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Labour Focus on Eastern Europe

General Index. 1977 – 2004

Note: Where pseudonyms were used, authors real names are given first, with pseudonyms in brackets. Numbering from 1 to 74 is to clarify the correct order of issues since volume/issue numbering was not consistent through the period of publication. The journal was initiated and edited by Peter Gowan from 1977 until 1986 , by Günter Minnerup until 1991 and then by Gus Fagan until 2004. Copies are deposited in the British Library and in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

1. (vol.1 no.1, 1977)

USSRVictor Fainberg, The Case of Vladimir BorisovHalya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), Grigorenko asks CP’s aid for Ginsburg and Rudenko

CzechoslovakiaJiriPelikan, Charter 77: A New StageIvan Hartel, Musical underground in CzechoslovakiaInterview with Jan Kavan: Czechoslovakia in the wake of Charter 77

PolandPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), What happened in Poland in June 1976Documents:

1. First Appeal by Workers’ Defence Committee2. Appeal by Wladyslaw Bienkowski3. Letter from the Workers’ Defence Committee to the Sejm4. Complaint by 65 Radom Workers5. Letter from three poets in Łódź6. Workers’ Defence Committee Reply to Gierek

German Democratic RepublicGünter Minnerup Why was Biermann expelled?

RomaniaAna Klein (Anca Mihailescu), Human Rights group starts in Romania

Labour MovementInterview with Ernie Roberts, The trade unions and Eastern EuropeMarian Sling, The Committee to Defend Czechoslovak Socialists

ReviewsJiri Pelikan, Socialist Opposition in Eastern Europe, by Mark JacksonAndrás Hegedüs, Socialism and Bureaucracy, by Mark JacksonLiterature on the position of women in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, by Alix Holt and Barbara Brown

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2. (vol.1 no.2 1977)

Socialists and Human RightsJirí Pelikan, Socialists and the Helsinki Belgrade Conference

PolandPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Party, workers and oppositionEdmund Baluka, Myths and Realities in the workers’ movement

German Democratic RepublicDocument: Marxists analyse the new crisis in the GDR

CzechoslovakiaDocuments: introduction by Colin Meade (Mark Jackson)

1. Charter Document NO 77 on Social and Economic Rights2. Eleven ex-Central Committee members Appeal to European CPs3. Mylnaø Appeals to WFTU4. Petr Uhl Appeals to West European left

RomaniaAna Klein (Anca Mihailescu), Over 200 sign appeal as Paul Goma is arrestedInterview with Dumitru Tsepeneag, Virgil Tanase and Alain Paruit, The new opposition inperspectiveDocument:Romanian worker denounces repression

USSRAndrea Martin, Groups formed in four republicsDocument: An Appeal to Renault Workers

Labour MovementPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Soviet postal censorship raised in Union of Post-Office WorkersAndy McSmith, Tyneside trade unionists meet socialist oppositionistsJoe Thompson, NUS backs Polish and Czech opposition speakersPatrick Camiller, Union leaders call for solidarity with Charter 77

ReviewsRoy Medvedev and Zhores Medvedev, Khrushchev, The Years in Power, by Tamara DeutscherRoy Medvedev (ed), Samizdat Register I: Voices of the Socialist opposition in the Soviet Union, by Colin Meade (Mark Jackson)

3. (vol.1 no.3 1977)

PolandPeter Gowan (Peter Green), The course of eventsInterview with Jacek KuroñDocuments:

1. KOR Appeal following death of Pyjas2. Appeal forming Student Solidarity Committee3. KOR Statement following arrests

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CzechoslovakiaThe case of Macháèek and Lastuvka (from Listy, no. 4)Appeal to Federal Assembly (summary by Palach Press)Zdenek Mylnar, Charter 77Document: Letter from Jiri Müller to CPGB

USSRC. Levinson, Soviet Jews and anti-semitismDocument: Declaration of the Group for the Implementation of the Helsinki Agreements in the USSR (on the secret trial of Rudenko and Tykhy)

RomaniaExtracts from the Diary of Paul Goma: Audience with a central Committee Secretary

Labour MovementPolish Workers Defence Campaign establishedNALGO and Poland

ReviewsJohn Dornberg, Brezhnev, the Mask of Power, by Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald)Stefan Heym, Five Days in June, by Günter Minnerup

4. (vol.1 no.4 1977)

USSRMarina Voikhanskaya, Experiences of a Soviet psychiatristHalya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), The Klymchuk affairPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Student disturbances in Estonian city

CzechoslovakiaColin Meade (Mark Jackson), The trial of Chartists may start in SeptemberDocument: Charter 77 Document No. 12: On the Position of Writers

PolandPeter Gowan (Peter Green), Cross-currents after the amnestyDocuments:

1. Declaration of Workers’ Defence Committee (KOR) after the amnesty (July 1977)2. Silesian Miner’s Account

YugoslaviaDocument from the Praxis Group: The Meaning of the Struggle for Civil and Human Rights

AlbaniaColin Meade (Mark Jackson), The Albanian attack on Chinese foreign policy

Labour MovementHalya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), The growth of labour movement defence activity in the West

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ReviewsPaul Lendvai, Anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe, by Julie FederHeinz Lippmann, Honecker and the New Politics of Europe, by Günter Minnerup

5. (vol.1 no.5 1977)

Socialists and Human RightsEric Heffer Repression in Eastern Europe – A crime against socialism

German Democratic RepublicGünter Minnerup, Who is Rudolf Bahro?Interview with Rudolf BahroExtracts from Rudolf Bahro’s The Alternative

Romania: Ana Klein (Anca Mihailescu), Miners’ strike jolts CeausescuDocument: Three Letters from Romanian Miners;

CzechoslovakiaColin Mmeade (Mark Jackson), The trials beginDocuments:

1. Charter 77: Open Letter to Citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany Hit by the Berufsverbot

2. Statement by Petr Uhl on his arrest (29 Sept 1977)

PolandPeter Gowan (Peter Green), From defence committees to political groupsPawel Jankowski, Robotnik – a new workers’ paperDocuments:

1. Declaration of the Democratic Movement2. Declaration of the Student Solidarity Committee (SKS)3. KOR Statement in Solidarity with Chartists on Trial4. Gierek Briefing on the Polish Opposition

HungaryDocument: Letter from Hungarian Methodists Protesting Persecution

USSRHalya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), The news in brief

Labour MovementBritish students demand release of KlymchukBahro Defence Committee AppealAUEW protest against Charter 77 repressionLabour movement defence committee addresses in Europe and North America

ReviewMiklós Haraszti, A Worker in a Workers’ State, by Patrick Camiller

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6 (vol.1 no.6 1977)

CzechoslovakiaJan Kavan, One year of Charter 77Documents:

1. Charter 77 Statement on the Trial of Lastuvka and Macháèek2. Charter 77 Statement on the Trial of Ornest, Lederer, Pavlicek and Havel3. Letters between KOR and Charter 774. Charter 77 Open Letter to Heinrich Böll

RomaniaPatrick Camiller, Ceausescu sacks mine ministersInterview with Paul Goma

German Democratic RepublicGünter Minnerup, Growing campaign for Bahro and HavemannDocuments:

1. Statement by Jürgen Fuchs on the House Arrest of Robert Havemann2. Review of Bahro’s The Alternative by anonymous SED functionary

PolandPeter Gowan (Peter Green), Gierek bids for church’s handDocument: Warsaw Round Table Discussion of Opposition Activists

USSRHalya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), Arrested workers protest corruptionM. I. Holubenko, A workers’ writer in the USSRNews in brief

YugoslaviaVasa Pelagic, Transport workers strike in Zagreb

Socialists and Human RightsVladimir Fisera, Eurocommunism and Eastern Europe

Special Issue: Women (summer, 1978)

Edited by Barbara Brown, Susanna Fry, Alix Holt, Mary Rogers, Adela Rytka

Introduction: From the women's collective

Official ViewsWomen's OrganisationsInternational Women's day

The OppositionAbortion Petition in HungaryWomen and the Dissident MovementsCzech Case Histories

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News Items

Home and WorkHousing and ServicesWhy aren't Women at the Top?

SexualityBeing Gay in MoscowAttitudes to SexualityViolence Against Women

Birth Rate PoliticsBabies or JobsAbortion and Contraception

The Family

Reviews:Films: A Ballad of Two Losers (USSR)May I Take the Floor (USSR)A Day for my Love (Czech)The Apple Game (Czech)

Book:The Humanisation of Socialism

Further Reading and Acknowledgements

7. (vol.2 no.1 1978)

USSRStory of a workers’ group (from Amnesty International Research Staff)Vadim Belotserkovsky, Workers and employees in defence of human rightsHalya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), Moscow trials soon?

CzechoslovakiaMarian Sling, Testament to political bankruptcy

German Democratic RepublicGünter Minnerup, Carrillo calls for Bahro’s releaseJena Workers’ Story: Part I: Group of expelled GDR workers tell of their experiences

RomaniaColin Meade (Mark Jackson), National oppression in TransylvaniaVasile Paraschiv, A workers’ plan for independent unions

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PolandDocuments:

1. Student Solidarity Committee Statement2. Social Self Defence Committee Statement3. Letter from Edward Ochab and others to Gierek

Labour MovementPrague Spring anniversary conference in BrusselsBahro Defence Appeal

ReviewDissent in Poland 1976-1978. Reports and Documents published by the Association of Polish Students and Graduates in Exile, by Peter Gowan (Peter Green)

National Union of Students and Defence ActivityHilary Barnard and Nigel Stanley, The Labour Student Viewpoint.

