and Material Life, by Colin Barker
• Broad and Alien is the World, by Ian H. Birchall
• Zionism: The Dream and the Reality, by Daniel Campion
• In Brief, by Colin Barker

No. 78, May 1975

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM

Published by International Socialism, 6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• The Budget and After, by Sean Treacy
• The Six County Deadlock and the Army
• Vietnam
• Portugal, by Chris Harman

China and World Revolution, by Nigel Harris

REVIEWS:

• Mayakovsky and His Circle, by Paul O’Flinn
• Lenin’s Last Struggle, by Colin Barker
• Oil: The Biggest Business, by Bryan Rees
• Marx and Engels: Early Writings, by Peter Binns
• Myths of Power, by Paul O’Flinn
• Big Business and Government, by Colin Barker
• The Second Great Crash, by Sue Clegg
• In the Eye of the Storm, by Alex Callinicos

No. 79, June 1975

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM

Published by International Socialism, 6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• The Deluge
• Towards the Orange State, by Mike Miller
• South Africa: ‘Illusions and Confusions’, by IS SA group member
• AUEW Elections, by John Deason

The Broad Left in the AUEW, by John Deason

Building the Revolutionary Party (RA Lenin Vol.2 Building the Party by Tony Cliff), by Duncan Hallas

Black Power and the ‘Third World’, by Nigel Harris

Shelley: The Trumpet of a Prophecy, by Paul Foot

Marxist Economics: the Nature of Capitalism, by John Ure

BOOK REVIEWS:

• A Seventh Man, by Colin Barker
• The Labour Party, by Raymond Challinor
• Socialism and Revolution, by Ian H. Birchall
• Tito, by Duncan MacPherson
• The Arms Trade with the Third World, by Dennis Childs
• Rural Protest, by Nigel Harris

No. 80, July/August 1975

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM

Published by International Socialism, 6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

Letter to Readers, by Duncan Hallas

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• The Crunch is Now
• News from the Nazi Front, by David Evans

Abortion: The Pioneers, by David Widgery

Spain: The Gathering Storm, by Manuel Fernandez

Pictures from Portugal, by Red Saunders

Portugal: The Views of a PRP Leader

Oil and the Crisis, by Sue Clegg

Marxist Economics: Capitalism as a System of Crisis, by John Ure

Now Let Us Praise Leon Trotsky (RA Trotsky by Joel Carmichael), by Jim Higgins

The Inheritance of Joe Stalin (RA Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates by Moshe Lewin), by Colin Barker

No. 81/82, July/August 1975

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the International Socialists

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

Portugal at the Crossroads, by Tony Cliff

Introduction Portugal at the Crossroads

Acknowledgements

Chronology of Events, by Colin Sparks

Glossary, by Colin Sparks

1. The Collapse of the Fascist Regime
2. The Masses Enter the Arena
3. The Workers Parties
4. Two Failed Right-Wing Coups
5. The Armed Forces Movement
6. The Economy in Impasse
7. The Way Ahead

‘Centrist’ organisations

Maoist organisations

No. 83, November 1975

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the International Socialists

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• Right Wing Ascendant
• The Collapse of the ‘Lefts’
• The Revolutionary Left
• The Conversion of William Craig, by Mike Miller
• Portugal: The Latest Phase, by Chris Harman

The Rank and File Movement – Yesterday and Today, by Ken Appleby

The Crisis in Italy, by Avanguadia Operaia

Southern Africa: The Next Stage, by Alec Baldwin

Angola: A New Congo? by Alex Callinicos

REVIEWS:

• Blood in My Eye, by C.R. Williams
• The Labour Movement in Europe, by Ian H. Birchall
• Ten Years After Ivan Denisovitch, by Ewa Barker
• The Rates Explosion, by Peter Martin
• Memoirs of a Revolution, by Alex Callinicos
• Proletarian Order, by Robert Lumley
• In Brief, by Colin Barker

No. 84, December 1975

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the International Socialists

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• Portugal: Reaction in the Saddle
• The AUEW Defeat and After
• Southern Africa – Détente: Time is Running Out, by John Rogers
• Egypt: The Deepening Crisis, by Phil Marfleet

A Debate: Revolutionary Politics Today, Avanguardia Operaia / International Socialists

Primitive Accumulation, by John Ure

No. 85, January 1976

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the International Socialists

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

EDITORIAL:

