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The initiative for Labour Focus came from Peter Gowan and his partner, Halya Kowalsky. The events in Poland in 1976 and the creation of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia convinced them that it was essential for the left in the West to offer support and solidarity to those working class and democratic oppositionists in Eastern Europe suffering repression from the Communist Party regimes and to inform the working class movement and socialists in the West about the existence of these groups which were ignored by governments and media unless they were able to exploit them for Cold War purposes. Peter had already argued in an article in New Left Review in 1977 that these events and their political dynamic had significance for Eastern Europe as a whole and that this dynamic had produced "a highly explosive conjuncture in Poland and one that will increasingly demand the attention of the revolutionary left throughout Europe". (The Third Round in Poland, NLR 102, 1977, p70). 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. [Read the full introduction here]
Labour Focus on Eastern Europe 1977-2004 country index
Labour Focus on Eastern Europe 1977-2004 chronological index
Special Dossier Charter 77 Political Unemployment (1978)
Special Women's Issue (1978) (see below)
Supplement No 1 Nicolas Krasso Interview
Supplement No. 2 Petr Uhl Interview (1979)
#1, Vol. 1, No. 1, March-April 1977
USSR
Victor Fainberg, The Case of Vladimir Borisov
Halya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), Grigorenko asks CP’s aid for Ginsburg and Rudenko
Czechoslovakia
Jiri Pelikan, Charter 77: A New Stage
Ivan Hartel, Musical underground in Czechoslovakia
Interview with Jan Kavan: Czechoslovakia in the wake of Charter 77
Poland
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), What happened in Poland in June 1976?
Documents:
1. First Appeal by Workers’ Defence Committee
2. Appeal by Wladyslaw Bienkowski
3. Letter from the Workers’ Defence Committee to the Sejm
4. Complaint by 65 Radom Workers
5. Letter from three poets in Lódz
6. Workers’ Defence Committee Reply to Gierek
German Democratic Republic
Günter Minnerup Why was Biermann expelled?
Romania
Ana Klein (Anca Mihailescu), Human Rights group starts in Romania
Labour Movement
Interview with Ernie Roberts, The trade unions and Eastern Europe
Marian Sling, The Committee to Defend Czechoslovak Socialists
Reviews
Jiri Pelikan, Socialist Opposition in Eastern Europe, by Mark Jackson
András Hegedüs, Socialism and Bureaucracy, by Mark Jackson
Literature on the position of women in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, by Alix Holt and Barbara Brown
#2, Vol. 1, No. 2, May-June 1977
Socialists and Human Rights
Jirí Pelikan, Socialists and the Helsinki Belgrade Conference
Poland
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Party, workers and opposition
Edmund Baluka, Myths and Realities in the workers’ movement
German Democratic Republic
Document: Marxists analyse the new crisis in the GDR
Czechoslovakia
Documents: introduction by Colin Meade (Mark Jackson)
1. Charter Document NO 77 on Social and Economic Rights
2. Eleven ex-Central Committee members Appeal to European CPs
3. Mylnar Appeals to WFTU
4. Petr Uhl Appeals to West European left
Romania
Ana Klein (Anca Mihailescu), Over 200 sign appeal as Paul Goma is arrested
Interview with Dumitru Tsepeneag, Virgil Tanase and Alain Paruit, The new opposition in perspective
Document:Romanian worker denounces repression
USSR
Andrea Martin, Groups formed in four republics
Document: An Appeal to Renault Workers
Labour Movement
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Soviet postal censorship raised in Union of Post-Office Workers
Andy McSmith, Tyneside trade unionists meet socialist oppositionists
Joe Thompson, NUS backs Polish and Czech opposition speakers
Patrick Camiller, Union leaders call for solidarity with Charter 77
Reviews
Roy Medvedev and Zhores Medvedev, Khrushchev, The Years in Power, by Tamara Deutscher
Roy Medvedev (ed), Samizdat Register I: Voices of the Socialist opposition in the Soviet Union, by Colin Meade (Mark Jackson)
#3, Vol. 1, No. 3, July-August 1977
Poland
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), The course of events
Interview with Jacek Kuroñ
Documents:
1. KOR Appeal following death of Pyjas
2. Appeal forming Student Solidarity Committee
3. KOR Statement following arrests
Czechoslovakia
The case of Macháèek and Lastuvka (from Listy, no. 4)
Appeal to Federal Assembly (summary by Palach Press)
Zdenek Mylnar, Charter 77
Document: Letter from Jiri Müller to CPGB
USSR
C. Levinson, Soviet Jews and anti-semitism
