Socialist

Review

CONTENTS

Inside front cover
Marxism 2000

News Review
Editorial, Ireland, Middle East, Trade Unions, Between the lines, The Walrus

FEATURES

Labour's racism
Mike Diboll and Elane Heffernan on the politics of scapegoating

Blair's bad result
London elections analysed by Rob Hoveman and Mike Simons

Getting back on the tracks
Martin Smith and Jon Flaig on the crisis in industry and the electricians strike

Green shoots of resistance
Opposition in the Balkans looked at by Dragan Plavsic

The politics of protest
Pierre Bourdieu interviewed by Kevin Ovenden

Insider dealing
Mike Haynes interviews a World Bank economist

Land of the falling yen
David McNeill's letter from Japan

Streets of fire
Police repression of blacks, by Nick Wall

COLUMNS

Thinking it through
Chris Harman on intervention in Sierra Leone
Red letter days
Gareth Jenkins on Paris 1848
Stack on the back
Pat Stack considers elections

REVIEWS

Arts Review
The countryside by Mike Gonzalez, plus Tate Modern, and Ken Loach interview
Books Review
Books reviewed include the RUC, Bangladeshi women and jazz

Letters