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From International Socialism, No.73, December 1974, p.7.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
OUR January number will contain an important article by Pete Glatter, The Busmen’s Rank and File Movement, which looks at one of the most successful of such movements ever to be built in Britain and shows the causes of its progress and its ultimate decline. The number will also feature Brian Parkin’s The Broad Left in TASS, a survey of its recent record. Peter Binns on The Theory of State Capitalism and the editor’s The Communist International and The United Front Tactic.
In hand, or in active preparation, are The Building Workers’ Charter Movement by a group of IS building workers, The Student Movement Today by Alex Callinicos and Simon Turner (scheduled for the February issue), Ian Birchall’s History of IS and The AUEW Broad Left: Promise and Performance by members of the IS AUEW fraction.
Chris Harman is working on two projects which we hope to publish in the early months of 1975. One is a critical look at the way many on the left fail to understand the changes in world capitalism that have taken place in recent decades. It will be based on a discussion of Michael Kidron’s book Capitalism and Theory. The other is a study of a decisive turning point in twentieth century revolutionary history; the German revolution, 1918-23, and its lessons for today.
Jim Kincaid and Colin Sparks are working on The World Food Crisis; The Politics of Scarcity, Paul Foot has promised an article on Shelley and Revolution and Tyril Harris one on psychology, politics and society.
In the slightly longer term we shall be publishing a major article on the outcome of the Chinese revolution, Nigel Harris’ Mao’s China After Twenty-Five Years. Finally, comments, criticism and suggestions are always welcome.
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