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This journal was published from 1952 until 1963 by the Trotskyist tendency associated with Gerry Healy called The Group. They worked as a tendency within the British Labour Party seeking to build a revolutionary class struggle wing of this large union based party. Healy joined the wing of the Fourth International lead in part by by James P. Cannon after the FI split into two competing wings. Healy's wing was the International Committee of the Fourth International of which he soon became a leader of, along with James P. Cannon and Pierre Lambert, the leader of the French Section of the FI. The Club recruited a substantial number of former members of the Communist Party of Great Britain after they became disillusioned with Stalinism after the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party in February 1956 which brought Khrushchev's revelations about Stalin and, later that year, the defeat of the Hungarian Revolution. Labour Review coopted many of the ex-Stalinists onto the staff of the magazine and whom became editors. The magazine reflected closely the intellectual debates prompted by the Khrushchev era public revelations and political shifts, as well as commentary on British labour politics. In 1959 The Club eventually transformed into the more public Socialist Labor League (SLL).
Originally Labour Review appeared very sporadically but from 1957 it appeared more regularly. At the end of 1963 Labour Review was transformed into Fourth International as an organ of the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Labour Review was digitized and turned into high quality PDFs by Marty Goodman of the Riazanov Library Project in 2014
CONTENTS BY ISSUE
(January 1952 – Summer 1963)
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by J. Pawsey, 61 Smedley Rd, Manchester 8. [1]
Labour and Its Future
The German Labour Movement and Rearmament
American Labour Faces 1952
British Imperialism and Her African Colonies
Introducing Ourselves
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by J. Pawsey, 61 Smedley Rd, Manchester 8.
The Way to Socialism in Britain, by G. Healy
A Full Analysis of Bevan’s New Book,
- How did the British Capitalists Achieve Power?
- Oliver Cromwell and Aneurin Bevan
- Bevanism versus Marxism
- Some Merits of his Case
- British Liberalism, Political Democracy and Parliamentarism
- How Democratic is Parliament
- How Democratic is the British Political System
- The Way to Industrial Democracy
- A Democratic and Socialist Foreign Policy for Britain the Colonial Question
- The Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union and the Stalinist Bureaucracy
- A Socialist Anti-War Foreign Policy
- The Health Service; Safeguards Against Inflation; The Decadence of Private Enterprise
- Methods of Working Class Action
- Is Parliament the Sole Road to Socialism?
- Prospects of the Class Struggle
- The Road to Power
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11.
Plain Speaking on War and Peace, by G. Healy
A Criticism of “Labour’s Foreign Policy”
- An Extraordinary Omission
- Who is to Blame for the War Drive?
- Capitalism and its World Wars
- The Meaning of the Cold War
- Economic Compulsions Behind the War Drive
- Washington’s Foreign Policy – and Its Consequences
- The Lessons of Korea
- The Colonial Problem
- Pattern of World War III
- Proposed Ways of Preventing War
- The Kremlin’s Foreign Policy
- The Cost of a Bad Foreign Policy
- Against a Bi-Partisan Foreign Policy with the Tories
- A Socialist Foreign Policy
- The Road to Peace
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11.
Where is British Labour Going?
The Crisis In The Labour Party, by G. Healy
The Communist Congress at Moscow, by Arthur Dickinson
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11.
International Notes
What is Behind the Peace Talks? by G. Healy
The Crisis of British Capitalism, by W. Hunter
The Fall of Beria, by T. Mercer
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11. [3]
Introducing Labour Review, Editorial
The Lessons of Hungary; by C. Van Gelderen
A Letter to a member of the Communist Party, by John Daniels
The Law of Combined and Uneven Development; by F. Warde
Stalinism Socialism & Democracy, by William Hunter
Strachey versus Marx, by Tom Mercer and Peter Reed
BOOK REVIEWS:
- Hungarian Tragedy, by Peter Fryer, reviewed by K.M.
- Negroes on the March, by Daniel Guerin, reviewed by C.v.G.
- The Power Elite, by C. Wright Mills, reviewed by W.F. Warde
- After the Thirties, by Jack Lindsay, reviewed by Ken Coates
William F. Warde is the pseudonym of George Novack
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11. [4]
Editors:
JOHN DANIELS
ROBERT SHAW
Business Manager:
E.R. KNIGHT
Towards a Discussion on Principles, Editorial
The Manchester Guardian and the Suez Crisis, by Gracchus
Inside Russia Today, by Leonard Hussey
The Communist Party and Democratic Centralism, by J. Daniels
The Law of Uneven and Combined Development (part 2), by William F. Warde
The Chinese C.P. and Hungary, by M. Banda
BOOKS REVIEWED [5]:
- Fabian International Essays, by T.E.M. McKitterick and Kenneth Younger
- Eye-Witness in Hungary, by Charlie Coutts
- What Really Happened in Hungary? by Basil Davidson
- Collected Stories, by Isaac Babel
- The Power Elite, by C Wright Mills, reviewed by W.F. Warde (cont’d)
CORRESPONDENCE:
- from Ken Coates
- from Mike Kidron
Leonard Hussey is a pseudonym of Brian Pearce
William F Warde is the pseudonym of George Novack
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11.
