Contents

Editorial
Alex Callinicos     South Africa after apartheid         3
Chris Harman        France's hot December               47  
Brian Richardson    The making of a revolutionary       91  
Gareth Jenkins      Why Lucky Jim turned right'
                     - an obituary of Kingsley Amis    103  
Mark O'Brien        The bloody birth of capitalism     119  
Lee Humber          Studies in revolution              133  
Adrian Budd         A new life for Lenin               143  
Martin Smith        Bookwatch: the General Strike      155  

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