Document: Declaration of the Group for the Implementation of the Helsinki Agreements in the USSR (on the secret trial of Rudenko and Tykhy)
Romania
Extracts from the Diary of Paul Goma: Audience with a central Committee Secretary
Labour Movement
Polish Workers Defence Campaign established
NALGO and Poland
Reviews
John Dornberg, Brezhnev, the Mask of Power, by Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald)
Stefan Heym, Five Days in June, by Günter Minnerup
Voices of Czechoslovak Socialists by Mark Jackson
#4, Vol. 1, No. 4, September-October 1977
USSR
Marina Voikhanskaya, Experiences of a Soviet psychiatrist
Halya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), The Klymchuk affair
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Student disturbances in Estonian city
Czechoslovakia
Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), The trial of Chartists may start in September
Document: Charter 77 Document No. 12: On the Position of Writers
Poland
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), Cross-currents after the amnesty
Documents:
1. Declaration of Workers’ Defence Committee (KOR) after the amnesty (July 1977)
2. Silesian Miner’s Account
Yugoslavia
Document from the Praxis Group: The Meaning of the Struggle for Civil and Human Rights
Albania
Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), The Albanian attack on Chinese foreign policy
Labour Movement
Halya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), The growth of labour movement defence activity in the West
Reviews
Paul Lendvai, Anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe, by Julie Feder
Heinz Lippmann, Honecker and the New Politics of Europe, by Günter Minnerup
#5, Vol. 1, No. 5, November-December 1977
Socialists and Human Rights
Eric Heffer Repression in Eastern Europe – A crime against socialism
German Democratic Republic
Günter Minnerup, Who is Rudolf Bahro?
Interview with Rudolf Bahro
Extracts from Rudolf Bahro’s The Alternative
Romania
Ana Klein (Anca Mihailescu), Miners’ strike jolts Ceausescu
Document: Three Letters from Romanian Miners;
Czechoslovakia
Colin Mmeade (Mark Jackson), The trials begin
Documents:
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)
Poland
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), From defence committees to political groups
Pawel Jankowski, Robotnik – a new workers’ paper
Documents:
1. Declaration of the Democratic Movement
2. Declaration of the Student Solidarity Committee (SKS)
3. KOR Statement in Solidarity with Chartists on Trial
4. Gierek Briefing on the Polish Opposition
Hungary
Document: Letter from Hungarian Methodists Protesting Persecution
USSR
Halya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), The news in brief
Labour Movement
British students demand release of Klymchuk
Bahro Defence Committee Appeal
AUEW protest against Charter 77 repression
Labour movement defence committee addresses in Europe and North America
Review
Miklós Haraszti, A Worker in a Workers’ State, by Patrick Camiller
#6, Vol. 1, No. 6, January-February 1978
Czechoslovakia
Jan Kavan, One year of Charter 77
Documents:
1. Charter 77 Statement on the Trial of Lastuvka and Macháèek
2. Charter 77 Statement on the Trial of Ornest, Lederer, Pavlicek and Havel
3. Letters between KOR and Charter 77
4. Charter 77 Open Letter to Heinrich Böll
Romania
Patrick Camiller, Ceausescu sacks mine ministers
Interview with Paul Goma
German Democratic Republic
Günter Minnerup, Growing campaign for Bahro and Havemann
Documents:
1. Statement by Jürgen Fuchs on the House Arrest of Robert Havemann
2. Review of Bahro’s The Alternative by anonymous SED functionary
Poland
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), Gierek bids for church’s hand
Document: Warsaw Round Table Discussion of Opposition Activists
USSR
Halya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), Arrested workers protest corruption
M. I. Holubenko, A workers’ writer in the USSR
News in brief
Yugoslavia
Vasa Pelagic, Transport workers strike in Zagreb
Socialists and Human Rights
Vladimir 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 Views
Women's Organisations
International Women's day
The Opposition
Abortion Petition in Hungary
Women and the Dissident Movements
Czech Case Histories
News Items
Home and Work
Housing and Services
Why aren't Women at the Top?
Sexuality
Being Gay in Moscow
Attitudes to Sexuality
Violence Against Women
Birth Rate Politics
Babies or Jobs
Abortion 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, March-April 1978
USSR
Story of a workers’ group (from Amnesty International Research Staff)
Vadim Belotserkovsky, Workers and employees in defence of human rights
Halya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), Moscow trials soon?