• Two Years of Labour

Linwood 1975: One Year in a Car Factory, by Peter Bain

On the United Front Tactic: Some Preliminary Notes, by Duncan Hallas

Two Notes on a Visit to the United States, by Nigel Harris

Portugal: The November Crisis, by Steve Jeffreys

Capitalism Since 1945, by John Ure

Flawed Heroes (RA Keir Hardie by Iain McLean & The Strange Case of Victor Grayson by Reg Groves), by Raymond Challinor

REVIEWS:

• Revolt to Revolution, by John Newsinger
• There’s Gold in Them Thar Pills, by Bryan Rees
• The Activist’s Handbook, by Richard Hyman
• The Levellers in the English Revolution, by Reg Groves
• Bestseller, by Sandy Irvine
• Socialist Theatre, by David Widgery
• Rich Against Poor, by Sue Clegg
• Minding Their Own Business, by Alex Callinicos
• Cutting the Welfare State, by Colin Barker
• Language, Truth and Politics, by Alex Callinicos
• In Brief, by Colin Barker

No. 85, February 1976 *

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the International Socialists

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• Two Years of Labour Government
• The Unions
• Economic Prospects
• Scottish Labour Party
• Spain

The Revolutionary Left in Europe, by Ian H. Birchall

Chou En-Lai, by Nigel Harris (obituary)

In Chou’ Lifetime – Some Dates, by Duncan Hallas

Southern Africa: The Great Carve-Up, by Alex Callinicos

Labour and Capital (RA Labour and Monopoly Capitalism, The Degradation of Work in the 20^th Century by Harry Braverman), by Colin Barker

BOOK REVIEWS:

• Geronimo & The People’s Land, by Bryan Rees
• The Tamarisk Tree, by David Widgery
• Six Month in Red Russia, by Sandy Irvine
• Kilroy Is Here, by Paul O’Flinn

* Wrongly numbered, in fact No.86

No. 87, March/April 1976

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the International Socialists

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• Healey’s Axe, by Jim Kincaid
• Southern Africa, by Alex Callinicos
• Powellism, Racism and the Conservative Party Today, by Wayne Asher

Scottish Daily News: End of Workers’ Co-Operative, by Mike Buckingham

Portugal: The Last Three Months, by Robin Peterson & Tony Cliff

The Middle East: An Overview, by Terry Povey

Communism and Stalinism (On John Golan’s Social Democracy: Some Problems), by Duncan Hallas

The Left in Britain (RA The Left in Britain 1956-1968 by David Widgery), by Martin Shaw

REVIEW:

• The Communist Movement from Comintern to Cominform, by Ian H. Birchall

No. 88, May 1976

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the International Socialists

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• ‘The City was Delighted’: Healey’s Budget, by Jim Kincaid
• Italy: The PDUP Congress, by Paul Ginsborg
• ‘Beat Back the Right Deviationist Attempt to Reverse Correct Verdicts’, by a Correspondent

EETPU: The Decline of the Narrow Left, by Steve Jeffreys

The Communist Party and the General Strike, by Duncan Hallas

Spain: The Prospects, by Paul Harrison & Ian H. Birchall

Argentina: The End of the Peronist Road, by John Bowman

The USSR and the Crisis, by Mike Haynes

Third Note on the USA, by Glenn Wolfe

No. 89, June 1976

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the International Socialists

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• Pay Policy and the Pound
• Labour’s No-deal for Women, by Margaret Renn
• The Italian General Election, by Bob Lumley

All Power to the Soviets (RA Lenin Vol.2 by Tony Cliff), by Duncan Hallas

The Vietnamese Road to State Capitalism, by Ian H. Birchall

Egypt’s Deepening Crisis, by Phil Marfleet

Mao and Marx (RA The Class Struggle in the USSR by Charles Bettleheim), by Nigel Harris

Wages for Housework (RA All Work and No Pay: Women, Housework and the Wages Due Edmond & Fleming (eds.)), by Irene Breugel

REVIEWS:

• The Symmetrical Family, by Graham Veitch
• Marx and Engels, by Peter Binns
• Industrial Relations, by Colin Barker
• The Dream and the Destiny, by Bryan Rees
          Note, by the Typesetter
• The Gulag Archipelago, by Bruce Young
• Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value, by Peter Binns
• Food for the Children, by Chanie Rosenberg
• Bandiet, by Bryan Rees
• Social Analysis, by Martin Shaw
• Oil, A Workers’ Guide ..., by Steve Faith
• The Novel and Revolution, by Ian H. Birchall
• Trade Union Education, by Richard Hyman
• A Day in the War, by Paul O’Flinn

