Socialist

Review

CONTENTS

Inside front cover
The mass demo at Rover on 1 April

News Review
Editorial, Asylum Seekers, Deportations, Labour's figures, GM Foods, Joke?, Between the lines, The Walrus

FEATURES

Shock waves for New Labour
Defeat for Blair in the London mayoral election will increase his crisis, says Chris Bambery

Tribune of the people
Journalist of the decade Paul Foot talks to Judy Cox on politics and the press

The outcasts of Europe
The truth about Roma Gypsies, by Mike Haynes

Special feature
An appreciation of the life of the revolutionary Tony Cliff

When unity is strength
The united front and the fight for socialism, by Sabby Sagall

Transformation time
Charlie Kimber looks at the growing turmoil in Zimbabwe

COLUMNS

Letter from the US
New York's police continue their racist shooting spree, writes Sharon Smith
Red letter days
The birth of Karl Marx, by Keith Flett
Stack on the back
Will Frank Dobson challenge the racist nature of the police? Pat Stack thinks not

REVIEWS

Arts Review
Cradle Will Rock, reviewed by Lindsey German, plus the National Theatre's latest release, The Villain's Opera reviewed by Dave Beecham, and more
Books Review
Books reviewed include Tariq Ali on the Balkan War, plus China Miéville's acclaimed sci-fi novel

Letters