Labour Review, vol. 4 no. 2

July–August 1959 · 16 items · about 33,868 words of machine-read text

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Contents

1. In Defence of Trotskyism · scan page 4
2. Marxists in Conference · By Peter Fryer · scan page 11
3. Political Resolution of the Socialist Labour League · scan page 14
4. The ‘New Left’ and the Working Class · By Cliff Slaughter · scan page 20
5. Scientifically – or ‘Somehow’? A Letter to a Friend · By Leon Trotsky · scan page 25
6. ‘The Origins of Sectarianism’, from Peter Cadogan · scan page 28
7. From James D. Young · scan page 30
8. The Boss, by Roy Lewis and Rosemary Stewart · Reviewed by Sam Reynolds · scan page 30
9. The First Principles of Industrial Relations, by A.E.C. Hare · Reviewed by John Byrne · scan page 32
10. The Yorkshire Miners. A History, Vol. I, by Frank Machin · Reviewed by John Peel · scan page 32
11. The British Political System, by Andre Mathiot British Pressure Groups. Their Role in Relation to the House of Commons, by D.M. Stewart Anonymous Empire, by S.E. Finer · Reviewed by Robert Sherwood · scan page 33
12. King George VI, by John W. Wheeler-Bennett · Reviewed by Douglas Goldring · scan page 34
13. A Short History of Germany (1815-1945), by E.J. Passant · Reviewed by Philip Wiener · scan page 34
14. The Personality of Jonathan Swift, by Irvin Ehrenpreis · Reviewed by S.F.H. · scan page 34
15. Communism and the Theologians. Study of an Encounter, by Charles West · Reviewed by Stanley Evans · scan page 35
16. The International Year Book and Statesmen’s Who’s Who, 1959, edited by L.G. Pirne · scan page 35