No. 90, July/August 1976

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the International Socialists

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

Editorial Note

The Soweto Uprising, by Alex Callinicos

Portugal: The Significance of the Election, by Robin Peterson

• Otelo’s Election Programme

Lebanon: Another Black September? by Terry Povey

All Power to the Soviets, part 2 (RA Lenin Vol.2 by Tony Cliff), by Duncan Hallas

We Come to Bury Housework ... not to pay for it, by Judith Hamilton & Elana Dallas

Birth of the Trade Union Bureaucracy (RA The Origins of British Industrial Relations by Keith Burgess), by Richard Hyman

Assault on Marx’s Theory of Value (RA Karl Marx and the Close of His System by Bohm-Bawerk & Bohm-Bawerk’s Criticism of Marx by Rudolf Hilferding), by Alex Callinicos

REVIEWS:

• Theory of Capital Reproduction and Accumulation, by John Ure
• Marx and Modern Social Theory, by Martin Shaw
• Radical Social Work, by Ben Stuntley
• The Monument, by Jules Townshend
• Karl Marx, by Duncan Hallas
• Outcast London, by Alastair Hatchett
• Slamming the Door, by M. Paddon
• Marxists and Literature, by Dave Harker

No. 91, September 1976

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the International Socialists

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• The ‘Boom’ and the Cuts in Figures, by Jim Kincaid
• The Southall Asian Youth Movement, by John Rose
• The Italian Election, by Tim Potter

The Miners and the Labour Government, by Bill Message

Once More on Wages for Housework, by Irene Breugel

The Soviet Union – State Capitalist or Socialist? (RA The Soviet Union – State Capitalist or Socialist? by David Purdy), by Peter Binns & Duncan Hallas

Under Capricorn (RA Taming the Concrete Jungle by Pete Thomas & Black War by Clive Turnball), by David Widgery

China as a ‘Deformed Workers’ State’? (RA Party, Army and Masses in China by Livio Maitan), by Nigel Harris

REVIEWS:

• On Trotskyism, by Duncan Hallas
• In Brief, by Colin Barker

No. 92, October 1976

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the International Socialists

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Deputy Editor:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

Mao Tse-Tung and China, by Nigel Harris et al.

• Mao and the Chinese Revolution
• The Communist International and China
• The Making of Mao
• Mao Tse-Tung Thought
• Other Thoughts of Mao
• Mao and the People’s Republic
• Mao’s Life
• The Chinese Working Class in the 1920s and 1930s
• Prospects
• Sources of Mao’s Statements

Ireland: A Special Survey, by Des Derwin, John Goodwillie, Gene Kerrigan & Brian Trench

• Introduction
• The Situation Today
• The Economy in the Republic
• The Protestant Working Class
• The ITGWU
• Women’s Struggles
• The State of the Left

No. 93, November/December 1976

IINTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the International Socialists

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Editor:
DUNCAN HALLAS
Deputy Editor:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Reviews:
COLIN BARKER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• The Crunch is Now
• Spain, by Nical Marks
• Southern Africa: Kissinger’s Carve-Up, by Alex Callinicos
• Thailand: The Army Resumes Command, by Nigel Harris

One Year of the Right to Work Campaign, by John Deason

Fascism in Leicester, by Wayne Asher

Elections: A Discussion Article, by Martin Shaw

Poland: The Crisis of State Capitalism (Part 1), by Chris Harman

REVIEWS:

• Fascism, by Colin Barker
• No Shining Armour, by Bryan Rees
• The General Strike, by Raymond Challinor
• Class, Race and Gold, by Alex Callinicos

No. 94, January 1977

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the Socialist Workers Party

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Managing Editor:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Associate Editors:
DUNCAN HALLAS
STEVE JEFFRIES
COLIN SPARKS
Reviews Editor:
ALASTAIR HATCHETT

Note to Readers

Some Prospects for 1977, by Duncan Hallas

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• Whatever Happened to the Boom
• The Fall of the Shanghai Left
• Southern Africa
• Exporting the Social Contract