8. (vol.2 no.2 1978)

USSRDocument: Soviet Trade Union Group Appeals to Western UnionsInterview with Vadim Belotserkovsky, Trade unions and workersPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Demonstrators win victory in Georgia

CzechoslovakiaJan Kavan, Political currents emerge within Charter 77Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), Sabata replaces Hajek as spokesperson for Charter 77Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), More Charter 77 supporters jailedDocuments:

1. 10 Years Since the Prague Spring (signed by Jirí Dienstbier, Ladislav Lis, Karel Bartosek and others

2. 100 Years of Czech Socialism (signed by Václav Havel, Jaroslav Šabata, Rudolf Battek and others)

3. Information to Parties of the Second International (by Jiri Müller)4. Open letter from Jiri Müller to Milan Hübl

German Democratic RepublicJena Workers’ Story: Part II: Group of expelled GDR workers tell of their experiencesDocument: Manifesto of the League of Democratic Communists of Germany (Berlin Oct 1977)

RomaniaDocument: Repression against Hungarian minority in Transylvania

PolandPeter Gowan (Peter Green), Appeal launched by workers’ group in KatowicePeter Gowan (Peter Green), Polish writers attack censorshipPawel Jankowski, Marxist manifesto calls for socialist democracy

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YugoslaviaDunja Vukašinoviæ, Managers take workers to court for complaint

BulgariaDeclaration 78 issued by opposition group

Labour MovementEastern Europe Solidarity Campaign launches appeal for Soviet GroupFrench unions speak outToronto-based campaign for Helsinki Group

9. (vol.2 no.3 1978)

USSREric Heffer, Labour and the Free Trade UnionistsJarko Koshiv (Victor Haynes), The Trade Union Association: Basic factsDocument: Statutes of the Free Trade Union AssociationHalya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), Orlov sentenced, Shcharantsky next?Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), Ginsburg for trialDocument: Hungarian Socialists defend Orlov (Statement by Ivan Szelényi, Maria Markus, Ferenc Fehér, György Konrad, Ágnes Heller, György Markus, Miklós Haraszti)Document: Letter from Aleksandr Feldman to the Morning StarBoris Weil, 10th Anniversary of the Chronicle of Current Events

CzechoslovakiaSpecial Supplement: Debate Inside Charter 77

1. Introduction2. Letter from Jan Tesar to Prof. Jiri Hajek3. Letter from Prof. Jiri Hajek to Jan Tesar4. Letter from Ladislav Hejdanek to a friend5. Letter from Lubos Kohout to Jan Tesar6. Letter from Petr Uhl to Lubos Kohout

German Democratic RepublicGünter Minnerup, Bahro sentenced to 8 years in secret trial

PolandPeter Gowan (Peter Green), Unofficial trade union committee formedDocuments:

1. Founding Declaration of the Committee for Free Trade Unions in Katowice2. Leaflet by Katowice Committee3. Founding Declaration of Free Trade Unions of the Baltic Seaboard

RomaniaVasile Paraschiv, Experiences of a socialist worker (interview)

Labour MovementPatrick Camiller, In retrospect: the labour movement and the invasion of Czechoslovakia

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ReviewJonathan Steele, Socialism with a German Face, by Günter Minnerup

10. (vol.2 no.4 1978)

USSRJarko Koshiv (Victor Haines), New support for Soviet trade union associationPatrick Camiller, Health worker gets 5 years for exposing psychiatric abuseYuri Orlov, An autobiographical sketchBoris Weil, To be a Marxist in the USSRDocuments:

1. Letter from L. M. Siry to Central Council of Trade Unions, Moscow2. Charter 77 Solidarity with Soviet dissidents: Letter from L. Hejadanek, M. Kubisova

and J. Šabata to Soviet Ambassador in Prague

CzechoslovakiaColin Meade (Mark Jackson), Invasion anniversary passes, crisis remainsDocuments:

1. Charter 77 Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the Soviet Invasion2. Joint Statement by Charter 77 and Polish KOR3. List of political prisoners in Czechoslovakia4. Founding Statement of the Committee for the Defence of those Unjustly Prosecuted

(VONS)Interview with Plastic People of the UniverseDebate inside Charter 77: Jan Tesar replies to the Debate in Charter 77

HungaryMiklós Haraszti, In the wake of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the myth of Kadarism

German Democratic RepublicDocuments:

1. Statement by Robert Havemann on the imprisonment of Bahro2. Charter 77 Statement in Solidarity with Bahro

An interview with Rudolf Bahro

PolandDocuments:

1. Secret party view of the opposition2. Peasant Committee Letter to Parliament3. Social Self-Defence Committee Communiqué on the Peasant Strike4. Statement from Lublin Peasants’ Self-Defence Committee5. Appeal of Lublin Peasants’ Self-Defence Committee

Labour MovementMarch calls for troops out of CzechoslovakiaEastern Europe Solidarity Campaign NotesTUC takes no action on repressed Soviet worker

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11. (vol.2 no.5 1978)

Human RightsLetter from Polish Social Self-Defence Committee KOR (KSS-KOR) to Defenders of Human and Civil Rights in Armenia, Bulgaria, German Democratic Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, Romania, and Ukraine

CzechoslovakiaDocument: KSS-KOR Appeal for SabataPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), New drive against Charter activistsInterview with Gertruda Sekaninova-CakrtovaDocument: Letter to the General Council of the Socialist International from Rudolf Battek, Jaroslav Meznik, and Jirí Müller

German Democratic RepublicRudolf Bahro, Letter from prisonGünter Minnerup, Robert Havemann speaks outInterview with Robert Havemann

USSRJarko Koshiv (Victor Haines), New Soviet trade union formedHalya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), New report on the fate of Klebanov and his comradesInterview with Leonid PlyushchPatrick Camiller, Soviet paper published anti-semitic attack

PolandJean Michel Caradech, The peasant movement: an eyewitness accountDocuments:

1. Report of Peasant Assembly2. Resolution of Sbrosza Duza peasants3. Sbrosza Duza Communiqué No. 14. Sbrosza Duza Communiqué No. 2

HungaryJanet Asquith, The political situation in Hungary

RomaniaPatrick Camiller, Regime terror against Hungarian activists and psychiatric abuse in Romania.

Labour MovementPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Left-wing defence bulletins in Eastern EuropeILO investigates human rights violations

12. (vol.2 no.6 1979)

CzechoslovakiaPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Who is Dr. Jaroslav ŠabataInterview with Jaroslav Šabata on Charter 77 perspectivesPolish KOR interview Charter 77 representatives

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Document: Charter 77 exposes nuclear power scandal

PolandPeter Gowan (Peter Green), Rising tensions in PolandDocument: KSS-KOR Appeal to the Nation

HungaryInterview with Miklós Haraszti

RomaniaPatrick Camiller, Ceausescu’s nationalist card

German Democratic RepublicLetter on the current situation in the GDR

Labour MovementNUM drops Klebanov caseFrench CGT and Canadian labour back KlebanovBerlin congress launches drive for Bahro’s release

ReviewRudolf Bahro, The Alternative, by Günter Minnerup.

Human RightsDocument: Appeal to Western Socialists and Communists by Soviet Civil Rights Campaigners in Exile

13. (vol.3 no.1 1979)

German Democratic RepublicDocument: Rudolf Bahro’s Second letter from prisonGünter Minnerup, Government retreats on military education

CzechoslovakiaJan Kavan, Charter 77 renews its leadershipThe Šabata Case

1. Speech from the dock2. Šabata’s lawyer threatened3. Interview with Šabata’s son

Document: Charter 77 Document on Romanies in Czechoslovakia: Part I

PolandPeter Gowan (Peter Green), Worker activist’s trial becomes test caseDocuments from the Peasant Movement:

1. Resolution of Rzeszów Region Farmers’ Self defence Committee2. Rzeszów Committee Communiqué No. 13. Communiqué from Zbrosza Duza Farmers’ Self Defence Committee4. Letter to Party Secretary from Zbrosza Committee5. Communiqué No 6 from Zbrosza Committee

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RomaniaPatrick Camiller, New trade union committee gets big response from Hungarian workersMihály Vajda, The Hungarian minority in TransylvaniaDocument: Founding Declaration of Romanian Trade Union Committee

USSRJohn Scobie & Helen Jamieson, 200 protest arrest of left oppositionists in LeningradUstymn Tyshanenko, Executions in MoscowOther news:- Medvedev, Agapova seek to stand in elections- Ukrainian activists under attack- Old Bolshevik (Arnost Kolman) diesDocument: Declaration of Free Inter-Trade Union Association of Workers (SMOT)

Labour MovementLabour leaders in new Bahro appealŠabata protestsNew moves in Klebanov affair

ReviewMarc Rakovsky, Towards an East European Marxism, by Wlodzimierz Brus

LettersDebate on boycotting the Soviet Union ( Tamara Deutscher, Ken Coates, Günter Minnerup)

14. (vol.3 no.2 1979)

RomaniaDocument: Statement from Romanian Free trade union movement (SLOMR)

USSRHalya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), The crackdown on Leningrad studentsVadim Nechaev, The Leningrad left opposition: A historyJarko Koshiv (Victor Haynes), The real life of Vladimir KlebanovNews in brief

PolandPeter Gowan (Peter Green), Attack on Kuroñ’s flat shakes Warsaw intelligentsiaDocuments:

1. KSS-KOR and Robotnik: The Strike Movement2. The Medicine Crisis: Open Letter from KSS-KOR to the Ministry of Health

German Democratic RepublicPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Tensions in regime produce policy shiftDocuments:

1. Statement by Robert Havemann2. Statement by Czech socialist exiles in solidarity with Robert Havemann

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HungaryBill Lomax, From intellectual theory to Samizdat practice

