Issue 156 Analysis Morbid symptoms Alex Callinicos Where is Venezuela going? Andy Brown Grenfell: this should change everything Eileen Short The orphaned revolution: the meaning of October 1917 Alex Callinicos Maxim Gorky and the fellow travellers Cathy Porter The Russian Revolution and the British working class Pete Jackson After the surge: Corbyn and the road ahead Mark L Thomas A hard road to travel: black people and racism in the 19th century United States Ken Olende The myth of loyalist socialism Mike Milotte Marx’s Capital at 150 Nick Moore The Third Republic, the war and the mutiny in the French Army in 1917 Steve Guy Feedback The Bolsheviks and sexual liberation Noel Halifax Book reviews How far was the Russian Revolution made by the Bolsheviks? Steve Smith The unfinished revolution Esme Choonara Pick of the quarter This quarter’s selection