Editors:
JOHN DANIELS
ROBERT SHAW
Business Manager:
E.R. KNIGHT
The Debate Goes on, Editorial
Hammersmith and After, Editorial
Problems & Prospects of British Capitalism, by T. Kemp
Engineers’ Strike & the Labour Movement, by R. Shaw
Zionism and the State of Israel, by E.S. Hillman
The Coming American Revolution, by W.F. Warde (3rd part concluded)
‘Private Opinion’, by D. Granin
BOOKS REVIEWED:
- My Recollections of Lenin, by Klara Zetkin, reviewed by Leonard Hussey
- Wings, A Korneichuk, reviewed by Leonard Hussey
- The Holy Family, by Marx & Engels, reviewed by Peter Fryer
- The Peasant War in Germany, by Engels, reviewed by M.G.
- The New Course, by LDT, reviewed by S.
- Automation and Social Progress, by S. Lilley, reviewed by M.H.
Leonard Hussey is a pseudonym of Brian Pearce
William F. Warde is the pseudonym of George Novack
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11.
Editors:
JOHN DANIELS
ROBERT SHAW
Business Manager:
E.R. KNIGHT
The Future of the Forums, Editorial
The New Phase of the Stalinist Crisis, Editorial
Towards the Labour Party Conference, Editorial
Three Speeches: An Analysis of the New Course of the Chinese Communist Party, by Michael Banda
British Communist History, by Joseph Redman
The Inadequacies of Russian Trotskyism, by R.W. Davies
A Comment, by Leonard Hussey
Problems and Prospects of British Capitalism II, by Tom Kemp
BOOK REVIEWS:
- The Stalin Era, by Anna Louise Strong, reviewed by H. & R. Hunter
- Russian Poetry 1917-1955, selected ed. Jack Lindsay, reviewed by Anna Bostock
- The Uses of Literacy, by Richard Hoggart, reviewed by J.D.
- British Constitutional History since 1832, by R.C. Schuyler (no named reviewer)
- The Case for Industrial Partnership, by G.D.H. Cole (no named reviewer)
- Guilty Men of Suez, by Frank Verity, reviewed by J.D.
- The Rationalist Annual, 1957, reviewed by J.D.
- Arguments A French bi-monthly, reviewed by T.K.
Debate on Dialectics, by C.S and un-named
CORRESPONDENCE:
- From A. Green
- From George Gray
- From Eric Heffer
Joseph Redman and Leonard Hussey are pseudonyms of Brian Pearce
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11.
Editors:
JOHN DANIELS
ROBERT SHAW
Business Manager:
E.R. KNIGHT
EDITORIALS:
- Soviet Reality
- Socialism, the H-Bomb and War
- Labour and Nationalization
Left against Right at Brighton, by C. van Gelderen
Lenin as Philosopher, by Peter Fryer
From ‘Social-Fascism’ to ‘People’s Front’, by Joseph Redman
Apartheid: the Class Basis, by South African
Marxism, Stalinism and Political Economy, (An Open Letter to Professor Ostrovilyanov), by Tom Kemp
COMMUNICATIONS:
- From E.S. Hillman
- From T. Marshall
- From E. Stewart
BOOK REVIEWS:
- The Fateful Years, by Hugh Dalton, reviewed by John Lauchlan
- The Theory of the Leisure Class, by Veblen, reviewed by Gracchus
Joseph Redman is a pseudonym of Brian Pearce
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11.
Editors:
JOHN DANIELS
ROBERT SHAW
Business Manager:
E.R. KNIGHT
40 Years of Soviet Russia, Editorial
Radio, Science, Technique and Society, by Leon Trotsky
The Case of André Marty, by Joseph Redman
The Works of Sigmund Freud: A Marxist Critique, by John McLeish
COMMUNICATIONS:
- From Lawrence Daly
- From Edwin Heath
- From R. Sherwood
- From George Atkins
BOOK REVIEWS:
- British Labour and the Russian Revolution, 1917-24, by S.R. Graubard, reviewed by J. Redman
- The First Labour Government 1924, by Richard W. Lyman, reviewed by Joseph Redman
- Science in History, by J.D. Bernal, reviewed by John Daniels
- Mutiny Against Madness, by Konni Zilliacus, reviewed by J.D.
