Socialist

Review

CONTENTS

Inside front cover
Anti-nuclear protesters in Germany

News Review
Editorial, Food crisis, Elecrticity shortage, Italy, French elections, Anti-capitalism, Between the lines

SPECIAL FEATURES

Four years hard Labour
Clare Fermont on Labour's attacks on the poor

Dirty dealing, Yrui Prasad
Their profits our loss, Peter Morgan


Time to go
Liz Davies explains why she is leaving the party

More pain, less gain
Lindsey German on what's in store after the election

A force to be reckoned with, Chris Bambery on the Socialist Alliance

FEATURES

Wars without end
Imperialism and global capitalism by Dragan Plavsic

Enough to make you sick
Carlo Morelli looks at the role of giant corporations in the latest food crisis

Slip sliding away
Japan's continuing slump analysed by David McNeill

The people's opera
Sabby Sagall on the radicalism of Verdi's opera

COLUMNS

The Walrus
PostComm Prat, Privatisation of the post office
Thinking it through
A year is a long time in the world economy, says Chris Harman
Stack on the back
Don't cry for the poor old farmers, says Pat Stack

REVIEWS

Arts Review
Theatre, Film, Art including Bertolt Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan and Spike Lee's new film Bamboozled
Books Review
Books reviewed include ...Tony Cliff's selected works, a defence of John Pilger and Jonathan Coe's new novel

Letters