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Volume 20, Number 7 Editorial Correspondence James Klugmann, 16 King Street, Editor James Klugniann WC2E SHY Advertisements Editorial Board Doris Allison, above address Irene Brennan/Gabriel Carritt/ Orders and Subscriptions Jack Cohen/Maurice Cornforth/Maurice Dobb Usual Agents or Central Books Ltd., 37 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8PS John Foster//Arnold Kettle Subscription Rates Betty Matthews/Allan Morton/ £4.15 per annum UK and Eire Mike Seifert/George Wake/Nick Wright £4.27 per annum Abroad

CONTENTS Editorial Comments .. 201 Problems of the State: Dave Cook Parliament and Power: Part One.. 208 Bert Ramelson The Role of General Strikes Today 216 Discussion on the Popular Front: Eric Hobsbawm Forty Years of Popular Front Government 221 Discussion: G. Carritt ^ 228 Cyril Claydon V Socialist Democracy: Some Problems 230 John Tarver J 230 The front cover was designed by Pat Cook

SOME ARTICLES PLANNED FOR AUGUST AND SUBSEQUENT ISSUES Jon Bloomfield The Content of Higher Educational Teaching Doug Bourn Problems of Marxist History Dave Cook Parliament and Power: Part Two A. M. Elliott The Popular Front in Spain James Harvey Theories of Inflation Margot Heinemann Poetry of the Thirties Hans Hess Art and Social Function (his lecture at CUL 6 in 1974) John Hoffman Engels and Carlyle James Klugmann Reformism and the State Dave Purdy Post-War Crisis of British Capitalism Geoff Roberts The Politics of Rank-and-Filism Peter Smith North Sea Oil Gordon Wardman Social Work: A Communist View Jack Woddis Some Theoretical Problems of the State Charles Woolfson Culture, Language and Propaganda DOCUMENTS: Communist Party of Spain Manifesto—Progranune (extracts)

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