- Mao’s China, by Ygael Gluckstein, reviewed by John Whitaker
- Capital, vol.2, by Marx, reviewed by L.N.
- The Development of Capitalism in Russia, by V.I. Lenin, reviewed by L.N.
- Trade Union Leadership, by V.L. Allen, reviewed by J.A.
- Control of Inflation, by Geoffrey Maynard, reviewed by S Thomas
- The Economic and Social Consequences of Automation, by F. Pollock, reviewed by David Dean
- The Revolution Betrayed, by LDT, reviewed by Jim Johnson
- The Hungarian Revolution, ed. Melvin J Lasky, reviewed by Jack Forster
Joseph Redman is a pseudonym of Brian Pearce
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11.
Editors:
JOHN DANIELS
ROBERT SHAW
Business Manager:
EDWARD R. KNIGHT
Labour and Leadership, Editorial
The Dockers and Trade Union Democracy, by William Hunter
The Early Years of the CPGB, by Joseph Redman
Empiricist Philosophy and Empiricist Habits of Thinking, by John Marshall
COMMUNICATIONS:
- From George Atkins
- From Frank Girling
BOOK REVIEWS:
- Is Peace Possible? by Kathleen Lonsdale, reviewed by J.M.
- The Atomic Age and Our Biological Future, by H.V. Brondsted, reviewed by J.C.
- Church and People in an Industrial City, by E.R. Wickham, B.D., reviewed by Henry Martin
- King and Commons 1660-1832, by Betty Kemp, reviewed by K.R. Andrews
- Social Class and Educational Opportunity, by J.E. Floud, A.H. Halsey and F.M. Martin, reviewed by John Daniels
- Bessie Braddock, MP, by Millie Toole, reviewed by John Lauchlan
- Child of the Revolution, by Wolfgang Leonhard, reviewed by Gracchus
- Documents of Modern Political Thought, ed. T.E. Utley and J. Stuart Maclure, reviewed by R. Sherwood
- The Theory of Wage Determination, ed. John T. Dunlop, reviewed by T. Marshall
Joseph Redman is a pseudonym of Brian Pearce
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11.
Editors:
JOHN DANIELS
ROBERT SHAW
Business Manager:
EDWARD R. KNIGHT
Wages and the Bomb: A Single Front, Editorial
An Unreasonable Reasoner, Editorial
Marxism and the Algerian Revolution, by Michael Banda
The British Stalinists and the Moscow Trials, by Joseph Redman
British Empiricism and Natural Science, by John Marshall
COMMUNICATIONS:
- From Noel Anderson
- From Tony Guthrie
DOCUMENTS:
BOOK REVIEWS:
- The Family Life of Old People, by Peter Townsend, reviewed by Cliff Slaughter
- Personality, Appearance and Speech, by T.H. Pear, reviewed by M.H.
- Jamaica, by Fernando Henriques, reviewed by C. van Gelderen
- Speed-up Law Reform, by Robert S.W. Pollard, reviewed by Ronald Sedler
- Peterloo, by Donald Read, reviewed by K.R. Andrews
Joseph Redman is a pseudonym of Brian Pearce
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11.
Editors:
JOHN DANIELS
ROBERT SHAW
Business Manager:
EDWARD R. KNIGHT
The Murder of Imre Nagy, Editorial
The Victory of Charles de Gaulle, Editorial
Strike Strategy, Editorial
London Busmen in Battle, by Bob Potter
The Crisis, The Budget and the Workers, by Tom Mercer
Religion and Social Revolt, by Cliff Slaughter
‘New Class’? by Tom Kemp
The Logic of Apartheid, by Seymour Papert
COMMUNICATIONS:
- From Gordon Cruickshank
- From David Prynn and James D. Young
- From Martin Grainger
DOCUMENT:
Rejected by the New Reasoner
BOOK REVIEWS:
- The Crime of Galileo, by Giorgio de Santillana, reviewed by Louis Marks
- Modern Science and the Nature of Life, by William S. Beck, reviewed by C.S.
- The Criminal Area, by Terence Morris, reviewed by Donald Veall
- Child of Communism, by Ede Pfeiffer, reviewed by Trevor Park
- The Labour Movement in the Sudan, 1946-1955, by Saad ed din Fawzi, reviewed by Peter Worsley
Martin Grainger is the pseudonym of Chris Pallis
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11.
Editors:
JOHN DANIELS
ROBERT SHAW
Business Manager:
EDWARD R. KNIGHT
Three Conferences, Editorial
Socialists and the Trade Union, by Brian Behan
‘Export of Revolution’, 1917-1924, by Brian Pearce
Freedom of the Individual, by Peter Fryer
COMMUNICATIONS:
- Stalinism and the Defeat of the 1945-51 Labour Governments, from Peter Cadogan
- Science and Socialism, from G.N. Anderson
SUMMER BOOKS:
- The New Ghana, by J.G. Amamoo, reviewed by Ekiomenesekenigha
- The First International, ed. and trans. by Hans Gerth, reviewed by Henry Collins
- Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915-1918, ed. by Z.A.B. Zeman, reviewed by B.P.