CzechoslovakiaColin Meade (Mark Jackson), Šabata given one and one half year sentenceDiscussion in Charter 77- Introduction- Ludvik Vaculik, Notes on courage- Václav Havel, Reply to Vaculik- Petr Pithart, Some people’s shoulders- Jaroslav Suk, Reply to PithartDocument: Charter 77 Document on Romanies in Czechoslovakia: Part II

Labour MovementInternational appeal for BahroLetter from black prisoners in USA about Crimean Tatar leader, Mustafa DzhemilevŠabata campaign

ReviewS. Kopácsi, Au Nom de la Class Ouvrière

Letters: Debate on boycotting the Soviet Union (Vladimir Derer, LauraStrong)

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CzechoslovakiaJan Kavan, The how and the why of the Prague trialBiographies of the arrestedPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), The Danisz affairInterview with Z. Mylnar: The international significance of the Prague trialInternational Appeal against trialDocuments:

1. Charter 77 Statement on Arrests2. VONS Statement on Arrests and Background

PolandAdam Michnik, Poland and the Pope’s visitJacek Kuroñ, The situation in the country and the programme of the opposition

German Democratic RepublicGünter Minnerup, Clampdown on writers continues

HungaryBillLomax, A chronology of political and intellectual opposition under the Kadar regime 1956-1978

USSRLetter from the editors of Poiski on suppression of literary journals

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Labour MovementCharter 77 Defence CommitteeFrench CP and Czech trialBahro defence campaign

ReviewVladimir Fišera, The Workers’ Councils in Czechoslovakia, by Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald)

16. (vol.3 no.4 1979)

CzechoslovakiaReport from VONS prisoner (Jiri Dienstbier)VONS steps up its activityNew information on arrested VONS membersEast European solidarity with VONSHungarians in Slovakia protest oppression

1. Introduction by George Schöpflin2. Letter to Charter 773. Liquidating Hungarian-language schools in Slovakia

PolandDocuments

1. Charter of Workers Rights2. Letter from Robotnik to World federation of Free Trade Unions3. Letter to Polish Parliament from 242 citizens and workers of Grudziadz 4. Statutes and Founding Declaration of Confederation for an Independent Poland (KPN)5. Interview with Leszek Moczulski, leader of KPN

German Democratic RepublicDocument: Robert Havemann's Appeal on 30th Anniversary of GDR

USSRHalya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), The struggle for trade union rights continuesDocument: Togliattigrad workers explain need for a trade union

RomaniaPatrick Camiller, All trade unionists all the time?

Labour MovementDocument: Labour Party National Executive Committee Resolution on Czech Arrests

ReviewsSafran and Czech musical undergroundKen Coats, The Case of Nikolai Bukharin, by Günter Minnerup

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17. (vol.3 no.5 1979-1980)

CzechoslovakiaJan Kavan, The October VONS trialCatherine Samary, In Prague for the trial

PolandPeter Gowan (Peter Green), Unofficial political life still flourishesJan Litynski (editor of Robotnik), The unofficial workers’ movement in PolandDocument: Founding Declaration of National Committee of Polish Socialists

German Democratic RepublicInterview with Rudolf Bahro, by Günter Minnerup

USSRPyotr Abovin-Egides and Pinkhas Podrabinek, The Democratic Movement in the Soviet Union (Part 1)

HungaryHundreds protest Prague trial

RomaniaPatrick Camiller, Democracy, Ceausescu Style

Labour MovementBritish labour calls for fact-finding commission on civil rights in CzechoslovakiaGus Fagan (Joe Singleton), The German right and human rights

18. (vol.3 no.6 1980)

USSRHalya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), The new crackdown on oppositionistsGus Fagan (Joe Singleton), The drive against SakharovPyotr Abovin-Egides, What is Poiski?Pyotr Abovin-Egides and Pinkhas Podrabinek, The Democratic Movement in the Soviet Union (Part 2)Susannah Fry and Jarko Koshiv (Victor Haynes), The Crimean Tatars: An oppressed Muslim nationAlix Holt, Women in RussiaDocuments

1. Programmatic statement of left opposition youth group2. Letter from the editorial board of Women in Russia3. Manifesto of Women and Russia4. The other side of the medal (from Women in Russia)

PolandPeter Gowan (Peter Green), The leadership crisisPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), The struggle for independent workers’ organisation in Gdansk

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Documents1. Leaflet to shipyard workers from Founding Committee of the Free TradeUnions of Gdansk region and Editorial Board of Robotnik Wybrzeza (Oct 1979)2. Leaflet distributed in mining area of Katowice (Nov 1979)

CzechoslovakiaDocuments

1. Charter 77 Declaration on Third Anniversary of Movement2. VONS Statement on Appeal Court hearing

HungaryThe New Mechanism: A Balance Sheet (Interview with András Hegedüs, Tamás Földvári and Zoltán Zsille)

Labour MovementJohn Platts-Mills QC, Report on trip to PragueLevko Dumianenko, Defence activity in CanadaSusannah Fry, ILO defends Soviet workers’ right to organise

19. (vol.4 nos.1-3 1980)

Special Polish Issue I : Solidarnosc

Introduction- A chronicle of Workers’ Solidarity, by Oliver MacDonald- The Polish Situation; background and perspectives, by G. Kolankiewicz

Solidarnosc Strike Bulletins- The complete Solidarnosc Strike Bulletins (including the two MKS statements before Solidarnosc commenced publication and the “21 Demands” of 24 August 1980)

The Gdansk Agreement- The full agreement signed by Solidarnosc and the government on 31 August 1980

Documents from Szczecin, Katowice and Gdynia- The Warski yard demands- Szczecin Joint Demands- The Szczecin Agreement- The Katowice Agreement

The farmers back the workers- Proclamation of Peasant Self-Defence Committee- Demands submitted by 17 village councils of Stegna

Building Solidarnosc- Founding Committee Appeal Gdansk- Founding Committee Appeal Lublin- Statement from National Delegate Meeting 17 Sept 1980- Draft Programme of Current Action

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The 3 October strike- Strike call explained by Warsaw union committee- Why the strike still goes on, by the Gdansk leadershipTrying to break Solidarnosc- Statement and Appeal by Social Self Defence Committee KOR, 25 Aug 1980- Open Letter to Shipyard Workers and all Coastal Workers, by Jacek Kuron- KOR Statement 15 Nov 1980- Statement by Presidium of NSZZ Solidarnosc Mazowsze Region, 21 Nov 1980- “On the present methods of prosecution of illegal anti-socialist activity”, by Lucjan Czubinski, Chief Prosecutor

Towards Self-ManagementSelf-Management, by W. Wypych and H. Szlajfer

20. (vol.4 nos.4-6 1981)

Special Polish Issue II: Solidarnosc in Action

December 1970Gdansk- Anna Walentynowicz on December 1970- Recollections by Kazimierz SzotochGdynia- ReminiscencesSzczecin- Stanislaw Wadolowski, From that moment I became an activist

A brief guide to the Party, Solidarnosc, and Catholic Organisations

Solidarnosc across Poland:

Gdansk- Interview with national vice-president, Andrzej Gwiazda- Interview with Jadwiga Staniszkis- Interview with Gdansk leaders and KOR

Szczecin- The August strike- Talk with Marian Jurczyk- Building Solidarnosc in Szczecin, by Oliver MacDonald- A Selection from Jednosc (newspaper of Szczecin Solidarnosc)

Warsaw- Discussion between Zbigniew Bujak (Mazowsze Chair of Solidarnosc) and the editorial board of NTO (Warsaw Bulletin of Solidarnosc)- A talk with Wlodek Wypych of NTO- Polish feminist group formed (including list of women’s demands)

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Katowice- Interview with Andrzej Rozplochowski, Chair of Katowice Solidarnosc

Walbrzych- Building Solidarnosc in Walbrzych, by Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald)

The political contextThe party- The anti-apparatus movement, by Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald)- Interview with Zbigniew Iwanow (leader of anti-apparatus movement in Torun)- Liklihood, barriers, methods, by Andrzej Zybertowicz (Torun)- What is to be done?, B. Rogowski (party member in Lodz)- The Nomenklature (detailed list of nomenklatura appointments)

The outside threat- Is there a threat from outside? by Jacek Kuroñ- Disorganisation of reservists in Ukraine, by David Slatter (Financial Times)- Reactions of neighbouring governments, by Suzanna Fry

The church- Talks between Vatican and Kremlin- Adam Michnik on the church- Protest by 48 priests- Statement by J. Onyskiewicz, press spokesman of Mazowsze region, on meeting with Cardinal Wyszynski

21. (vol.5 nos.1-2 1982)

PolandSolidarnosc: The Complete Programme (Adopted October 1981)

One Year after August: Discussion between Jacek Kuroñ, Jan Litynski, Bronislaw Geremek, Jerzy Milewski, Ryszard Bugai and Zbigniew Bujak (from Robotnik 79, September 1981)Jadwiga Staniszkis, Poland on the road to the coupZbigniew Kowalewski, Solidarnosc on the eveLech Walêsa, The final speech before his arrestPeter Gowan (Peter Green), Poland: The coup and afterGus Fagan (Joe Singleton), The life and death struggle in SilesiaGus Fagan (Joe Singleton), The new martial law regimePeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Conflicting responses of the Catholic ChurchInterview with Zbigniew Bujak, The aims of the undergroundDocuments

1. Communiqué of National Strike Committee 13 Dec 19812. Basic principles of resistance (leaflet issued by Solidarnosc in Katowice3. Communiqué from All-Poland Resistance Committee, NSZZ Solidarnosc4. Appeal to the Public (All-Poland Resistance Committee, NSZZ Solidarnosc5. Appeal by Krakow branch of Solidarnosc

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Labour MovementGus Fagan (Joe Singleton), Response of British labour movement to the military coup in Poland

Eastern Europe’s Peace MovementsGus Fagan (Joe Singleton), Unofficial peace movement in the GDR

Documents: 1. Berlin Appeal Jan 1982: Make Peace Without Weapons2. Charter 77 statement on peace

CzechoslovakiaDocuments:

1. Charter 77 statements in solidarity with Poland2. Statement by Group for Revolutionary Action, Prague, 15 Dec 1981.3. Statement by Charter 77 members in support of Irish hunger strikers

Jaroslav Suk, Czechoslovakia and Solidarnosc

YugoslaviaBranks Magas (Michele Lee), Yugoslav reaction to Polish coupBranks Magas (Michele Lee), Yugoslavia’s Albanian crisis

AlbaniaBranks Magas (Michele Lee), Albania’s party congress

22. (vol.5 nos.3-4 1982)

HungaryBill Lomax, The rise of the democratic oppositionArticles from unofficial journal Beszélõ

1. Strike on the Kispest building site (Dec 1981)2. Women don’t chicken out (April 1982)3. A Hungarian perspective on the Polish coup (editorial, April 1982. Original title: “On the deck of the Titanic”.)