Czechoslovakia
Marian Sling, Testament to political bankruptcy
German Democratic Republic
Günter Minnerup, Carrillo calls for Bahro’s release
Jena Workers’ Story: Part I: Group of expelled GDR workers tell of their experiences
Romania
Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), National oppression in Transylvania
Vasile Paraschiv, A workers’ plan for independent unions
Poland
Documents:
1. Student Solidarity Committee Statement
2. Social Self Defence Committee Statement
3. Letter from Edward Ochab and others to Gierek
Labour Movement
Prague Spring anniversary conference in Brussels
Bahro Defence Appeal
Review
Dissent in Poland 1976-1978. Reports and Documents published by the Association of Polish Students and Graduates in Exile, by Peter Gowan (Peter Green)
Socialists and Human Rights
National Union of Students and Defence Activity
Hilary Barnard and Nigel Stanley, The Labour Student Viewpoint
#8, Vol. 2, No. 2, May-June 1978
USSR
Document: Soviet Trade Union Group Appeals to Western Unions
Interview with Vadim Belotserkovsky, Trade unions and workers
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Demonstrators win victory in Georgia
Czechoslovakia
Jan Kavan, Political currents emerge within Charter 77
Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), Sabata replaces Hajek as spokesperson for Charter 77
Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), More Charter 77 supporters jailed
Documents:
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 Republic
Jena Workers’ Story: Part II: Group of expelled GDR workers tell of their experiences
Document: Manifesto of the League of Democratic Communists of Germany (Berlin Oct 1977)
Romania
Document: Repression against Hungarian minority in Transylvania
Poland
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), Appeal launched by workers’ group in Katowice
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), Polish writers attack censorship
Pawel Jankowski, Marxist manifesto calls for socialist democracy
Yugoslavia
Dunja Vukašinovic, Managers take workers to court for complaint
Bulgaria
Declaration 78 issued by opposition group
Labour Movement
Eastern Europe Solidarity Campaign launches appeal for Soviet Group
French unions speak out
Toronto-based campaign for Helsinki Group
#9, Vol. 2, No. 3, July-August 1978
USSR
Eric Heffer, Labour and the Free Trade Unionists
Jarko Koshiv (Victor Haynes), The Trade Union Association: Basic facts
Document: Statutes of the Free Trade Union Association
Halya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), Orlov sentenced, Shcharantsky next?
Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), Ginsburg for trial
Document: 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 Star
Boris Weil, 10th Anniversary of the Chronicle of Current Events
Czechoslovakia
Special Supplement: Debate Inside Charter 77
1. Introduction
2. Letter from Jan Tesar to Prof. Jiri Hajek
3. Letter from Prof. Jiri Hajek to Jan Tesar
4. Letter from Ladislav Hejdanek to a friend
5. Letter from Lubos Kohout to Jan Tesar
6. Letter from Petr Uhl to Lubos Kohout
German Democratic Republic
Günter Minnerup, Bahro sentenced to 8 years in secret trial
Poland
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), Unofficial trade union committee formed
Documents:
1. Founding Declaration of the Committee for Free Trade Unions in Katowice
2. Leaflet by Katowice Committee
3. Founding Declaration of Free Trade Unions of the Baltic Seaboard
Romania
Vasile Paraschiv, Experiences of a socialist worker (interview)
Labour Movement
Patrick Camiller, In retrospect: the labour movement and the invasion of Czechoslovakia
Review
Jonathan Steele, Socialism with a German Face, by Günter Minnerup
#10, Vol. 2, No. 4, September-October 1978
USSR
Jarko Koshiv (Victor Haines), New support for Soviet trade union association
Patrick Camiller, Health worker gets 5 years for exposing psychiatric abuse
Yuri Orlov, An autobiographical sketch
Boris Weil, To be a Marxist in the USSR
Documents:
1. Letter from L. M. Siry to Central Council of Trade Unions, Moscow
2. Charter 77 Solidarity with Soviet dissidents: Letter from L. Hejadanek, M. Kubisova and J. Šabata to Soviet Ambassador in Prague
Czechoslovakia
Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), Invasion anniversary passes, crisis remains
Documents:
1. Charter 77 Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the Soviet Invasion
2. Joint Statement by Charter 77 and Polish KOR
3. List of political prisoners in Czechoslovakia
4. Founding Statement of the Committee for the Defence of those Unjustly Prosecuted (VONS)
Interview with Plastic People of the Universe
Debate inside Charter 77: Jan Tesar replies to the Debate in Charter 77
Hungary
Miklós Haraszti, In the wake of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the myth of Kadarism
German Democratic Republic
Documents:
1. Statement by Robert Havemann on the imprisonment of Bahro
2. Charter 77 Statement in Solidarity with Bahro
An interview with Rudolf Bahro
Poland
Documents:
1. Secret party view of the opposition
2. Peasant Committee Letter to Parliament
3. Social Self-Defence Committee Communiqué on the Peasant Strike
4. Statement from Lublin Peasants’ Self-Defence Committee
5. Appeal of Lublin Peasants’ Self-Defence Committee
Labour Movement
March calls for troops out of Czechoslovakia
Eastern Europe Solidarity Campaign Notes
TUC takes no action on repressed Soviet worker
#11, Vol. 2, No. 5, November-December 1978
Human Rights
Letter 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
Czechoslovakia
Document: KSS-KOR Appeal for Sabata
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), New drive against Charter activists
Interview with Gertruda Sekaninova-Cakrtova
Document: Letter to the General Council of the Socialist International from Rudolf Battek, Jaroslav Meznik, and Jirí Müller
German Democratic Republic
Rudolf Bahro, Letter from prison
Günter Minnerup, Robert Havemann speaks out
Interview with Robert Havemann
USSR
Jarko Koshiv (Victor Haines), New Soviet trade union formed
Halya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), New report on the fate of Klebanov and his comrades
Interview with Leonid Plyushch
Patrick Camiller, Soviet paper published anti-semitic attack
Poland
Jean Michel Caradech, The peasant movement: an eyewitness account
Documents:
1. Report of Peasant Assembly
2. Resolution of Sbrosza Duza peasants
3. Sbrosza Duza Communiqué No. 1
4. Sbrosza Duza Communiqué No. 2
Hungary
Janet Asquith, The political situation in Hungary
Romania
Patrick Camiller, Regime terror against Hungarian activists and psychiatric abuse in Romania.
