CONTENTS

Inside front cover
Patrick Jones's poem 'Ich Dien'

News Review
Editorial, Livingstone's campaign, Transport, British Social Attitudes, Union recognition, Students, War in Chechnya, Between the lines, The Walrus on call centres

FEATURES

The battle after Seattle
John Rees looks at the way forward after the anti-capitalist protests

Century of the great hope
Paul Foot examines why the vote has not brought real change

Dreams and disillusion
Caroline Benn talks about the Labour Party past and present

Present tense, future perfect?
Our contributors look to the future of social and cultural change

COLUMNS

Thinking it through
Chris Harman looks at the economic disaster in eastern Europe
Letter from the US
Sharon Smith reports on the Seattle protests
Red letter days
Bloody Friday in George Square, Glasgow, by Dave Sherry
Stack on the back
Pat Stack asks, who wants to be a Tony Blair?

REVIEWS

Arts Review
Theatre, Film, Music, Art Mike Gonzalez on horror, plus revolutionary women artists and Magnum's best pictures
Books Review
Books reviewed include Misha Glenny's new history of the Balkans, and revelations of the connections between Hitler and the Vatican

Letters