Bill Lomax, 25 years later – new light on 1956Documents:

1. Ferenc Donath, excerpt from a letter to historian Miklós Molnár, June 19782. Imre Nagy, Letter to Ferenc Donath, 23 Nov 1956

PolandSolidarity debates strategy:

1. Jacek Kuroñ, Propositions on solving an insoluble situation2. Zbigniew Bujak, Positional struggle3. Wiktor Kulerski, The third possibility4. Jacek Kuroñ, You have an historic chance (reply to debate)5. Zbigniew Kowalewski, War of position and war of movement

Jean-Ives Potel, Solidarity and self-management

Eastern Europe’s Peace MovementsRobert Havemann, For a free peace movement in the GDR

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Charter 77, Open Letter to peace movementsBill Lomax, Pacifist movement within the Hungarian Catholic Church

German Democratic RepublicGünter Minnerup, Robert Havemann 1910-1982

CzechoslovakiaJan Kavan, Pro-Solidarnosc group continues despite arrests and provocations

YugoslaviaInterview with Arshi Pipa, Kosovo between Yugoslavia and Albania

USSRJohn-Paul Himka, The opposition in Ukraine

23. (vol.5 nos.5-6 1982-83)

Eastern Europe after PolandJános Kis, Thoughts on the future (from Beszélõ, May 1982)

USSRInterview with Zhores Medvedev, Yuri Andropov and his waysPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Russian socialists face trialReview of the journal, Left TurnVasyl Demchuk. Workers’ opposition in UkraineDocument: Open letter from Soviet peace groups to organisations in Europe and America

PolandJean-Ives Potel, A year of martial law in PolandPeter Gowan (Peter Green), Jaruzelski’s new unions – independent?Documents:

1. Dawid Warszawski, Letter to the left2. Open Letter to Western trade unions and workers’ parties from Solidarnosc Warsaw Inter-Workplace Workers’ Committee.3. Communiqués from Gdansk Solidarnosc October 19824. Letter of Lech Walesa to General Jaruzelski, 8 Nov 1982

RomaniaAndrew Csepel, Ceausescu tries CIA methods on workersKalman Garzo, An unofficial Hungarian view of Romania

German Democratic RepublicInterview with Simone LangrockDocument: Letter from GDR women to Erich Honecker

CzechoslovakiaPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Czech opposition continues to support SolidarnoscJirina Siklova, Socialists and illegal literatureDocument: Charter 77 Statement on the second anniversary of the Gdansk Agreement

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YugoslaviaBranka Magas (Michele Lee), Solidarity with Solidarnosc

HungaryBill Lomax, Police harassment of Samizdat activists

Peace MovementsE P Thompson, The Peace Movement and Eastern Europe (interview)Wolf Biermann, Disarmament begins at homeBill Lomax, The Hungarian Peace Movement

24. (vol.6 nos1-2 1983)

USSRJeff Gleisner, Old Bolsheviks discuss socialismRick Hellman, Andropov’s discipline campaignDocument: Letter, “To all people of good will”, from Pyotr Abovin-Egides, editor of Poiski (“Help me to save my wife and daughter”)

The Peace Movement in the German Democratic RepublicGus Fagan, The peace movement enters its second yearRudolf Bahro, The peace movement, the cold war and GermanyDocuments:

1. Jürgen Fuchs, Letter to European Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (END)2. “For a real peace without weapons”: “ from group of peace activists in Jena3. Letters to Erich Honecker from citizens of Jena4. Letter from Katya Havemann to Jürgen Fuchs

HungaryBill Lomax, Samizdat under siegeKivûl Alló, The role of dissident intellectuals (from Beszélõ No 4)Gus Fagan, Unofficial peace demonstration in Budapest

PolandJames Young, Repression and clericalism in KatowicePeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Normalisation – will the Pope help?Documents:

1. “Solidarnosc Today: A Programmatic Statement”, issued by Solidarnosc Provisional Coordinating Committee (TKK) 22 Jan 1983.2. Figures on membership of government-sponsored unions

CzechoslovakiaJaroslav Šabata, What path out of the domestic crisis?Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Charter 77 and peace – bad news in both blocsInterview with Zdena TominovaDocuments:

1. Charter 77 Letter to Peace Congress2. Letter from Anna Šabatova to the Minister of the Interior, on the medical harassment of her husband, Petr Uhl3. Letter from Jaroslav Šabata to E. P. Thompson: The Struggle for Peace and

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Eastern Europe (April 1983)

25. (vol.7 no.1 1984)

USSRZhores Medvedev, Andropov’s power and priorities (interview)David Holland&Ralph Kinnear, In the belly of the beast – Inside Radio Free Europe

CzechoslovakiaPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Sudden growth of nuclear pacifismAndrew Csepel, Official bunk about punk

PolandPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Government in quandary over trials of Solidarnosc leaders and advisersDavid Holland, Self-management without SolidarityDocument: Programmatic statement from Lech Walesa, Dec 1983

German Democratic RepublicGünter Minnerup, hard times ahead for the peace movementRoland Jahn, Unilateralism in the East (interview)Documents:

1. The Rostock Appeal (11 Nov 1983)2. Letter from Jürgen Fuchs (Appeal to Western peace activists)3. The case of Lothar Rochau

HungaryBill Lomax, The dialogue breaks down: problems facing the Hungarian peace movementBill Lomax, Harassment of opposition intensifiesBill Lomax, Avantgarde journal (Mozgó Világ) under attack

YugoslaviaLuka Markoviæ, Yugoslavia and the IMF: The league of Communists at the CrossroadsDocument: Ivan Jankovic, Open letter: Belgrade prisons – theory and practice

AlbaniaBranka Magas (Michele Lee), Albania’s isolation in post-war politics

Labour MovementJohn Cunningham, The cases of Klebanov and Nikitin

ReviewsW. Brus, P. Kende & Z. Mlynaø, Normalisation processes in Soviet-Dominated Central Europe, by Andrew CsepelCarmen Sirianni, Workers’ Control and Socialist Democracy, by Mike HaynesFerenc Fehér and Ágnes Heller, Hungary 1956 Revisited: The Message of a Revolution a Quarter of a Century Later, by Bill LomaxJános Kenedi, Do It Yourself: Hungary’s Hidden Economy, by Bill Lomax

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26. (vol.7 no.2 1984)

HungaryInterview with Sandor Racz, President of the Central Workers’ Council of Greater Budapest at the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. (Interview conducted by Sándor Szilágyi, translated from Beszélõ, No. 7 by Bill Lomax.)

YugoslaviaBranka Magas (Michele Lee), Yugoslavia between the IMF and socialismDocuments: A dossier of documents on the case of Radomir Radoviæ

PolandPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), The political struggle over working class organisationDocuments:

1. Letter from Andrzej Slowik, leader of Solidarnosc in Lodz, from the Barczewo prison.2. Extracts from the Memoir of Edward Skrzypczak, Communist PartyProvincial First Secretary in the region of Poznan

CzechoslovakiaDocument: An official report (unpublished) on the ecological crisis from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.

German Democratic RepublicGünter Minnerup, The round-up of peace activistsWolfram Hasch (jailed activist in Weimar), Self-critical observations on the East German peace movement

ReviewsStephen Woolcock, Western Policies on East-West Trade, Chatham House Papers, no. 15, by Fred HallidayChris Harman, Class Struggle in Eastern Europe, by Günter MinnerupTeodor Shanin, Late Marx and the Russian Road, by John MolyneuxL. H. Edmonson, Feminism in Russia 1900-1917, by Anna PaczuskaTimothy Garton Ash, The Polish Revolution, Solidarity 1980-82, by Boleslaw Sulik

27 (vol.8 no.1 1985)

HungaryDocument: Imre Nagy’s Secret Speech to the Central Committee of the Hungarian Workers’ Party, 27 June 1953.