- Stalin’s Correspondence with Churchill, Attlee, Roosevelt and Truman, 1941-45, reviewed by Brian Pearce
- The Economics of Communist Eastern Europe, by Nicolas Spulber, reviewed by Tom Kemp
- The Epic Strain in the English Novel, by E.M.W. Tillyard, reviewed by S.F.H.
- A Victorian Eminence, by Giles St Aubyn, reviewed by K.R. Andrews
- The Sweet and Twenties, by Beverley Nichols, reviewed by Douglas Goldring
- Soviet Education for Science and Technology, by A.G. Korol, reviewed by John Daniels
- Seven Years Solitary, by Edith Bone, reviewed by J.C.D.
- The Kingdom of Free Men, by G. Kitson Clark, reviewed by Stanley Evans
- On Religion, by K. Marx and F. Engels, reviewed by Cyril Smith
- A Cockney in Moscow, by Harold Elvin, reviewed by P. Bryan
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11.
Editors:
JOHN DANIELS
ROBERT SHAW
Business Manager:
EDWARD R. KNIGHT
Rank and File on the Move, Editorial
The Irony of History in Stalinism, by Isaac Deutscher
Race Riots: the Socialist Answer, by Cliff Slaughter
The Pasternak Affair, by Alan MacDonald
Marxists in the Second World War, by William Hunter
The Origins of Sectarianism, by Peter Cadogan
DOCUMENT:
- A Charter of Workers’ Demands
COMMUNICATION:
- Rejected by the New Statesman, by Douglas Goldring
MUSIC FROM AFAR, by P. McGowan (trans.)
BOOK REVIEWS:
- The British Communist Party: A Historical Profile, by Henry Pelling, reviewed by Brian Pearce
- The Worker Views his Union, by Joel Seidman, Jack London, Bernard Karsh and Daisy L. Tagliacozzo, reviewed by Jock Stevens
- Death on the Left, by John Connell, reviewed by G. Gale
- Ethical and Political Problems of the Atomic Age, by C.F. von Weizsacker, reviewed by Donald O. Soper
- The Initial Triumph of the Axis, ed. Arnold Toynbee and Veronica M. Toynbee, reviewed by J.A.
- French Socialism in the Crisis Years, 1933-1936, by John T. Marcus, reviewed by Robert Sherwood
- Quai d’Orsay, 1945-51, by Jacques Dumaine, reviewed by Martin Grainger
- The Soviet Cultural Scene 1956-1957, ed. W.Z. Laqueur and G. Lichtheim, reviewed by H. Stevens
- People Like Us, by Paul Hogarth, reviewed by Nigel Harris
- The Doors are Closing, by György Sebestyen, reviewed by Dora Scarlett
- The Crime Against Europe, ed. Herbert O. Mackey, reviewed by S.F.H.
Martin Grainger is the pseudonym of Chris Pallis
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 266 Lavender Hill, London, S.W.11.
Editors:
JOHN DANIELS
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
Managing Editor:
PETER FRYER
The Challenge of the Socialist Labour League, Editorial
Revolution and Class Consciousness, by Cliff Slaughter
Some Past Rank-And-File Movements, by Brian Pearce
COMMUNICATIONS:
BOOK REVIEWS:
- The Third International After Lenin, by Leon Trotsky, reviewed by John Daniels
- The Anti-Corn Law League, 1838-1846, by Norman McCord
The Advent of the Labour Party, by Philip P. Poirier, reviewed by B.P.
- A Room in Moscow, by Sally Belfrage, reviewed by P. McGowan
- Is the Monarchy Perfect?, by Lord Altrincham and Others, reviewed by P.G.
- Atomic Radiation Dangers and What They Mean to You, by H.W. Heckstall-Smith, reviewed by Gracchus
- World Without War, by J.D. Bernal, reviewed by Nigel Harris
B. Farnborough is a pseudonym of Brian Pearce
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 186 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.
