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CONTENTS

Inside front cover
a special offer from Socialist Review

News Review
Editorial, Transport, Civil Liberties, Pensions, Zimbabwe, Ilisu Dam Project, Between the lines

The return of empire
Colonial rule in the Balkans, by Dragan Plavsic

Palestine: a day in the life
Land battles by Neve Gordon

The movement stays on the streets
Anti-capitalism meets anti-war protest, says Lindsey German

A war without end?
Chris Bambery on the problems for Bush and Blair

'Tell Tony Blair to stay at home'
Interview with former Algerian leader Ahmad Ben Bella, by Anne Alexander

Desert dictatorship
Clare Fermont looks at the brutal Saudi regime

Theories of conflict
Discussion between Alex Callinicos and Luca Casarini

Poet of the granite city
Paul Foot on Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Reading matters
Books for Xmas

Thinking it through
Chris Harman on the logic of war
The Walrus
More privatisation problems says the Walrus
Stack on the back
Xmas greetings from Pat Stack

Arts Review
Theatre, Film, Exhibition, Picture Book, Art Gramsci and Rudyard Kipling
Books Review
Books reviewed include those on Corruption, LA in the 50s and Ireland's 'theme park' culture

Letters