CzechoslovakiaJiri Dienstbier, Pax Europeana (On the thinkable and unthinkable). (from Listy, no. 6, 1984)Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), Chartists debate history

PolandPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Jaruzelski back on the defensiveHenryk Wujec, Self-management and Solidarity (interview)

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BulgariaBranka Magas (Michele Lee), The persecution of the Turks

YugoslaviaBoris Vuskovic, The League of Communists and young people (interview, from NIN, 17 Feb 1985)

German Democratic RepublicDocuments submitted by GDR peace activists to the 3rd Disarmament Convention in Perugia, July 1984:

1. Fundamentals of a peace strategy2. A history of the peace movement in the GDR

ReviewsMilan Simecka, The Restoration of Order: The Normalisation of Czechoslovakia, Verso 1984,by Karla JoachimStrobe Talbott, Deadly Gambles, Picador 1984, by Ben LoweVictor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolution, and Victor Serge, Midnight in the Century, by John MolyneuxCarol Hansson & Karin Lidem, Moscow Women; Tatiana Mamonova (ed) Women and Russia, by Jill NichollsAlexandra Kollontai, Selected Writings (introduction and commentary by Alix Holt); Alexandra Kollontai, Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle (introduction by Lindsey Germain), by Lucy RobinsonRobert Munting, The Economic Development of the USSR; David Wilson, The Demand for Energy in the Soviet Union, by Mike Haynes

28. (vol.8 no.2 1986)

USSRZhores Medvedev, New leaders, old problems – new solutions? (interview)Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), New directions in Soviet WestpolitikTaras Lekhyj, The Ukrainian party congressColin Meade (Mark Jackson), Gorbachev and Eastern Europe

German Democratic RepublicDocuments:

1. Letter to Erich Honecker from initiative “Peace and Human Rights”2. Open letter from Wolfgang Templin, Ralph Hirsch and Peter Grimm (spokespersons for “Peace and Human Rights”)

PolandDavid Holland, Self-management in Poland: government and opposition viewsGus Fagan, Political groups in the Polish undergroundIvan Howard, New wave of repression in Poland

HungaryGyörgy Krassó, The Monor discussionTomás Bauer, Eight comments on the directives for the 13th congress

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RomaniaColin Meade (Mark Jackson), Recent trends

BulgariaJanez Staniè, Clouds over Bulgaria (from Start, Zagreb, Feb 1986)

AlbaniaArshi Pipa, Hoxha’s heritage

East-WestDušan Pirec, Europe’s nations put to the testJoško Palavršiæ, European Social Democracy and the USA

ReviewsMoshe Lewin, The Making of the Soviet Union, by Gus FaganGregory Fyynn & Hans Rattinger, The Public and Atlantic Defence, by Ben LoweM. Schaffer (ed), Technology Transfer and East-West Relations, by Gary HarmanRosemary Kavan, Freedom at a Price, by Karen JonesEdith Durham, High Albania, by Branka Magas (Michele Lee)

Nicolas Krassó – In Memoriam

29. (vol.8 no.3 1986)

East-WestPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Thinking big after ReykjavikEric Heffer MP, Peace, non-alignment, and democracy in Eastern Europe

HungaryFerenc Töke, The workers’ councils in 1956 (reprint of 1961 article)Gus Fagan, The possibility of compromise: István Bibó and the Hungarian revolutionGyörgy Krassó, A spectre is haunting BudapestDocuments:

1. Voice of the Hungarian Revolution (transcript of cassette reproducing broadcasts from Hungarian radio between 23 Oct and 7 Nov 1956)2. Demands of the Workers’ Council, 11th District, Budapest, 12 Nov 19563. East European opposition commemorates Hungarian Revolution: Appealfrom oppositionists in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, GDR, Poland.

PolandAndrzej Choniawko, Poland 1956: the Poznan uprising

USSRTaras Lehkyj, Chernobyl: the first forty days

German Democratic RepublicKevin Ball, New voices from East BerlinWolfgang Templin, Many thanks, professor (review of Herman von Berg, Marxism-Leninism, The Poverty of the Half-Russian Half-German Ideology)Document: Appeal to the Government of the GDR from the Independent Peace and

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Ecology Movement: “Chernobyl is Everywhere”

YugoslaviaBranka Magas (Michele Lee), The end of an era: on Serbian nationalism

ReviewsChristian Schmidt-Hauer, Gorbachev, the Path to Power; Zhores Medvedev, Gorbachev, by Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald)Donald, Filtzer, Soviet Workers and Stalinist Industrialisation, by Tamara DeutscherCraig Zum Brunnen and Jeffrey Osleeb, The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry, by Mike HaynesJulia Voznesenskaya, The Women’s Decameron, by Jill NichollsZhores Medvedev, Gorbachev, by Paul FootIsaac Deutscher, Marxism, Wars and Revolutions: Essays from Four Decades, by Julian SorrellRoger Woods, Opposition in the GDR under Honecker 1971-85, by Günter Minnerup

30. (vol.9 no.1 1987)

USSRZhores Medvedev, The January Plenum and Gorbachev’s Course (interview)Roy Medvedev, A panorama of cultural life in the USSR in 1986Sean Roberts, Soviet culture emerges from the deepfreezeInterview with Soviet left-wing activist Alexander Severukhin

Human Rights and SocialismPetr Uhl, Human rights and political revolutionWolfgang Templin, On Petr Uhl’s “Human rights and political revolution”

CzechoslovakiaAndrew Csepel. One eye on Husák and one on Moscow

PolandDavid Holland, The Polish cat-and-mouse gameDavid Holland, Emptier plates and bigger truncheons (review of Samizdat publication, “The Poland Report – Five years Since August”)

HungaryGyörgy Krassó, Writers in revolt

DebateBranka Magas (Michele Lee), The lessons of the Hungarian OctoberGünter Minnerup, Reply to Michele Lee

Review articlesThe Artful Albanian: The Memoirs of Enver Hoxha, by Arshi PipaBohdan Krawchenko, Social Change and National Consciousness in Twentieth-Century Ukraine, by Jarko Koshiv (Victor Haynes)

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31. (vol.9 no.2 1987-88)

East-WestPeter Brandt&Günter Minnerup, Eastern Europe and the German Question

USSRPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Perestroika enters a critical stageSean Roberts, New drive for quality reduces production and increases frictionAleksei Aleksandrovich Myasnikov, Open Letter to Gorbachev

PolandJadwiga Staniszkis, For a theory of “real socialism”Adam Michnik, The great counter-reformer

YugoslaviaLetter to the Editors of Labour Focus on Eastern Europe from the Editors of Praxis International (response to Michele Lee’s article in previous issue)Branka Magas (Michele Lee), reply to the Editors of Praxis InternationalBranko Horvath, The Kosovo questionDocument: Petition by 200 leading Belgrade intellectuals

CzechoslovakiaInterview with seven activists of Charter 77Hans Starek, Prestavba rules, but what is it?

HungaryHubertus Knabe, Hungary’s growing environmental problemsInterview with Ferenc Langmar, editor of Hungarian ecology journal, Vizjel

32. (vol.9 no.3 1987-88)

USSRAlexander Severukhin, The left unitesBulat Okudzhava, If Gorbachev takes risks, then why shouldn’t I?David Seppo, Economic reform and democracy in the Soviet UnionDocuments:

1. Declaration of Moscow Conference of Socialist Clubs2. Preamble to Programme of Club for Social Initiatives (KSI): a discussion document from an individual member of KSI

HungaryGus Fagan, Kadar’s legacy

German Democratic RepublicKevin Ball, Spring in Moscow but clouds over Berlin – GDR counter-culture

Poland“A voice from the left” - three articles by Leszek Nowak, introduced by David Holland

1. What suits the ruling trinity best is darkness (Sept 1982)2. If Solidarity is forced to dissolve – that’s OK (Sept 1982)

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3. Lessons of Hungary 1956 (1984)

YugoslaviaBranka Magas (Michele Lee), A new stage in the crisis

33. (vol.10 no.1 1988)

East-WestJiøi Dienstbier, A strategy for Europe – through Central European eyes

USSRZhores Medvedev, The state of Perestroika (interview)Roy Medvedev, The emergence of national problems in Soviet TranscaucasiaDocuments (from Tochka Zreniya, nos. 1 and 2/3, bulletin of “Social Group for the Support and Furtherance of Perestroika”)

1. On the foundation of the Social Group for the Support and Furtherance of Perestroika2. Some problems of internal political restructuring: : democratisation, glasnost, criticism and historical memory3. Declaration of the Historical Political Club “Obshchina”

PolandDavid Holland, Poland after the referendumJacek Kuroñ, Landscape after the battle (1987)Solodarity Provisional Council discusses “Landscape after the battle” (fromTygodnik Mazowsze, no. 220, 16 Sept 1987 – participants include Jozef Pinior, Henryk Wujec, Bogdan Lis, Bogdan Borusewicz, Zbigniew Bujak, and Jacek Kuroñ)

CzechoslovakiaAdam Novotny, After Husák: reform?

RomaniaGus Fagan, Misery under the “Conducator”

HungaryChris Corrin, Hungarian Glasnost?

German Democratic RepublicKevin Ball, Reaffirming the limits: resisting reform and democratisationWolfgang Templin, We shall be back (interview)

YugoslaviaBranka Magas (Michele Lee), Awaiting the futureMarijan Korosic, Condemned to the status quo (shortened version of speech to Zagreb students, Jan 1988, published in Studentski list, which was confiscated and destroyed by the authorities)Igor Omerza, A little ship on a blue sea (from Mladina, 8 Jan 1988)

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ReviewVladimir Vysotsky, Four Quarters of a Journey, by Agnia Mendeleeva

34. (vol.10 no.2 1988)

Eastern Europe SurveyMisha Glenny, Under the shadow of Perestroika

USSRPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), The 19th Conference and socialist democracyPiotr Siuda, The Novocherkassk Tragedy: 1-3 June 1962. An eyewitness account (introduction by Sean Roberts)Viktor Alexandrovich Gershfeld, interviewed by Tariq AliJeremy Lester, Perestroika in the provinces: the view from Bashkiria

PolandLeszek Budrewicz, What does it mean to be a socialist in Poland today?

