Issue 118

Analysis

The Iraq surge: glossing over the long defeat

Simon Assaf

New life for the new left

Ian Taylor

Scotland’s new road to reform?

Neil Davidson

From the credit crunch to the spectre of global crisis

Chris Harman

1968: an extraordinary year

Timeline

Archive: Forty years for Pandora

May 1968 across the decades

Matt Perry

Unfinished business: Martin Luther King in Memphis

Brian Kelly

Seizing the time: Tony Cliff and 1968

Ian Birchall

When old Labour went to war

John Newsinger

Egypt’s strike wave

Inside Egypt’s mass strikes

Anne Alexander

A new workers’ movement: the strike wave of 2007

Mustafa Bassiouny and Omar Said

China’s growth pains

Charlie Hore

Michel Foucault: friend or foe of the left

Colin Wilson

The first emperor and after: analysing Imperial China

Simon Gilbert

Book reviews

Gender, class and liberation

Sue Sparks

Another memorable year

Pete Jackson

Right enemy, wrong strategy

Martin Empson

Returning to the Russian question

Chris Harman

Exposing racism

Sadie Robinson

Capital and classroom

Andy Stone

Imperialism and homophobia

Colin Wilson

Slam on the brakes

Rachel Aldred and James Woodcock

A flawed vision

Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

Gramsci goes global

Bob Fotheringham

Reserve army on the march

George Paizis

Putting the social back into history

Mark O’Brien

Why millions are on the move

Phil Marfleet

Won’t get fooled again?

Jim Wolfreys

India today

Barry Pavier

Pick of the quarter

This quarter’s selection