Fighting the Beast – Fascism: The Lessons of Cable Street, by Colin Sparks

Briefing: Equal Pay

Workers Struggles in Poland, by Edmund Baluka & Ewa Barker

Poland: The Crisis of State Capitalism (Part 2), by Chris Harman

No. 95, February 1977

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the Socialist Workers Party

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Managing Editor:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Associate Editors:
DUNCAN HALLAS
STEVE JEFFRIES
COLIN SPARKS
Reviews Editor:
ALASTAIR HATCHETT

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• Britain: The Political Crisis
• Britain: The Industrial Struggle
• The Middle East: Kissinger’s Legacy
• Southern Africa: Carter Invests in Apartheid

The Bureaucracy in the TGWU, by Colin Sparks

The CP the SWP and the Rank and File Movement, by Duncan Hallas

Briefing: How Special is the British Crisis?

Portugal at the Impasse, by Tony Cliff

One Hundred Points, by Plastic People of the Universe

REVIEWS:

• Underconsumption Theories, by Alex Callinicos
• Reflections of a Clyde-Built Man, by Peter Bain
• Black South Africa Explodes, by John Rogers
• How the Other Half Dies, by Howard Miles & Sybil Cock
• The Socialist Register 1976, by Alex Callinicos
• Abortion in Demand, by Margaret Renn
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, by Bryan Rees
• In Brief, by Alastair Hatchett

No. 96, March 1977

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the Socialist Workers Party

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Managing Editor:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Associate Editors:
DUNCAN HALLAS
STEVE JEFFRIES
COLIN SPARKS
Reviews Editor:
ALASTAIR HATCHETT

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• Tearing Up the Social Contract
• Crisis in Eastern Europe
• Ireland
• Egypt

The Participation Fraud, by Sybil Cock

Alan Fisher, NUPE and the New Reformism, by Alex Callinicos

• Election Address for NUPE Executive, by Bill Geddes

[Correpondence:]

• One Small Mistake (British Crisis), from Chris Harman
• What We Mean by Terrorism, from SWP Middle East Group
• Reply to Above

Briefing: The Profitability of British Industry

History of Immigration, by Joanna Rollo

Organising Working Women (Extract from 4th Congress Comintern), by Clara Zetkin

Women and Socialism (RA Experiences from Eastern Europe by Hilda Scott), by Lindsey German & Anna Paczuska

REVIEWS:

• Jack London, by Hugo Dewar
• Five Days in June, by John Cunningham
• Against Our Will, by Colin Barker
• British Syndicalism, by Julian Harber
• The Rights and Wrongs of Women, by Judith Hamilton
• The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, by Alex Callinicos
• In Brief, by Alastair Hatchett

No. 97, April 1977

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the Socialist Workers Party

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Managing Editor:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Associate Editors:
DUNCAN HALLAS
STEVE JEFFRIES
COLIN SPARKS
Reviews Editor:
ALASTAIR HATCHETT
Editorial Board:
SYBIL COCK
ELANA DALLAS
PETE FYSH
TIM POTTER
JOANNA ROLLO

Letter to Readers

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• The Lib-Lab Deal
• The Leyland Toolroom Strike: Some Lessons
• Italy: Resurgent Reformism
• France: Municipal Rehearsal
• India: Reaped Rewards

The Great Education Debate: A Socialist View, by Richard Noss

[Correspondence:]

• Abortion in Demand: The Authors Protest, from V. Greenwood & J. Young
• Reply to Greenwood & Young, by Margaret Renn

Editor’s Note

A New Road for the Communist Party?, by Alex Callinicos

Briefing: What’s Happened to your Wages?

Immigration Today, by Joanna Rollo

The Reformist Challenge (RA The Socialist Challenge by Stuart Holland), by Colin Sparks

REVIEWS:

• Brecht, by Ian Patterson
• Eleanor Marx, by Alastair Hatchett
• Raids and Reconstructions, by Mike Flood Page
• The Politics of Spain, by Chris Harman
• In Brief, by Alastair Hatchett

Guide to Reading: The Rank and File Movement 1910-1926, by Alastair Hatchett

No. 98, May 1977

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the Socialist Workers Party

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Managing Editor:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Associate Editors:
DUNCAN HALLAS
STEVE JEFFRIES
COLIN SPARKS
Reviews Editor:
ALASTAIR HATCHETT
Editorial Board:
SYBIL COCK
ELANA DALLAS
PETE FYSH
TIM POTTER
JOANNA ROLLO