CzechoslovakiaZdenek Mylnaø, The lessons of the Prague Spring

YugoslaviaBranka Magas (Michele Lee), Democracy and the national question

ReviewsJanina Bauman, A Dream of belonging: My Years in Postwar Poland, by Michael HindleyBoris Kagarlitsky, The Thinking Reed, by Sean RobertsRonald C Clark, Lenin, The Man Behind the Mask, by Tamara Deutscher

35. (no.1 1989)

USSRBoris Kagarlitsky “Power to he Soviets” means separating them from the Party (interview)Nikolai Osa, Report from ArmeniaArticles from Levyi Povorot (Left Turn), journal of the Federation of Socialist Social Clubs (FSOK), with introduction by Sean Roberts

- 19th part Conference: The Afanasyev Affair- Public meeting in Kazan- Popular Front in Estonia- Public mandate for the 19th party Conference- A political demonstration in Moscow (by Obshchina Moscow correspondent, Vladimir Potapov)- The Popular Front- Yeltsin’s speech to the CC Plenum 21 Oct 1987- Do we need an atomic power station?- Declaration of Founding Congress of Democratic Union (May 1988)

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PolandDocuments from the Polish Socialist Party, Democratic Revolution (PPS RD), introduced andtranslated by David Holland

1. Principles of Activity for the PPS until the Statutory Congress (14 Feb 1988)2. Communiqué of Supreme Council, PPS (14 Feb 1988)3. Statement of the Supreme Council PPS (22 Oct 1988)4. The Democratic Revolution (Tadeusz Rachowski, 22 Oct 1988)5. Communiqué of Supreme Council of PPS (19 Dec 1988)

German Democratic RepublicGus Fagan, The aesthetics of resistance: Women’s literature in the GDR, Part I.

YugoslaviaBranka Magas (Michele Lee), Will the centre hold?

Labour MovementEric Heffer MP, Mrs Thatcher is no friend of trade unionsGus Fagan, Gorbachev and the European left

ReviewTariq Ali, Revolution From Above: Where is the Soviet Union Going?, by Günter Minnerup

36. (no.2 1989)

USSRPeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Stalinism, the national question and separatism in the USSRJeremy Lester, The Baltic challengeTaras Lehkyj, On the current situation in UkraineMeeting Boris Yeltsin, (Transcript of question and answer session at Komsomol School of the Central Committee in Moscow, published in Leninets, 22 Dec 1988, translated and introducedby Jeremy Lester)Boris Kagarlitsky, The elections and Yeltsin

PolandJozef Pinior, Reform or revolution? (Discussion Document for the Polish Socialist Party (translated and introduced by David Holland)

YugoslaviaMilosevic crushes Albanian Intifada, (articles introduced and translated by Michele Lee)Jelena Lovric, Trepca on strikeShkelzen Maliqi, The Albanian Intifada

German Democratic RepublicGus Fagan, The aesthetics of resistance: Women’s literature in the GDR, Part II

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37. (no.3 1989)

German Democratic RepublicGünter Minnerup, The October revolution in East GermanyDocument: The Böhlen Platform. Appeal for a United Left in Germany

USSRBoris Kagarlitsky, The difficult path to the futureJ. V. Koshiv, First Congress of the Popular Movement for the Reconstruction of UkraineJeremy Lester, The continuing challenge from the Baltics

PolandDaniel Singer, The unfinished saga of SolidarityDocuments:

1. Statement by the Polish Socialist Party (RD) on the new government in Poland2. The Mazowiecki Programme and Us (from the Warsaw paper Warszawianka)

YugoslaviaBranka Magas (Michele Lee), Civil War in Yugoslavia

RomaniaAlexandra Laignel-Lavastine, The massacre of Romanian villages

38. (no.1 1990)

EuropePeter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Eastern Europe’s new self-determination problemRossano Rossandra, An unrepentant Communist (interview)Peter Brandt&Günter Minnerup, The European left in the 1990s

German Democratic RepublicGünter Minnerup, Kohl hijacks the East German revolutionPeter Grimm, The party’s line to power: East Germany’s SED embraces Western-style socialdemocracy with a vengeanceWolfgang Harich, For a united Germany, both red and green

USSRDocument: Democratic Platform for the 28th Congress of the CPSU (programmatic statement from “Democratic Platform”, an organised tendency within the CPSU), translated and introduced by Rick Simon

PolandMilka Tyszkiewicz, A Solidarity activists journey to the left (interview)Document: Programme of the Polish Socialist Party (DR)

YugoslaviaBranka Magas (Michele Lee), The League of Communists breaks upVeton Surroi, Kosovo and the struggle for democracy in Yugoslavia (interview)

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ReviewW. Brus & K. Laski, From Marx to the Market: Socialism in Search of an Economic System, by Andrew Kilmister

39. (no.2 1990)

Eastern EuropeDaniel Singer Prometheus rebound? The Future of Socialism in Eastern Europe Tamás Krausz The Conservative Revolutions in Eastern Europe

Poland Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald) A Survey of the Polish Right Grzegorz Francusz, Reflections on the Second General Delegates’ Congress in the region of Lower Silesia (introduced and translated by David Holland)

HungaryGus Fagan The Left in HungaryDocuments:

1. Charter of Left Alternative (from Eszmélet, March 1990) 2. How to organise a workers’ council (from Eszmélet, March 1990)

USSRDocument: The Marxist Platform in the CPSU (translated and introduced by Rick Simon)

UkraineDocument: Ukrainian Declaration of Sovereignty, 16 July 1990

RomaniaPatrick Camiller, After University Square: political divisions in Romania

YugoslaviaBranka Magas (Michele Lee), Yugoslavia goes into penalty shoot-out

ReviewL.A. Gordon & E.V. Klopov, What was it?, by Rick Simon

40. (June 1991)

Germany Günter Minnerup, German reunification and the legacy of German CommunismBertolt Fessen, The people and the power in East Germany 1989

PolandDavid Holland Poland in TransitionInterview with Karol ModzelewskiAppeal from the Socialist Political Centre in Wroclaw

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Hungary Gus Fagan, The collapse of Kadarism

USSRJeremy Lester The Nationalities Question in the Soviet Union Left-wing parties in the Soviet Union: three interviews from the Soviet journal, Dialog:- Mikhail Maliutin, Organising Committee of the Socialist Party- Yuri Leonov, Marxist Workers’ Party of Proletarian Dictatorship- Pavel Kudiukin, Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Association

In Memoriam: Eric Heffer, 1922-1991

41. (no.1 in 1992)

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)Document: CIS Founding AgreementDaniel Singer, The collapse of a superpowerJeremy Lester, Russia: A guide to political partiesDocument: Appeal of the Initiative Group for the Formation of a Party of LabourInterview with Vladimir Kondratov, member of Organising Committee of Party of LabourM. Nagaitsev, Trade unions in Moscow

CroatiaDrago Roksandic, The myth of “historical conflict”

PolandDavid Holland, The post-Solidarity leftAndrew Kilmister, The Polish economic crisisZofia Kuratovska, The left of Democratic Union (interview)Ryszard Bugaj, The politics of Labour Solidarity (interview)Interview with members of the Socialist Political Centre in Wroc³aw

GermanyGus Fagan, The Party of Democratic SocialismPeter Kammerer, Mezzogiorno in the east?

WomenChris Corrin, Women in Eastern EuropeSheila Malone, Abortion rights in Poland

HungaryLászló Andor, Conflict over economic strategy in Hungary

ReviewRobin Blackburn (ed), After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism, by Andrew Kilmister

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42. (no.2 in 1992)

RussiaRick Simon, Russian Trade Unions: towards neo-corporatism?Andrei Isayev, Trade Union Ideology in RussiaDocuments:

1. Declaration by the federation of Independent Russian Trade Unions2. Workers and Trade Unions Information Centre, Moscow, Monthly Information Bulletin, no. 1, January 19923. Workers and Trade Unions Information Centre, Moscow, Monthly Information Bulletin, no. 3, March 1992

GermanyRenate Hürtgen, Trade Unions in the ex-GDR

PolandRyszard Bugaj, Social Democracy in Poland (interview)Karol Modzelewski, What Happened to Solidarity? (interview)Documents (introduced and translated by David Holland):

1. Founding Declaration of Unia Pracy (Union of Labour)2. Statement by Union of Labour (UP Bulletin, 10 June 1992)3. Letter to branches of Labour Solidarity (Solidarnosc Pracy, June 1992)4. Twenty-one Demands: August 1992 (National Negotiating and Strike Committee) 12 August 1992

WomenSheila Malone, Women’s rights in PolandElena Mezentseva, Women in RussiaDocument: Founding document of East-West Women’s Network (Berlin 1991)

Eastern European EconomyAndrew Kilmister, Economic developments in Eastern Europe

ReviewsNigel Swain, Hungary: The Rise and Fall of Feasible Socialism, by Hugo RadiceRalph Miliband & Leo Panitch, Socialist Register 1992, by Peter Gowan

43 (no.3 in 1992)

Europe: East-WestPeter Gowan, The European Community and East-Central Europe

East European EconomyAndrew Glyn, Wages and reconstruction in Eastern Europe

PolandDavid Holland, Campaign in support of Solidarity leaderMilka Tyszkiewicz, Jacek Kuroñ’s New Economic Policy

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YugoslaviaCatherine Samary, The Yugoslav crisisChristian Promitzer, Political parties in CroatiaMilorad Pupovac, A settlement for the Serbs in Croatia

44. (no.1 in 1993)

Europe: East-WestPeter Gowan, The EC and its eastern NeighboursHugo Radice, Western investment in Eastern EuropeValerio Lintner, Monetary integration, recession and the LeftDavid Edye, Political strains in Western Europe: migration and race

HungaryLászló Andor and Tamás Krausz, Liberalism, nationalism and democracy in Hungary

RussiaAlexander Buzgalin, The Russian Left in 1992 (interview)

Poland Kazimierz Kloc, Industrial conflicts in Poland 1990-1992

YugoslaviaBranka Magas, The conflict in ex-Yugoslavia: A reply to Catherine SamaryLetter from Croatian Women’s Group

ReviewC. Smith and P. Thompson (eds) Labour in Transition: The labour Process in Eastern Europeand China, by Andrew Kilmister

45. (no.2 in 1993)

Special Issue: The End of Yugoslavia.

