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14 MARXISM TODAY MAY 1988 RETHINK... OR DIE

There are still some socialists who insistthat nothing has changed. They grow fewer. But facing reality without blinking is only the start. Coming up with the answers is more difficult.

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26 MARXISM TODAY MAY 1988 28 MARXISM TODAY MAY 1988 50 years ago, A. L. Morton published his path-breakingd People's History of England; the book inspired a generation of brilliant Marxist historians- including Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Hill and Edward Thompson. Half a century on, the future of history is not so clear to see. BACK TO THE FUTURE will provide an opportunity to review the past, address the present and speculate on the future.

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36 MARXISM TODAY MAY 1988 Everything But The Girl • Idlewild

Trend-setters, lovers, idols of millions. Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn have constantly striven to bring unabridged sex and politics to the attention of a drowsy nation. Thrusting their heads once more through the mire of the pop industry, they arrive again with a new L.P of eleven wonderfully short songs, lovingly entitled "Idlewild". Recorded in London amid growing concerns that life was going on as normal it includes, for no apparent reason, their latest trendy single "These Early Days". Ben is heard to sing again, Tracey to sing even louder. The arrangements are spartan, the lyrics unprintable. At a recent United Nations Convention, a leading Head of State would only describe these new recordings as "impish and 'with it'". Too daring, too carefree, too naughty to take their rightful place in the polluted mainstream of modern popular music, Ben and Tracey ride on and on into the Valley of Death. Dare you hitch a ride with Everything But The Girl? They are so scary!

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53 MARXISM TODAY MAY 1988 54 MARXISM TODAY MAY 1988 CONTRIBUTORS on the politics of nature. Stephen Shenfield is a research fellow Robin Wilson is editor of Fortnight at the Centre for Russian and East magazine. European Studies at the University of Charlotte du Cann works (orElle Birmingham. magazine. David Brindle is social services Richard Dyer lectures in film studiesat correspondent of The Guardian. Warwick University. Andrew Thompson is a journalist Alison Fell is a Scottish poet, novelist, specialising in Latin America. editor and teacher of creativewriting. Ian Smart is a recently-elected Gill Da vies teaches English at Hatf ield member of the Scottish executive of Polytechnic. the Labour party and a founder Robin Murray is fellow of the Institute member of the Scottish Labour Action of Development Studies, Sussex pressure group. University. Judy Dempsey is Vienna correspondent for the Financial Times. Nicci Gerrard is researching a book on John Gee is an information officer at writing and publishing in the 1980s for the Council f or Ad vancement of Pandora next spring. Arab-British Understanding. Andrew Gamble is professor of politics Jean Barr has lived in Glasgow all of at Sheffield University. her life apart from a brief sojourn in Colin Chambers is literary manager of Florence - another city of culture. the Royal Shakespeare Company and is Doreen Massey is professor of a member of the CommunistParty. geography at the Open University. Mark Perryman was eight years old in Charlie Leadbeater is the labour 1968 and is a member of Marxism correspondent of the Financial Times. Today's editorial board. Stuart Hall is professor of sociology at Mary Ellison is lecturer in American the Open University and a memberof Studies at Keele University. Marxism Today's editorial board. Frank Mort is author of Dangerous Sexualities (Rqutledge and Kegan Additional contributions to this issue: Paul) and is writing a book about young Channel 5: Joanna Coakley men and the sexual politics of Production: Michael Daniels, Andrew consumerism, Boys'Own. Ellis, Chris Evans, Rikki Kelleher, Nicholas Green teaches cultural Gordon Milne, Neil Partrick, Chris history at the University of East Anglia Pate, Katrina Payne, Nicholas Pyke, and is the author of a forthcoming book Dave Wilson Research: Alfred Hermida

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