Editors:
BRIAN PEARCE
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
Managing Editor:
PETER FRYER
In Defence of Trotskyism, Editorial
Marxists in Conference, by Peter Fryer
DOCUMENT:
- Political Resolution of the Socialist Labour League
The ‘New Left’ and the Working Class, by Cliff Slaughter
Scientifically – or ‘Somehow’? A Letter to a Friend, by L.D. Trotsky
COMMUNICATIONS:
- ‘The Origins of Sectarianism’, from Peter Cadogan
- From James D. Young
BOOK REVIEWS:
- The Boss, by Roy Lewis and Rosemary Stewart, reviewed by Sam Reynolds
- The First Principles of Industrial Relations, by A.E.C. Hare, reviewed by John Byrne
- The Yorkshire Miners. A History, Vol.I, by Frank Machin, reviewed by John Peel
- The British Political System, by Andre Mathiot
British Pressure Groups. Their Role in Relation to the House of Commons, by D.M. Stewart
Anonymous Empire, by S.E. Finer, reviewed by Robert Sherwood
- King George VI, by John W. Wheeler-Bennett, reviewed by Douglas Goldring
- A Short History of Germany (1815-1945), by E.J. Passant, reviewed by Philip Wiener
- The Personality of Jonathan Swift, by Irvin Ehrenpreis, reviewed by S.F.H.
- Communism and the Theologians. Study of an Encounter, by Charles West, reviewed by Stanley Evans
- The International Year Book and Statesmen’s Who’s Who, 1959, edited by L.G. Pirne
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 186 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.
Editors:
BRIAN PEARCE
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
Socialists and the Summit, Editorial
After the General Election, Editorial
The ‘New Left’ Must Look to the Working Class, by Gerry Healy
The Politics of South Bank, by Bob Pennington
Appendix: Extract from At Home and Abroad
Marxism in Britain 1881-1920, by Brian Pearce
COMMUNICATION:
- The ‘New Left’, from Alasdair Maclntyre
AUTUMN BOOKS:
- British Economic Policy since the War, by Andrew Shonfield, reviewed by Frank Green
- The Falling Rate of Profit, by Joseph Gillman, reviewed by Frank Green
- Britain and the Arabs, by Glubb Pasha
The Great Powers, by Max Beloff, reviewed by J.A.E.
- Power at the Top, by Clive Jenkins, reviewed by J. Swan
- Man in Employment, by Alfred Badger, reviewed by John Peel
- The Psychology of Social Class, by Maurice Halbwachs, reviewed by C. Slaughter
- The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System, by R.W. Davies, reviewed by T. Kemp
- Communism and Social Democracy, 1914-1931, Vol. IV of a History of Socialist Thought, by G.D.H. Cole, reviewed by Henry Collins
- Literary Reminiscences, by I.S. Turgenev
A Nest of Gentlefolk, and other stories, by I.S. Turgenev
Portraits of Russian Personalities Between Reform and Revolution, by Richard Hare, reviewed by J.B.
- The Eighth Day of the Week, by Marek Hlasko
Portrait of Poland, by Bernard Newman
Warsaw in Chains, by Stefan Korbonski, reviewed by John Purton
- The Everlasting Gospel, by A.L. Morton, reviewed by F.T.
- Attorney for the Damned, by Arthur Weinberg, reviewed by L.M. Mannheim
- Communism in Guatemala: 1944-1954, by Ronald M. Schneider, reviewed by A.R.
- T.E. Lawrence, by Jean Bernard Villars, reviewed by Robert Sherwood
- The Trouble with the Irish, by Leonard Wibberley, reviewed by S.F.H.
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 186 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4. [6]
Editors:
BRIAN PEARCE
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
Literary Editor:
ALASDAIR MACINTYRE
A Statement, by the Editors
Politics of Prosperity and Depression, by Tom Kemp
Lessons of the Dining Car Strike, by Brian Arundel
Freedom and Revolution, by Alasdair MacIntyre
Building the Bolshevik Party, by Brian Pearce
BOOK REVIEWS:
- The Shop Stewards’ Movement and Workers’ Control, 1910-1922, by B. Pribicevic, reviewed by B.P.
- 1931 Political Crisis, by R. Bassett, reviewed by Bill Parry
- Communism and British Intellectuals, by Neal Wood, reviewed by Bill Parry
- Over-centralisation in Economic Administration, by Janos Kornai, reviewed by Tom Kemp
- Gangrene, Benenson edit., reviewed by Tom Kemp
- Dawn in Nyasaland, by Guy Clutton-Brock, reviewed by Ade Olu
- Hadrian the Seventh, by Fr. Rolfe, reviewed by Henry Pelling
- Soviet Prose, Hingley, edit., reviewed by B.P.
- Police, by John Coatman, reviewed by B.P.
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 186 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.
Editors:
BRIAN PEARCE
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
Once Again – The Summit, by the Editors
C.N.D. and politics, by G. Gale
A New Ideologist of Capitalism, by Tom Kemp
Restoring Trotsky’s Place in History, by J.B.S.