Robin Blackburn, The break-up of Yugoslavia: its causes, a new role for the UN and a policy for the LeftCatherine Samary, Behind the break-up: a civil war and not simply a war of aggressionMary Kaldor, The new nationalism in EuropeBen Cohen, The West and the war in BosniaKnut Mellenthin, Was a "Yugoslav solution" possible? Karl Kaser, The many nations and nationalities of Yugoslavia; Thomas Harrison, The arguments against military intervention

Reviews:Misha Glenny, The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War; Branka Magas, The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Break-up, 1982-1992; Catherine Samary, The Fragmentation of Yugoslavia: An Overview, by K. A. Wainer

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Appendix1. Brief chronology of Yugoslav history2. Main periods in the economy3. Basic statistics about the republics and provinces4. The military situation in Bosnia5. Addresses and bibliography

46. (no. 3 in 1993)

Commonwealth of Independent StatesPeter Gowan,The CIS and the world economyBoris Kagarlitsky, The democratic left in RussiaAlexander Buzgalin, Some comments on the programme of the Russian CPDocuments:

1. Programme of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation2. Statement by the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia on the Yeltsin coup.

PolandPaul Lewis, Poland's Democratic Left Alliance (SLD)Juliusz Gardawski and Tomasz Zukowski, What the Polish workers thinkDavid Holland, Solidarity breaks with the liberalsWho’s who in the SLED (from Gazeta Wyborcza (25/26 Sept 1993)

ArmeniaVicken Cheterian, Independent Armenia

ReviewAlexander Yakovlev, The fate of Marxism in Russia, by Jeremy Lester

47. (no. 1 in 1994)

Alexander Buzgalin, Russia after the elections Jeremy Lester, Zhirinovsky's party: the LDPR Petr Biziukov, Political situation in the Kuzbass in 1994 Vadim Borisov, Soviet-style privatisation: the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Complex Attila Agh, Eastern Europe's new elites Jane Hardy and Al Rainnie, Poland's economic transformation: The role of foreign direct investment and small firms Peter Gowan, German Ostpolitik and the revolutions of 1989/90 (Review article of T. GartonAsh, In Europe's Name)

ReviewsDavid McNally, Against the Market; Elmar Altvater, The Future of the Market, by Andrew KilmisterIstván Székely & David Newbury (eds), Hungary, An Economy in Transition, by Nigel SwainGlyn Ford (ed), Fascist Europe: The Rise of Racism and Xenophobia, by Bill MacKeith

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48. (no. 2 in 1994)

Peter Gowan, Germany's new role in Europe Gus Fagan, German foreign policy - The conflict over recognition of Croatia and Slovenia 1991Sylvia Kaufmann, German foreign policy - the PDS viewAndy Kilmister, German Democratic Republic - The lessons of restructuring Winfried Wolf, The Bonn-Paris axis under strainLászló Andor, The Socialist victory in HungaryRenfrey Clarke, The American AFL-CIO in the Russian Trade Union Movement.

ReviewsAndrei Markovits & Philip Gorski, The German Left: Red Green and Beyond, by Gus FaganJ. Edwards & K. Fischer, Banks, Finance and Investment in Germany, by Andrew Kilmister

49. (no. 3 in 1994)

Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian trade unions 1989-1993; Rick Simon, The labour movement in Ukraine Document: Russian Ministry of Labour Report - The Social and Labour Situation in 1993 Nikolai Prostov, Workers and trade unions in the Russian defence plant, Arsenal, in St. Petersburg Renfrey Clarke, Report on Budapest International Left Conference September 1994

Budapest Conference papers: extractsNenad Zakosek, The far right in Croatia Štepan Steiger, The far right in the Czech RepublicHelmut Konrad, Danger of fascism in Eastern Europe? Catherine Samary, Other voices from Bosnia Angela Klein, The PDS in the German Elections

Tariq Ali, In memory: Ralph Miliband 1924-1994

ReviewD. S. Bell, Western European Communists and the Collapse of Communism, by Kate Hudson

50. (No. 1 in 1995)

Lisl Kauer, Social Democratic parties in Eastern Europe Alexander Buzgalin and Andrei Kolganov, The Russian left in 1994 Boris Kagarlitsky, Social Democracy in the East: Doomed to be radical Kirill Buketov, Trade unions and politics in Russia 1994 Round Table: The Russian left debates the future Ken Coates MEP, Creating a European Left Vicken Chiterian, Solidarity in the Caucasus Renfrey Clarke, Public opinion in Russia and Eastern Europe Peter Gowan, The Visegrad States and the European Union Document: Five Theses adopted by the Fourth Party Congress of the PDS

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ReviewsBarbara Einhorn, Cinderella Goes to Market, by Susan ZimmermannAnastasia Posadskaya (ed) Women in Russia. A New Era of Russian Feminism, by Sheila Malone

51. (No. 2 in 1995)

Bob Arnot, Survey: The Russian economy in 1995 David Mandel, The Russian working class, privatisation and labour management relations inthe fourth year of shock therapy Joerg Roesler, Privatisation of East German industry: Its economic and social implications Nigel Swain, Decollectivising agriculture in the Visegrad States Andy Kilmister, Privatisation in Eastern Europe: The debate Peter Gowan, Liberals versus neo-liberals: A critical look at recent writings on civil society

52. (No. 3 in 1995)

David Holland, Poland's presidential elections in 1995 Documents: Election Statements from Kwasniewski, Kuroñ and Zielinski The Ex-Solidarity left (from Nowa Lewica, April 1995) Jan Sylwestrowicz, Capitalist restoration in Poland: A balance sheet David Mandel, The Russian labour movement and politics Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian trade unions and the parliamentary elections of 1995 Marko Bojcun, Ukraine under the Kuchma presidency László Andor, The role of the external debt in Hungary's transition Documents

1. Against NATO intervention in former Yugoslavia: Letter to the Prime Minister from British Labour MPs 2. A statement on the war in former Yugoslavia by Labour Action for Peace3. PDS Statement against military intervention in former Yugoslavia

Review article: János Kornai, The Socialist System, by Tamás Krausz

53. (No. 1 in 1996)

Peter Truscott MEP, The Russian elections: the end of Yeltsin and the return of Communism? Boris Kagarlitsky, Russia between elections (interview) Grigorii Artemenko, The left in Ukraine Rick Simon, The miners' strike in Russia and Ukraine David Holland, Dirty politics in Poland Susan Zimmermann, Hungary's new left Document: Declaration of Principles: Left Platform in the Hungarian Socialist Party Kirill Privezentsev, The Greens and the labour movement in Russia: An experiment in co-operation Johan Galtung, NATO goes east (interview)

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Review articlesT. Lars, O. V. Khlevniuk & O. V. Naumov (eds) Stalin’s letters to Molotov, by Támas KrauszJános Kornai, The Socialist System, by Andrew Kilmister

54. (No. 2 in 1996)

Catherine Samary, The Yugoslav crisis: A view from the left Michel Chossudovsky, Dismantling former Yugoslavia: recolonising Bosnia Document: The Dayton Peace Agreement Anna Pollert, The revival of Czech Social Democracy Kate Hudson, Social Democracy in Hungary Lászlo Andor, Trade unions in Hungary 1988-1996 Christine Engel, Literature in Eastern Europe after the turn to the market

ReviewsD. Gross & A. Steinherr, Winds of Change: Transition in Central and Eastern Europe, by Andrew KilmisterArchie Brown, The Gorbachev Factor, by Rick SimonJeremy Lester, Modern Tsars and Princes, by Bob Arnot

55. (No. 3 in 1996)

Trade Unions in East Central Europe Anna Pollert, Trade unionism in the Czech Republic Julian Bartosz, Polish trade unions: caught up in the political battle Rainer Girndt, Hungary's trade unions: division and decline David Mandel, A Ukrainian trade union in the transition to the marketJeremy Lester, The defeat of Zyuganov and the Communists in Russia's presidential elections Kate Hudson, Russian cinema after the turn to the market

56. (No. 1 in 1997)

The European Left and EU Enlargement Peter Gowan, The dynamics of European enlargement Michael Newman, The Party of European Socialists and EU enlargement to the east Mary Brennan, NATO expansion into Eastern Europe Catherine Samary, The politics of budgetary issues: CAP and structural funds Lászlo Andor, EU enlargement and the Hungarian left David Holland, The Polish left and EU enlargement Gus Fagan, The German PDS and EU/NATO expansion Vladimir Shimanovich, The political crisis in Belarus

57. (No. 2 in 1997)

James Pettifer, The Albanian upheaval: kleptocracy and the post-Communist state Michel Chossudovsky, The Albanian crisis and the West Peter Truscott MEP, Russia First: A new school of thought in Russia

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Tadeusz Kowalik, The Polish August: A bourgeois epigone revolution Vassilis Fouskas, The European strategy of the Italian left Colin Meade, Blair and Jospin: Social Democracy in France and Britain Fausto Bertinotti, Report to Congress of Italy’s Rifondazione Comunista Gus Fagan, In memory: Piotr Egides 1917-1997

58. (No. 3 in 1997)

Peter Gowan, The dangers of facade cosmopolitanism David Chandler, Globalisation and minority rights: How ethical foreign policy recreates the East-West divide Ken Livingstone, Democracy versus the market in the globalised economy David Mandel, Unions in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: A case study Renfrey Clarke, Public opinion in Russia in 1997

ReviewsDavid L. Bartlett, The Political Economy of Dual Transformation: Market Reform and Democratisation in Hungary, by Lászlo AndorDavid Kotz & Fred Weir, Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System, by Gus FaganG. Standing, Unemployment and Enterprise Restructuring: Reviving Dead Souls, by Andrew KilmisterD. Deletant, Ceausescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania 1965-1989, by Kate Hudson

