Socialist

Review

CONTENTS

Inside front cover
London student nurses protest at their conditions

News Review
Editorial, Nice protests, Ford ballot, Council Housing, Serbia, and Palestine, Peru, Marriage, Socialist Alliances, Productivity, Between the lines, The Walrus

FEATURES

Democracy in America?
Class, racism and corruption in the presidential campaign, by Lindsey German and Sam Ashman

Peculiarly British disasters
The consequences of privatisation, by Peter Morgan

The year resistance went global
Karen O'Toole reviews the highlights of the year

Revolution? You must be crazy!
Ian Birchall looks at what makes a revolution

Northern Soul
Screenwriter Lee Hall talks about his hit film, Billy Elliot to Ian Mitchell

Scandals, sexism and science
Books for Xmas

COLUMNS

Thinking it through
Chris Harman asks, was Hitler unique?
Stack on the back
Pat Stack looks at contenders for the Xmas number one

REVIEWS

Arts Review
Theatre, Film, Art The art and politics of William Blake, plus the new production by Theatre de Complicité
Books Review
Books reviewed include Paul Foot's new collection, plus Edward Said's book on the Intifada

Letters