Alienation and the Working Class, by Frank Girling
SUMMER BOOKS:
- The Mind of an Assassin, by D. Levine, reviewed by Tom Kemp
- Government, Law and Courts in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, by Grovski & Gryzbowski, reviewed by Sam Reynolds
- The Soviet Citizen. Daily life in a Totalitarian Society, by Inkeles & Bauer, reviewed by J.D.
- Khrushchev’s Russia, by Edward Crankshaw, reviewed by Tom Kemp
- Early Soviet Writers, by Zavalischin, reviewed by B.P.
- Comedy in the Soviet Theatre, by Yeshov, reviewed by B.P.
- Safe Conduct and Other Works, Boris Pasternak, reviewed by by B.P.
- Essays in Labour History. In Memory of G.D.H. Cole, by Briggs and Saville, reviewed by B.P.
- The Foundry Workers – A Trade Union History, by Fyrth & Collins, reviewed by H. Finch
- The Great Decision, by M. Amrine, reviewed by Stephen Williams
- Social Origins, by Briffault, reviewed by Cliff Slaughter
- Queen Mary, by James Pope-Hennessey, reviewed by Celia Gale
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 186 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.
Editors:
BRIAN PEARCE
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
Scarborough 1960, by Gerry Healy
1921 And All That, by Brian Pearce
What Is Revolutionary Leadership? by Cliff Slaughter
Nehru’s India in the Plan Era, by Tom Kemp
AUTUMN BOOKS:
- This Little Band of Prophets, by Fremantle, reviewed by H. Pelling
- Imperialism and Social Reform, by Bernard Semmel, reviewed by H. Pelling
- Out of Apathy, by E.P. Thompson, reviewed by Cliff Slaughter
- Alexander II and the Modernization of Russia, by W.E. Mosse, reviewed by B.P.
- Engels as Military Critic, ed. Chaloner, reviewed by B.P.
- The Great Contest, by Isaac Deutscher, reviewed by B.P.
- Soviet Conduct in World Affairs, by A. Dallin, reviewed by B.P.
- From Stalin to Khrushchev, by G.J. Jones, reviewed by B.P.
- The Ministry of Labour and National Service, by K. Ince, reviewed by John Peel
- New Approach to Industrial Democracy, by H.A. Clegg, reviewed by Jim Roche
- Trade Unions and the Labour Party Since 1945, by M. Harrison, reviewed by D. Finch
- The Private Papers of Hore-Belisha, ed. J.S. Munney, reviewed by H. Finch
- Chartist Studies, by Asa Briggs, reviewed by Pat Bickers
- Public Order in the Age of the Chartists, by F.C. Mather, reviewed by Pat Bickers
- The Fell of Dark, by James Norman, reviewed by G.R.H.E.
- Drawn in Colour, by Noni Jabavu, reviewed by Benita Teper
- Giants Cast Long Shadows, by Bruce Lockhart, reviewed by R.A.
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 186 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.
Editors:
BRIAN PEARCE
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
A Socialist Foreign Policy, by Cliff Slaughter
Pasternak and the Calendar of the Revolution, by Isaac Deutscher
Lenin and Trotsky on Pacifism & Defeatism, by Brian Pearce
BOOK REVIEWS:
- Chinese Communes, by Richard Hughes, reviewed by G.K.
- The Price of Victory, by R.W. Thompson, reviewed by R.F.T.
- Nationalised Industry, by William A. Robson, reviewed by J.P.
- Economic and Financial Aspects of Social Security, by Henry Richardson, reviewed by J.G.
- Herbert Morrison, an autobiography, by Lord Morrison, reviewed by G.G.
- Comprehensive School, The Story of Woodberry Down, reviewed by G.G.
- New Cambridge Modern History, Vol.12, reviewed by C.S.
- Hidden Persuaders, by Vance Packard, reviewed by P.P.
- My Road to Berlin, by Willy Brandt, reviewed by C.v.G.
- The Rise and Fall of Alfred Krupp, by Gordon Young, reviewed by S.W.
- Spanish Labyrinth, by Gerald Brenan, reviewed by Ch.S.
- Recent Trends in Indian Nationalism, by A.R. Desai, reviewed by T.K.
- Education for Barbarism in South Africa, by Tabata, reviewed by B.T.
- The Essential Left, reviewed by C.S.
- Collected Stories, by Isaac Bebel, reviewed by A.S.
- Political Handbook of the World, ed. Mallory, reviewed by G.G.
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 186 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.
Editors:
BRIAN PEARCE
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
Opportunism in 1961, by F.K. Girling
The Course of Capitalist Development An Outline Analysis, by Tom Kemp
China’s Communes, by George Kane
BOOK REVIEWS:
- Agrarian Policy of the Chinese Communist Party, by Chao Kuo-Chin, reviewed by G.K.
- China Crosses the Yalu, by Allan S. Whiting, reviewed by G.K.
