Workers' Liberty 14, July 1990

Click here to download pdf. The fall of Stalinism in Eastern Europe brought a triumph for the bourgeoisie. But with what contradictions, and for how long?

Click here to download pdf. Survey section: Historic compromise in South Africa? The 30th anniversary of the introduction of the contraceptive pill Poll tax: 12 million defy the law France's Front National Labour: towards a one-faction party? A tale of two industrial struggles: ambulance workers, and engineering Israel/Palestine: influx and intifada Northern Ireland: Ulster says maybe.

Click here to download pdf. New agendas for the Labour left, discussed by a leading figure among those "Bennites" who stood out against the general absorption of the Labour left by the Kinnock regime.

Click here to download pdf., or read online, below "I am not for setting up a dogmatic standard. On the contrary we must attempt to help the dogmatists make their dogma clear to themselves. Especially communism is a dogmatic abstraction" (Marx [1]) That Left and Right should find common ground on the issue of Stalinism has been a source of discomfort for a 'negative' socialism which defines its politics in opposition to the Right rather than according to its own independent standards. One of the driving forces behind the history of left apologetics for Stalinism has been a misplaced...

Click here to download pdf. Describing and discussing the beginnings of socialist organisation in Eastern Europe after the fall of Stalinist rule there.

Click here to download pdf. A Polish socialist discusses the tasks and prospects in the aftermath of the fall of Stalinism in Poland and post-Stalinist regime's forced march to market capitalism.

Click here to download pdf. Discussing the new popularity and impact of musicals.

Click here to download pdf. Belinda Weaver takes a fresh look at a socialist classic, Edmund Wilson's To The Finland Station.

Click here to download pdf. Workers' Liberty 14 Reviews section The real history of US labour (Dianne Finger and Barry Finger review a book by Kim Moody) It takes all sorts? (Liz Millward reviews a book on the Krays) As modest as Stalin (Jim Denham reviews Jon Halliday's biography of Enver Hoxha) Helter skelter and stage by stage (Martin Thomas reviews books by Ken Livingstone and Seumas Milne Marxism without bullshit? (Jon Pike reviews a handbook of "analytical Marxism" by Jon Elster and Karl Ove Moene) "I have made enough voices" (Lilian Thomson writes on Greta Garbo)