Issue 135

Analysis

The second coming of the radical left

Alex Callinicos

France after Sarkozy: Confronting the politics of despair

Jim Wolfreys

The life and times of Occupy Wall Street

Jen Roesch

Rochdale: an anatomy of the sexual abuse scandal

Judith Orr

Resistance: the best Olympic spirit

Dave Zirin and Gareth Edwards

The Syrian crucible

Jonathan Maunder

The rise and fall of the Jewish Labour Bund

Sai Englert

Characterising the period

Nigel Harris

Twenty five years of revolution

Colin Barker

Daniel Bensaïd and the broken time of politics

Alex Callinicos

A reply to David McNally

Joseph Choonara

Clutching at straws? Some mainstream accounts of the crisis

Brian O’Boyle

Grappling with the united front

Ian Birchall

Book reviews

It’s hard to be a saint in the city

Dan Swain

Consuming culture

Bea Leal

Capital ideas

Sarah Young

Dark mirror

Jack Farmer

Liberalism: theory and practice

Marieke Mueller

Ethnic dissension

Shirin Hirsch

Revolution revisited

Julie Sherry

A citizen of whose world?

Jamie Pitman

Pick of the quarter

This quarter’s selection