CONTENTS

Inside front cover
Hands across the Berlin Wall

News Review
Editorial, London election, Pakistan, Nuclear Accident, The Walrus, Chechnya, Chile, Indonesia, Balkans

FEATURES

Blood on the tracks
The Paddington rail crash revealed the disaster that privatisation has brought. Peter Morgan investigates

Men behaving badly?
Lindsey German reviews Susan Faludi's new book on the nature of masculinity today

Broken dreams
Socialists in eastern Europe explain why the 1989 revolutions have not brought hoped for change

Living in a material world
Chris Harman's new book on world history is reviewed by John Molyneux

Reformism western style?
Alex Callinicos on class struggle in South Korea

COLUMNS

Letter from the US
Sharon Smith reveals the reality of US prosperity
Red letter days
The day the Chartists came to Newport by Phil Knight
Stack on the back
Pat Stack visits the Tory Party conference fringe

REVIEWS

Arts Review
Theatre, Film, Art Mike Gonzalez on salsa, plus two plays on the lost generation
Books Review
Books reviewed include locking up the poor and a life of Sylvia Pankhurst

Letters

Two new columns this month: In News Review 'The Walrus' will assess what's going on in industry, while in Arts Review, Mike Gonzalez looks at culture