59. (No. 1 in 1998)

Janos Sjöstedt, Alternatives to EU enlargement Petr Uhl, The eastward expansion of EU and NATO Peter Gowan, Enlargement: The uncertainties remain Janos Jemnitz, The Hungarian Socialist Party after four years in power Štepan Šteiger, The Czech left in election year 1998 Boris Kagarlitsky, Five years of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Tadeusz Kowalik, The systematic conditioning of Polish social policy Peter Truscott MEP, Russia’s future role in Europe Kate Hudson, The left in Europe Alan Freeman, GATT and the World Trade Organisation Patrick Baker, Conflict in Spain’s United Left

ReviewLászló Andor & Martin Summers, Market Failure: Eastern Europe’s “Economic Miracle”, by Andrew Kilmister

60. (no. 2 in 1998)

Karen Henderson, Social Democracy comes to power in the 1998 Czech elections László Andor, New striker in old team: the 1998 parliamentary elections in Hungary Marek Torunski, Poland 1968: The death of Jewish culture in Poland

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Tatiana Zhurzhenko, Ukrainian women in the transition Adam Swain, Dismantling the coal mining industry in Ukraine

Review articleDonald Sassoon, One Hundred Years of Socialism, by Boris Kagarlitsky

61. (no. 3 in 1998)

Boris Kagarlitsky, The IMF and the Russian crisis Michel Chossudovsky, The G7 solution to the global financial crisis: A Marshall Plan for creditors and speculators Isaac Bigio, The successor parties in Eastern Europe: From Social Democracy to National Communism Gerhard Jordan, The Greens in Eastern Europe David Mandel, Russia: revolution, counter-revolution and the working class. Reflections on the 80th anniversary of the 1917 revolution

62 (no. 1 in 1999)

Peter Gowan, The Twisted Road to Kosovo: The Political Origins of the NATO Attack on Yugoslavia

Introduction: The Yugoslav anvil for forging the New Europe Part I. National rights and international powers in Yugoslavia’s dismemberment Part II. The Euro-Atlantic origins of NATO’s attack on Yugoslavia 1. Introduction 2. Explaining intra-NATO policies 3. NATOland programmes and power politics after the collapse 4. Key phases of the American campaign 5. From compromise to Kosovo 6. Conclusion

63 (no. 2 in 1999)

NATO’s Unjust and Illegal War Diana Johnstone, Notes on the Kosovo problem and the international community Diana Johnstone, NATO’s humanitarian trigger Gilbert Achcar, Where the humanitarian supporters of NATO get it wrong Michael Barratt-Brown, A briefing on Kosovo Immanuel Wallerstein, Bombs away! László Andor, Some information on Hungary’s response to the war in Yugoslavia Michel Chossudovsky, Lawyers charge NATO before War Crimes Tribunal

Appeals, Statements, Documents: 1. UK and International: Open Letter to Heads of NATO Governments 2. French Appeal: Stop the Bombing, Self-Determination 3. Serbian NGOs: Appeal by Serbian NGOs 4. Eco-Appeal: Serbia Threatened with Ecological Disaster 5. Oskar Lafontaine: May-Day Speech on Yugoslavia

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6. Elmar Altvater: Letter to German Greens 7. German Greens: Special Conference Resolution on Yugoslavia 8. German PDS: Peace Plan for Yugoslavia 9. German Foreign Ministry Documents on the humanitarian situation in Kosovo 10. Rambouillet Agreement: Appendix B: Status of Multi-National Implementation Force.

64 (no. 3 in 1999)

Vicken Chiterian, The Russian military in the second Chechen warRenfrey Clarke&Boris Kagarlitsky, Chechnya: Russia’s East Timor Peter Gowan, Kosovo: The war and its aftermath Ken Coates, After the war in Yugoslavia: What next for the European left? Andrew Kilmister, Comment: The Kosovo Albanians and the break-up of Yugoslavia Gregor Gysi, Twelve Theses for a modern Socialist policy: A response to the Blair/Schröder Manifesto Boris Kagarlitsky, The prospects for socialism (or barbarism)

Review Peter Gowan, The Global Gamble: Washington’s Faustian Bid for World Dominance (Verso 1999) by Andrew Kilmister

65 (no. 1 in 2000)

Ken Coates, Will this be the short millennium? US and Russian military policy in the third nuclear age Mary Brennan, European security: choices, threats and opportunities Peter Gowan, Peripheralisation of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s László Andor, Knocking on Europe’s door: The costs of delay in EU’s eastward enlargement Kenneth McRobbie, György Lukács: From the rubbish heap to just off centre

Reviews: Anna Pollert, Transformation at Work in the New Market Economies of Eastern Europe, by Andy Kilmister Rosalind Marsh (ed.), Women in Russia and Ukraine, by Pieta Monks

66 (no. 2 in 2000)

Noam Chomsky, The end of the Miloševic regime Anna Pollert, The Czech labour movement a decade after 1989 David Mandel, Trade unions in Ukraine: A case study Boris Kagarlitsky, Putin’s Russia: The oligarchs, the labour movement and the Chechen war Sonja Lokar, Women in Eastern Europe: five theses Stephen Day, Poland: From SdRP to SLD Urszula Lugowska, The Polish Socialist Party and the radical left in Poland Zarko Puhovski, The real danger in the Balkans

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67 (no. 3 in 2000)

Boris Kagarlitsky, The Post-Soviet left Jane Hardy, East-West integration and value chains in Poland: Rethinking the core-periphery Peter Gowan, The EU and the unsettled future of the East

Review: Kate Hudson, European Communism Since 1989, by Gus Fagan

68 (no. 1 in 2001)

Anna Pollert, Gender relations, equal opportunities and women in transition in Eastern Europe Andy Kilmister, Industrial restructuring in Poland Boris Kagarlitsky, Globalisation and Russia Christoph Jünke, The will to struggle: Boris Kagarlitsky’s appeal for a new socialist left Russian labour at the end of 2000- News briefs (from Le messager syndical, Dec. 200)- Interview with Konstantin Fedotov, Russian Longshoremen’s Union- Speech by A. Sergeev to Independent Union of Miners (extracts)Document. German PDS statement on the 40th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall,13 August 1961.

69 (no. 2 in 2001)

Urszula Lugowska, Parliamentary elections in Poland 2001: What next for ‘Self-Defence’? Karol Modzelewski, The populist right in the Polish elections (interview) Guglielmo Meardi, Neoliberal models and mirages in Polish industrial relations Boris Kagarlitsky, Belarus: A post-Soviet Jurassic Park? David Chandler, Democracy or dictatorship: Belarus presidential elections 2001 Peter Gowan, The EU’s human rights diplomacy: A survey

Reviews: Anna Politkovskaya, A Dirty War (2001) by Sheila Malone; László Andor, Hungary on the Road to the European Union (2000) by Andy Kilmister

Michel Löwy, Remembering Daniel Singer

70 (no. 3 in 2001)

David Mandel, The trade union movement in Belarus Vladimir Zlenko, Trade unions in Ukraine Frank Hantke, Poland’s trade unions: decline and division Béla Galgóczi, Hungary, trade unions in the period of transformation Pieta Monks, Educational reform in Russia László Andor, Hungarian agriculture after the transition

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Kenneth McRobbie, The significance of the Memoirs of Ilona DuczynskaDocument: Swedish Left Party report: EU Enlargement and the Common Agricultural Policy

Review: G Carchedi, For Another Europe: A Class Analysis of European Economic Integration, by Andrew Kilmister

71 (no. 1 in 2002)

Peter Gowan, Western Europe in the face of the Bush campaign Beate Andrees, “Post-Modern” warlords and transnational networks: the difficulties of peacekeeping in Kosovo Boris Kagarlitsky, “Political Capitalism” and corruption in Russia László Andor, The Victory of the left in the Hungarian elections

ReviewsDavid Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention, by Sheila MaloneMary Farrell, Stefano Fella & Mike Newman (eds), European Integration in the 21st Century, by Steve McGiffen

72 (no. 2 in 2002)

The Non-Communist Left in PolandFilip Stabrowski, Poland’s Union of Labour: Dilemma of the non-Communist left in post-Communist Poland Urzula Lugowska, Samoobrona against the establishmentTadeusz Kowalik, Loyalty to oneself: An appreciation of Wlodzimierz Brus

ReviewBoris Kagarlitsky, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin: Neo-liberal Autocracy (2002), by Rick Simon

73/74 (no. 3 in 2002 & no. 1 in 2003)

László Andor, Hungary and the war against Iraq Boris Kagarlitsky, The Russian elections 2003 and the role of the Communist Party of the Russian federationGavin Rae, Poland’s Social Democracy: Failure of third way politics Colin Meade, Populist replaces playwright as Czech president Catherine Samary, The divorce between society and political leadership: Old and new Europe against war Peter Gowan, The Bush strategy and the idea of overstretch Michael Newman, Britain, the USA and the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968

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75/76 (nos. 2 & 3, 2003)

The eastward enlargement of the European UnionLászlo Andor, The euro in East-Central EuropeHelen Morris, Enlargement and minoritiesHeather Grabbe, How enlargement will change the European UnionMilica Uvalic, The impact of enlargement on south-east EuropeBrendan Young, The EU constitutions and GATSHugo Radice, Globalisation, regionalisation, and restoration: the political economy of east-central EuropeDavid Harvey, The new imperialism (interview)Peter Gowan, Europe and the new imperialismWinfried Wolf, The EU on the road to military powerUrsula Lugowska, The anti-globalisation movement in PolandColin Meade, On the virtual emperor

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