Pankhurst argues that state agricultural policy did not directly lead to the conditions that caused famine in Sudan. The occurrence of famine can only be explained by adopting an historical perspective on socio-economic and environmental change.
Paul Corrigan argues that more than any other part of Mrs Thatcher's privatization programme, the Education Reform Bill, sponsored by Secretary of State for Education, Kenneth Baker, will use the market mechanism for purposes of reactionary social engineering . Gerbil threatens to be 'popular' because it exploits a parent-child relationship which the left has seriously to examine.
The Soviet army has been beaten for the first time and Afghanistan will pass over to a reactionary Islamic fundamentalist state. The implications are as profound as the defeat of the USA in Vietnam . For this reason we publish Jonathan Neale's extended assessment.
Looks at South Africa's restructuring policies in a hitherto neglected context, its growing international links with the Asian newly industrializing countries.
Argues that recent debate about local economic policy has largely failed to problematize the state . As a result the political directions advocated by many contributors to the debate are highly questionable .
By grounding capital accumulation entirely within the credit system, thus abandoning the need for the assumption a money-commodity, dialectical method establishes the determinancy of money, and a demand-led theory of the rate of interest.
Terrel Carver: A Marx Dictionary (Paul Smart) / Antonio Negri: Marx beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse (Werner Bonefeld, Richard Gunn, Paul Smart, Hugo Whitaker) / Allan Cochrane (ed): Developing Local Economic Strategies (Mike Geddes) / Ron Ramdin: The Making of the Black Working Class (Clive Harris) / Laurance Harris, Jerry Coakley, Martin Croasdale and Trevor Evans: New Perspectives on the Financial System (Andrew Kilmister) / Chris Smith: Technical Workers: Class, Laborism and Trade Unions (Mike Hales)
