This article offers an analytical framework to understand the changing patterns of industrial relations under the Berlusconi administration. It argues that the Italian government is seeking to marginalise trade unions and exclude them from involvement in promoting economic growth and the development of consensual economic and social policy.

This paper offers a dialectical account of the cultural policies inside Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban. It situates this analysis within a discussion of global contextual conditions, which still aims to deal with the fine detail of the policy content of the cultural agencies involved and the everyday lives of the Afghan people.

'New Labour's' welfare reform agenda is explored through its aim of reconstituting the reserve army of labour. The emphasis in this project is upon ensuring that labour is as cheap as possible for capital to employ through various direct and indirect wage subsidies and requiring more benefit dependent groups to compete for paid employment.

In the immediate post-World War ii period, Japanese workers responded to a severe capital strike by taking direct control over important sectors of production and posing a new vision of worker-community based democracy. This article examines the lessons of this working-class upsurge for contemporary anti-capitalist struggles.

This article examines the aims of education and argues that Marxist economics should be taught as it does achieve these educational aims, perhaps better than the orthodoxy that currently dominates economics educational programmes.

What is the best strategy for redressing persistent inequality in South Africa? Given the extent and persistence of this inequality and a rich tradition of social protest, one could argue that neo-corporatism represents an unnecessary compromise in the South African situation. Nonetheless, neo-corporatism's track record underscores the role institutions can play in redressing inequality, while creating the conditions for economic growth.

As well as the much-publicised health and ecological risks of genetically engineered food, the growth of modern agricultural biotechnology raises critical issues of power and resource distribution. This empirical study probes these problems, and concludes that biotech capitalism—and probably biotechnology itself—cannot meet the need for democratic accountability and collective well-being.

This article aims to prompt the beginnings of a socialist and feminist critique of New Labour's policy on teenage pregnancy. This critique has two targets: first, the Government's reluctance to challenge the right wing moral agenda on sexuality; second, its unwillingness to tackle the social inequalities central to teenage sexual behaviour and decision-making.

Myths at Work; Bradley, Erickson, Stephenson, Williams (Bob Carter)
Invoking Humanity: War, Law and Global Order (Chi dice umanita); Zolo (Suman Gupta)
Hegemony: A Realist Analysis; Joseph (Mark Neocleous)
The Value of Marx; Saad Fihlo (Fred Moseley)
Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts; Mohan, Brown, Milward and Williams (Mahmound Messkoub)
Open Borders: The Case Against Imigration Controls; Teresa Hayter (Surhan Cam)
Agnes Heller: Socialism, autonomy and the postmodern; Tormey (Ian Craib)
Keynesianism, Social Conflict and Political Economy; De Angelis (Ana Dinerstein)