Anti-capitalism five years after Seattle
Spontaneity, strategy and politics
Chris Harman
NGOs: enemies or allies?
Ji Giles Ungpakorn
Venezuela: many steps to come
Mike Gonzalez
Book reviews
Isaac Deutscher: the prophet, his biographer and the watchtower
Neil Davidson
A truly human culture
Gareth Jenkins
A review of Al Richardson (ed), Victor Serge, Collected Writings on Literature and Revolution (Francis Boutle, 2004), £12.99
Hidden jewels from the Balkans
Mike Haynes
A review of Andreja Zivkovic and Dragan Plavsic (eds), The Balkan Socialist Tradition: Balkan Socialism and the Balkan Federation, 1871-1915 (Revolutionary History, vol 8, no 3, 2003), £12.95
Islam through the looking-glass
Anne Alexander
A review of Gilbert Achcar, Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror (Monthly Review, 2004), £12.99
Digging deeper
Chris Harman
A review of Thomas C Patterson, Marx’s Ghost: Conversations with Archaeologists (Berg, 2004), £15.99
Pick of the quarter
Pick of the quarter
One welcome by-product of the growth of the anti-capitalist movement since Seattle has been the international flowering of Marxist analysis in a variety of journals. In this new column we begain a regular survey of articles which readers will find useful. Some, although by no means all, are available on the web.