- The Red Barbarians, by Roy Macgregor-Hastie, reviewed by G.K.
- China and Her Shadow, by Tibor Mende, reviewed by G.K.
- Sun Yat-Sen and Communism, by Shao Chuan-Leng & Norman D. Parkes, reviewed by G.K.
- Russia and China, by J.V. Davidson-Houston, reviewed by G.K.
- Potsdam Conference, by Feis, reviewed by G.G.
- Birth of the Bomb, by R.W. Clark, reviewed by H.F.
- Survey of International Affairs, by Barraclough, reviewed by J.A.
- Documents on International Affairs, ed. Frankland Noble, reviewed by J.A.
- The Fall of Singapore, by Frank Owen, reviewed by H.F.
- Yugoslavia, by Heppell and Singleton, reviewed by P.B.
- Christian Democracy in Italy, by Webster, reviewed by C.v.G.
- The Politics of Soviet Education, by G. Bereday & G.Pennar, reviewed by G.G.
- To the Finland Station, by Edmund Wilson, reviewed by J.A.
- The Big Push, by Gardner, reviewed by J.A.
- Hyndman and British Socialism, by Tsuzuki, reviewed by B.P.
- Edith Simcox and George Eliot, by Mackenzie, reviewed by H.C.
- The Workshop of the World, by J.D. Chambers, reviewed by C.C.
- A Short History of the Labour Party, by Henry Pelling, reviewed by M.S.
- The Writers’ Dilemma, Edit. S. Spender, reviewed by H.C.
- The Waste Makers, by Vance Packard, reviewed by D.A.
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 186 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.
Editors:
BRIAN PEARCE
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
The World Prospect of Socialism:
Resolution adopted by the Socialist Labour League, London 1961
BOOK REVIEWS:
- The Price of TU Leadership, by Bryn Roberts, reviewed by V.A.
- Trade Union Officers, by H.A. Clegg, reviewed by H.C.
- Methodism and Trade Unions, by Robert D. Wearmouth, reviewed by A.B.
- Parliament Public Ownership, by A.H. Hanson, reviewed by G.G.
- A Prime Minister Remembers, by Lord Attlee & Francis Williams, reviewed by H.F.
- Science and Government, by C.P. Snow, reviewed by R.S.
- Power Without Property, by Adolph Berle, reviewed by G.P.
- The Road from Sharpeville, by Bernard Sachs, reviewed by T.B.
- Lawrence of Arabia, by Anthony Nutting, reviewed by J.A.
- Wilfred Scawen Blunt, by Earl of Lytton, reviewed by R.M.
- Nuclear Weapons and Christian Conscience, ed. Walter Stein, reviewed by C.W.
- Life and Times of Nikita Kruschev, by Roy MacGregor-Hastie, reviewed by M.J.
- People and Life; Memoirs, by Ilya Ehrenburg, reviewed by H.C.
- The Writer and Commitment, by John Mander, reviewed by B.T.
- Comrade Jacob, David Caute, reviewed by B.T.
- Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason, by Georges Sorel, reviewed by C.S.
- Civil War in Russia, David Footman, reviewed by C.v.G.
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 186 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.
Editors:
TOM KEMP
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
France, Editorial
Cuba, by F. Rodriguez (translated from La Verité, 1961)
Lenin, (Philosophical Notebooks), by Cliff Slaughter
REVIEWS:
- Wilkes and Liberty, by Georges Rudé, reviewed by H.C.
- Tyranny of Concepts, by G. Leff, reviewed by C.S.
- Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx, by Robert Tucker, reviewed by C.S.
- Marx, An Historical and Critical Study, by Lichtheim, reviewed by C.S.
- Revisionism, edit. L. Labedz, reviewed by T.K.
- Parliamentary Socialism, by Milliband, reviewed by P.B.
- Soviet Society, edit. Inkeles & Geiger, reviewed by T.K.
- Education and the Working Class, by Jackson & Marsden, reviewed by G.G.
- The Abdication, by Broad, reviewed by G.G.
- Century of Revolution, by Christopher Hill, reviewed by J.R.
- Break-Up of the Hapsburg Empire, by A.B. Zeman, reviewed by G.G.
- The Mind of Germany, by H. Kohn, reviewed by G.G.
- Politics and the Novel, by Irving Howe, reviewed by T.O.
- A History of Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir, reviewed by B.H.
- The Origins of the Cold War, by Fleming, reviewed by H.F.
- The General Strike in the North East, by History Group of the Communist Party, reviewed by W.H.
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 186 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.
Editors:
TOM KEMP
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
Against Revisionism (Editorial Comment)
Class, Caste and State in The Soviet Union, by Tom Kemp
Need For Developing Revolutionary Theory: The case of Alasdair Macintyre, by James Barker
The Theoretical Front (Lenin’s Philosophical Notebooks), by Cliff Slaughter
BOOK REVIEWS:
- The Historical Novel, by Lukacs, reviewed by J.B.
