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November 2010 - THE BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWN AUSTERITY AND RESISTANCE After the Con-Dem spending review, Joseph Choonara, Danny Dorling and Graham Turner unpick the government’s plans, while Jane Hardy looks at the international situation and Denis Godard reports from France. Nikos Loudos tells the story of Greek struggle so far, while Marnie Holborow surveys the worsening crisis in Ireland. Mark Bergfeld analyses the devastating attack on education proposed in Lord Browne’s report, and Alistair Smith reports on the edubusiness of academies and free schools. CHAMPION OF THE FORGOTTEN UNDERCLASS Author and journalist Joe Bageant speaks to Patrick Ward about his new book and his life as a “left neck” in the US. Jake Pace-Lawrie reports from Dale Farm in Essex, where Travellers are resisting eviction, while Diane Jeantet reports on the "ethnic cleansing" of Roma by the French government. See the full contents of this issue. Also this month... The entrapment and eventual release of 33 Chilean miners provoked a media frenzy. But beneath the self-serving sympathy of Chile’s politicians lies the real story of solidarity, writes Mike Gonzalez. Frank Crichlow, a life-long anti-racist from west London, died recently. In a hitherto unseen interview from 1995, he spoke to Hassan Mahamdallie about his life. Pat Stack looks at "red" Ed Miliband, his limitations and the party’s rejection of New Labour. Socialist Review provides a round-up of resistance to austerity around Europe. Feedback features discussion on Made in Dagenham, disability and the EDL. See the full contents of this issue. This month in books Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward and The Obama Syndrome by Tariq Ali are reviewed by Shaun Doherty. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen. Iran's Influence, by Elaheh Rostami-Povey. Ricin!, by Lawrence Archer and Fiona Bawdon. The Verdict, by Polly Toynbee and David Walker. The Language of Silence, by Merilyn Moos. The Lean Years 1920-1933; The Turbulent Years 1933-1940, by Irving Bernstein. The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan, edited by Nick Turse. The Rise of the Green Left, by Derek Wall. Surface Detail, by Iain M Banks. The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation, by Shir Hever. Whose Crisis, Whose Future?, by Susan George. See the full contents of this issue. Art and Culture Colin Wilson goes to see Gauguin: Maker of Myth at Tate Modern. Martin Smith does some Porridge. John Clossick reviews Against Mussolini: Art and the Fall of a Dictator. In film, Sally Campbell reviews Let Me In, Ben Windsor watches Carlos, Josh Hollands gives his views on Fit, plus Bob Light takes in some old documentary films with the BFI's Shadows of Progress DVDs. See the full contents of this issue. From the archive... Listen online: When Democracy was Made in Dagenham - Ford strikers Dora Challingsworth and Sheila Douglass talk to Sabby Sagall and Sheila McGregor about the 1968 strike that led to the Equal Pay Act (from October 2010). Yemen: A state failed by imperialism - As Yemen once again becomes a target of imperialism following the cargo plane bomb plot, Tim Nelson draws on the history of imperial intervention in the region and highlights the hypocrisy of the "failed state" analysis (from February 2010). |
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