Issue 115

Analysis

Britain after Blair

Sarkozy: the French Thatcher?

Greece: waves from the student struggle

Nikos Loudos

Robin Blackburn interview: What really ended slavery?

Nandigram and the deformations of the Indian left

Aditya Sarkar

Gordon Brown

Brown’s Journey from Reformism to Neoliberalism

John Newsinger

New Labour’s economic “record”

Chris Harman

José Carlos Mariátegui: Latin America’s forgotten Marxist

Mike Gonzalez

At an impasse? Anti-capitalism and the social forums today

Alex Callinicos and Chris Nineham

France at the crossroads

Antoine Boulangé and Jim Wolfreys

The rate of profit and the world today

Chris Harman

Kim Moody interview: The superpower’s shopfloor

A revolution in paint: 100 years of Picasso’s Demoiselles

John Molyneux

The literature of a ravished continent: Achebe, Sembène and Ngugi

Ken Olende

Book reviews

Snobs and snappers

Andy Jones

An abstract view of the past

Matt Perry

Stalin’s Irish victims

Paul O’Brien

The making of an agitator

Chris Bambery

New Left Review: The search for theory

Ian Birchall

The merchant and the Middle Ages

Chris Harman

Professor Jekyll and Comrade Hyde

Viren Swami

Persian proletariat

Naz Massoumi

A handbook for activism

Katherine Connelly

Revamping old formulas

Iain Ferguson

Marx’s “transformation” made easy

Joseph Choonara

Pick of the quarter

Pick of the quarter