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• Economic Prospects: No Return to the Sixties
• The Social Contract: Far From Dead
• Zaire: The War in Shaba
• Ireland: The Republican Hunger Strike
• Southern Asia: Election Upsets

The Struggle Against the Social Contract: Leyland, Heathrow and April 20, by Steve Jeffreys, Sheila McGregor & John Rose

Briefing: Health and Safety

Heart of the Beast, by Milton Fisk

Gramsci versus Eurocommunism Part 1, by Chris Harman

REVIEWS:

• The Life of the Automobile, by Paul O’Flinn
• Nuclear Power, by Bill Fakes
• The Stalin Phenomenon, by Duncan Hallas
• The Real Brecht, by Ian H. Birchall
• The Home Front, the British & the Second World War, by Penny Summerfield
• Inside German Communism/Hamburg at the Barricades, by Chris Harman

Guide to Reading: Antonio Gramsci, by Alex Callinicos

No. 99, June 1977

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the Socialist Workers Party

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Managing Editor:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Associate Editors:
DUNCAN HALLAS
STEVE JEFFRIES
COLIN SPARKS
Reviews Editor:
ALASTAIR HATCHETT
Editorial Board:
SYBIL COCK
ELANA DALLAS
PETE FYSH
TIM POTTER
JOANNA ROLLO

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• Labour on the Rocks
• Conference Shadow Boxing
• Ethiopia: Class Struggle Intensity
• Spain: Control By Any Other Name

Gramsci versus Eurocommunism Part 2, by Chris Harman

The Cuts:

• Introduction
• Resisting the Hospital Closures in East London, by John Blake
• What’s Happening to the Health Service? by Gerry Dawson

The British Road to Socialism: A Debate

• Introduction
• The CP, the SWP and the Strategy for Socialism in Britain, by Geoff Roberts
• Revolutionary Strategy in Britain, by Alex Callinicos
• Guide to Reading: Parliamentary Road to Socialism, by Alastair Hatchett

REVIEWS:

• The National Front, by Colin Sparks
• Paying for the Crisis, by Susan Maguire
• Autobiographical Accounts of Everyday Life, by Elana Dallas
• Considerations on Western Marxism, by Alex Callinicos
• The Technology of Political Control, by Alastair Hatchett
• Southern Africa After Soweto, by Joanna Rollo
• In Brief, by Alastair Hatchett

No. 100, July 1977

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the Socialist Workers Party

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Managing Editor:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Associate Editors:
DUNCAN HALLAS
STEVE JEFFRIES
COLIN SPARKS
Reviews Editor:
ALASTAIR HATCHETT
Editorial Board:
SYBIL COCK
ELANA DALLAS
PETE FYSH
TIM POTTER
JOANNA ROLLO

Editorial, by Alex Callinicos

World Capitalism Today:

• Two Insights Don’t Make a Theory, by Michael Kidron
• Better a Valid Insight Than a Wrong Theory, by Chris Harman

Trotskyism Re-Assessed, by Duncan Hallas

Women and the Family (Part 1), by Joan Smith

World Crisis and the System, by Nigel Harris

British Labour Movement: Towards a Definition of the Problems, by Alastair Hatchett

Index of Issues 54/97

No. 101, September 1977

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the Socialist Workers Party

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Managing Editor:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Associate Editors:
DUNCAN HALLAS
STEVE JEFFRIES
COLIN SPARKS
Reviews Editor:
ALASTAIR HATCHETT
Editorial Board:
SYBIL COCK
ELANA DALLAS
PETE FYSH
TIM POTTER
JOANNA ROLLO

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• Three Months on the Streets
• Gaining the Upper Hand in Ireland, by SWM members
• Portugal: Government and Bosses Go on the Offensive
• Southern Africa

The National Question, SWP Conference Document

Eurocommunism: The State and Revolution, by Chris Harman

Briefing: The Crisis in the Communist Party

Lessons of Lewisham, by Tim Potter

In Defence of Violence, by Alex Callinicos & Alastair Hatchett

Guide to Reading: Guide to Reading on Fascism, by Alastair Hatchett

REVIEWS:

• Billie’s Blues, by Penny Valentine
• Trade Unions and the Media, by Aidan White
• Penguin China Readings, by Tim Potter
• The Green Flag, by Steve Berry
• On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, by Alex Callinicos
• Women and the Welfare State, by Irene Bruegel

