Socialist

Review

CONTENTS

Inside front cover
Firefighters demonstrate

News Review
Editorial, Earth Summit, Gay Pride, Germany, Industry, Venezuela, Palestine, Martin's Web, Between the lines

Bush and Blair's war plans
Lindsey German on the problems for the hawks

The recession strikes back
Chris Harman analyses the downturn that won't go away

Liberty up against the law
Labour's attacks on human rights by Dragan Plavsic

The gene machine
Former Genome Project mapping director Sir John Sulston interviewed by John Parrington

One hand on the till
Solomon Hughes on the scandal of private pensions

Bottom of the class
New Labour is ruled by the market, says Nick Grant

Solidarity forever
Sabby Sagall celebrates British working class internationalism

The Walrus
Why the union right wing keep losing elections by the Walrus
Stack on the back
Pat Stack on why some in football are as sick as parrots

Arts Review
Theatre, Film, Art Mike Gonzalez on holidays, plus Tom Stoppard's theatrical trilogy, the Edinburgh Festival, and Sam Mendes's new film Road to Perdition
Books Review
Books reviewed include Six Days of War, Michael Rosen on Alan Gibbons's new book The Edge, and the strange case of Aldo Moro

Letters