The author reviews the recent White Paper, 'Working for Patients', and considers its implications for the future of health care in the UK.

Developing a case based on the 'automomist' tradition of Marxism, the author locates the origins of the international debt crisis in class struggle and places repudiation of debt on the political agenda.

This article sets out to explain the Central American debt crisis in terms of monopoly capital.

In this article the author seeks to demonstrate the relevance of Marx's theory of rent for an understanding of the 'oil crisis' in the mid 1970s.

The author reviews various treatments of the labour reduction problem, and argues for an approach which starts from Marx's concept of abstract labour.

Andrew Gamble: The Free Economy and the Strong State: The Politics of Thatcherism (Filio Diamanti) / Michael Goldfield: The Decline of Organised Labor in the United States (Christopher Schenk) / John Solomos: Black Youth, Racism and the State (Bob Benewick) / Ruth Richardson: Death, Dissection and the Destitute (Adelaide Leslie) / Roy Bhaskar: Reclaiming Reality (John Lovering)