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May 2012 - In this issue...
THE POLITICS OF THE OLYMPICS
The London 2012 Olympics look set to be a jamboree of profiteering and nationalism. Brian Richardson recalls how past Olympics have been the site of struggles against racism. Dave Renton looks at how the promised legacy of London 2012 is being betrayed
Spring in our step
Mark L Thomas looks at George Galloway's landslide victory in Bradford West by-election and how it has sent shockwaves through Labour
Marxists are sometimes accused of only emphasising the importance of class. Sara Bennett considers why socialists argue for working class unity as the best way to abolish all forms of oppression
Resilient revolutions: Bahrain and Yemen
The Arab Spring is far from over. In the wake of the controversy over the Formula One race, Dominic Kavakeb looks at the movement in Bahrain, while Mirfat Sulaiman considers the uprising in Yemen
See the full contents of this issue.
Also this month...
Charlie Kimber sifts the results of the first round of the French elections
What has the local education authority ever done for us?
Terry Wrigley looks at why local education authorities are being sidelined in the Tory's scramble to create Academies
Nothing to lose but their chains
Riya Mary Al'Sanah looks at how Palestinian political prosioners are fighting back
Brian O'Boyle considers the growing anti-austerity movement in Ireland
Martin Empson explores the disturbing consequences of "fracking" and other sources of extreme energy
Can the Tories get away with regional pay?
The idea to introduce regional pay is an attempt to divide opposition to the government - but it could prove troublesome for the Tories
Colin Wilson discusses the lesbian feminist politics of the 1980s after the recent death of Adrienne Rich
Economy class: why competition breeds monopolies
Estelle Cooch explains how the competition of the free market leads to the creation of bigger, not smaller, companies
See the full contents of this issue.
This month's book reviews
The Arab Spring by Hamid Dabashi
Rebel Cities by David Harvey
Getting Somalia Wrong? by Mary Harper
Immigrants and Intellectuals by Daniel A Gordon
When the Clyde Ran Red by Maggie Craig
Get Real by Eliane Glaser
On Utoya edited by Elizabeth Humphreys, Guy Rundle and Tad Tietze
Classic read: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
See the full contents of this issue.
Art and Culture
Culture column:
Horrors of capitalism
Martin Smith has some fun watching horror film Cabin in the Woods
Obituary
John Arden (1930-2012)
Richard Bradbury looks back at the life of a political playwright
Films:
Marley
Theatre
Wild Swans at the Young Vic, London
Exhibition
Willie Doherty at Matt's Gllery, London
See the full contents of this issue.
#bestoftheweb
A brief round-up of some of the best things Socialist Review read on the web last month
Gigi Ibrahim has written a blistering reply on her blog to a widely circulated article by Mona El Tahawy that claims Arab women are passiev and Arab society inherenlty backward. As Gig points out, the experience of the Egyptian Revolution suggest otherwise.
http://theangryegyptian.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/mona-hate-us/
Historian Bryan D Palmer's review in Links Journal of a new collection of Lenin's writings offers a succints rebuttal of the old charge that Leninsm led to Stalinism and defends Lenin as a democrat.
Socialist Worker journalist Anindya Bhattacharyya has written an excellent balance shett of the Occupy movement for the Occupited Times.
http://theoccupiedtimes.co.uk/?p=3033
The Review31 website has a review by John Newsinger of a book which offers a new interpreation of Black and Tans and their role in Britain's war against the Irish independence movement.
http://review31.co.uk/article/view/37/quite-ordinary-men
For useful regular economic analysis of the crisis, austerity and the relevance of Marxist theory, check out Michael Robert's blog.
http://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/
From the archive...
Socialism and women's liberation
Sally Campbell argues that only socialism can bring women's liberation.
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