No. 102, October 1977

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the Socialist Workers Party

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Managing Editor:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Associate Editors:
DUNCAN HALLAS
STEVE JEFFRIES
COLIN SPARKS
Reviews Editor:
ALASTAIR HATCHETT
Editorial Board:
SYBIL COCK
ELANA DALLAS
PETE FYSH
TIM POTTER
JOANNA ROLLO
DAVID TURNER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• Crisis of Leadership
• What Oil Boom?
• Towards Another War?
• Terror and Counter-Terror

Fascism and the Working Class, by Tim Roderick

Guide to reading on Ireland, by Steve Berry

Black Youth in Revolt, by Tony Bogues

[Letters on Education:]

• Simplistic Analysis, from David Hutchinson
• Educating a Debater, by Rip Bulkeley

Briefing: Power Generating Industry

British Leyland: The Shop Stewards and Participation, by Dave Lyddon

BOOKS:

• Muscular Reformism, by Colin Barker
• Revolutionary Optimism, by David Widgery
• Policing the Cities, by Irene Bruegel
• Final Solution, by Donny Gluckstein
• In the Company Union, by Mike Rossiter
• Machine Politics, by James O’Donnell
• Academic Muddles, by Alex Callinicos
• In Brief, by Alastair Hatchett

No. 103, November 1977

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the Socialist Workers Party

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Managing Editor:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Associate Editors:
DUNCAN HALLAS
STEVE JEFFRIES
COLIN SPARKS
Reviews Editor:
ALASTAIR HATCHETT
Editorial Board:
SYBIL COCK
ELANA DALLAS
PETE FYSH
TIM POTTER
JOANNA ROLLO
DAVID TURNER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• Miners: A Hot Winter
• Vorster’s South Africa
• Economy: Trade Wars
• Britain: The New Consensus
• Euro CP’s and the Crisis

Soviet Power, by Alex Callinicos

Guide to Reading on Russian Revolution, by Alex Callinicos

The Soviet Working Class Today, by Mike Haynes

Briefing: Productivity – The New Offensive

[Correspondence:]

• On Workers’ Participation, from Alan Gibbons

India: Introduction, by Colin Sparks

India and the Russian Revolution, by Barry Pavier

BOOKS:

• Grunwicks – Union Power, by John Rose
• Capitalism in Hungary, by Ewa Barker
• Before the CP, by Alastair Hatchett
• India Exposed, by Barry Pavier
• Union Limits, by Alastair Hatchett
• Irish Question, by Shaun Doherty
• Brecht Boshed Up, by Ian Patterson
• History As It Was Made, by Bob Dickinson
• In Brief, by Alastair Hatchett

No. 104, January 1978

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM
Monthly Journal of the Socialist Workers Party

6 Cottons Gardens, London E2 8DN

Managing Editor:
ALEX CALLINICOS
Associate Editors:
DUNCAN HALLAS
STEVE JEFFRIES
COLIN SPARKS
Reviews Editor:
ALASTAIR HATCHETT
Editorial Board:
SYBIL COCK
ELANA DALLAS
PETE FYSH
TIM POTTER
JOANNA ROLLO
DAVID TURNER

NOTES OF THE MONTH:

• World Economy Slowing Down
• Middle East: Peace for Profits
• China: Prospects for 1989

The Fire This Time, by Alex Callinicos

Briefing: Housing

Women and the Family (Part 2), by Joan Smith

Guide to Reading: Women and the Family, by Irene Bruegel

The United Front, by Pete Goodwin

REVIEWS:

• Spartacus Without the Slaves, by Laurie Flynn
• Marxist Theory in Britain, by Alex Callinicos
• Colonising Our Minds, by Nigel Fountain
• Marxology, by Colin Barker
• Sexism and the Law, by Nina Gosling
• Prophet of Boom, by Alex Callinicos
• Sociological Jargon, by Donny Gluckstein
• A Moral Tale, by Rip Bulkeley
• Feminism and Communism, by Jean McNair
• Rarified Criticism, by Jean McNair
• A Socialist Lion-Tamer, by Peter Bain
• The Velvet Glove, by Tim Potter
• Multinational Power, by Mike Rossiter
• Profits Before Homes, by Jimmy Dixon
• In Brief, by Alastair Hatchett

International Socialism Index
(Second Series)

Socialist Review

Main Newspaper Index
Encyclopedia of Trotskyism | Marxists’ Internet Archive

Last updated on 31 March 2015