- Revolution et la guerre d’Espagne, by Broué, reviewed by T.K.
- Anatomy of Soviet Man, by Klaus Mehnert, reviewed by A.D.
- Stalin, by Isaac Deutscher, reviewed by R.S.
- Derbyshire Miners, by J.E. Williams, reviewed by J.P.
- History of Poland, by Halecki, reviewed by A.D.
- Herzen and the Birth of Russian Socialism, by Malia, reviewed by K.F.
- Marx Against the Peasant, by David Mitrany, reviewed by C.S.
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 186 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.
Editors:
TOM KEMP
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
EDITORIAL:
- For a New Leadership of the Left
Two Studies of Imperialism
- by Tom Kemp
- by Peter Jeffries
Culture and socialism and a Manifesto Art and Revolution, by Leon Trotsky (translated by Brian Pearce)
Manifesto – Art and Revolution, by André Breton and Diego Rivera
BOOK REVIEWS:
- History of the Southern Confederacy, by Eaton, reviewed by G.L.
- Francis Bacon, by Farrington, reviewed by J.R.
- James Watt, by I.B. Hart, reviewed by J.R.
- Underprivileged Nations, by Moussa, reviewed by T.K.
- Economics of Socialism Reconsidered, by Henry Smith, reviewed by G.P.
- Wealth and Power in America, by Gabriel Kolko, reviewed by P.J.
- The Wealth of the Gentry 1540-1660, by A Simpson, reviewed by H.C.
Peter Jeffries is the pseudonym of Geoff Pilling
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 186 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.
Editors:
TOM KEMP
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
The Sino-Soviet Conflict, Editorial (NEC of SLL)
Labour Youth to the Fore, Editorial
The dialectic and Lenin’s politics, by Cliff Slaughter Part 3
Theory and Practice in Marxism, by Cyril Smith
Science of Revolution:
Modern Science and dialectical materialism, by Ralph Martin
Social change and the intelligentsia, by Tom Kemp
BOOK REVIEWS:
- On the Prevention of War, by John Strachey, reviewed by G.G.
- The Strangled Cry, by John Strachey, reviewed by J.A.
- Two Short Accounts of Psycho-analysis, by Sigmund Freud, reviewed by J.R.
- Spanish Fury, by Clough, reviewed by C.H.S.
- The Miners of Nottinghamshire, by Griffin, reviewed by P.J.
- City, Government and National Politics, 1625-1643, by W. Pearl, reviewed by by G.W.
- An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, by Bertrand Russell, reviewed by C.S.
LABOUR REVIEW
Published by New Park Publications, Ltd., 186 Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.
Editors:
TOM KEMP
CLIFF SLAUGHTER
Manifesto of the International Committee of the Fourth International – 25 Years After
Socialist Labour League Conference
Revisionism and the 4th International, by Cliff Slaughter
Contradictions of British Capitalism, by Tom Kemp
The class struggle in Britain: Resolution of SLL
BOOKS:
- The Northern Underground, 1863-1917, by Futrell, reviewed by M. Banda (Extended review)
- De Gaulle Before Paris, by Raymond Aron, reviewed by T.K.
- The Kremlin since Stalin, by Wolfgang Leonhard, reviewed by D.P.
- Unarmed Victory, by Bertrand Russell, reviewed by G.G.
- The Appeasers, by Martin Gilbert, reviewed by M.F.
- The Use and Abuse of Trade Unions, by Arthur Bottomley, reviewed by W.H.
- Nationalisation, Readings, edit. Hanson, reviewed by J.P.
- British Wage Councils, by Bayliss, reviewed by J.P.
- Oscar Wilde, by Montgomery Hyde, reviewed by G.W.
- History of Japan, by Malcolm Kennedy, reviewed by T.K.
- Consider Japan, by Economist correspondents
- Religion in the Soviet Union, by Walter Kolarz, reviewed by J.C.
Transcriber’s Footnotes
This index was transcribed by Ted Crawford from the copies of Labour Review in the British Library collection.
1. The first 5 issues of Vol.1 are of A5 size black and white and rather dull in striking contrast to Vol.2. No editors or editorial Board are given. There are no book reviews or letters.
2. No date given.
3. In this first issue of Vol.2 no names of editors or Editorial Board are given. From now onwards the cover is in colour, the whole journal is on glossy A4 paper and there are book reviews and letters.
4. From now onwards there is a named editorial board.
5. No names of reviewers are given in this issue, except for W.F. Warde.
6. There are no more letters or correspondence from this issue onwards.
Last updated on 3 December 2014