Labour Movement
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Left-wing defence bulletins in Eastern Europe
ILO investigates human rights violations
#12, Vol. 2, No. 6, January-February 1979
Czechoslovakia
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Who is Dr. Jaroslav Šabata
Interview with Jaroslav Šabata on Charter 77 perspectives
Polish KOR interview Charter 77 representatives
Document: Charter 77 exposes nuclear power scandal
Poland
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), Rising tensions in Poland
Document: KSS-KOR Appeal to the Nation
Hungary
Interview with Miklós Haraszti
Romania
Patrick Camiller, Ceausescu’s nationalist card
German Democratic Republic
Letter on the current situation in the GDR
Labour Movement
NUM drops Klebanov case
French CGT and Canadian labour back Klebanov
Berlin congress launches drive for Bahro’s release
Review
Rudolf Bahro, The Alternative, by Günter Minnerup.
Human Rights
Document: Appeal to Western Socialists and Communists by Soviet Civil Rights
Campaigners in Exile
#13, Vol. 3, No. 1, March-April 1979
German Democratic Republic
Document: Rudolf Bahro’s Second letter from prison
Günter Minnerup, Government retreats on military education
Czechoslovakia
Jan Kavan, Charter 77 renews its leadership
The Šabata Case
1. Speech from the dock
2. Šabata’s lawyer threatened
3. Interview with Šabata’s son
Document: Charter 77 Document on Romanies in Czechoslovakia: Part I
Poland
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), Worker activist’s trial becomes test case
Documents from the Peasant Movement:
1. Resolution of Rzeszów Region Farmers’ Self defence Committee
2. Rzeszów Committee Communiqué No. 1
3. Communiqué from Zbrosza Duza Farmers’ Self Defence Committee
4. Letter to Party Secretary from Zbrosza Committee
5. Communiqué No 6 from Zbrosza Committee
Romania
Patrick Camiller, New trade union committee gets big response from Hungarian workers
Mihály Vajda, The Hungarian minority in Transylvania
Document: Founding Declaration of Romanian Trade Union Committee
USSR
John Scobie & Helen Jamieson, 200 protest arrest of left oppositionists in Leningrad
Ustymn Tyshanenko, Executions in Moscow
Other news:
- Medvedev, Agapova seek to stand in elections
- Ukrainian activists under attack
- Old Bolshevik (Arnost Kolman) dies
Document: Declaration of Free Inter-Trade Union Association of Workers (SMOT)
Labour Movement
Labour leaders in new Bahro appeal
Šabata protests
New moves in Klebanov affair
Review
Marc Rakovsky, Towards an East European Marxism, by Wlodzimierz Brus
Letters
Debate on boycotting the Soviet Union (Tamara Deutscher, Ken Coates, Günter Minnerup)
#14, Vol. 3, No. 2, May-June 1979
Romania
Document: Statement from Romanian Free trade union movement (SLOMR)
USSR
Halya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), The crackdown on Leningrad students
Vadim Nechaev, The Leningrad left opposition: A history
Jarko Koshiv (Victor Haynes), The real life of Vladimir Klebanov
News in brief
Poland
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), Attack on Kuroñ’s flat shakes Warsaw intelligentsia
Documents:
1. KSS-KOR and Robotnik: The Strike Movement
2. The Medicine Crisis: Open Letter from KSS-KOR to the Ministry of Health
German Democratic Republic
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Tensions in regime produce policy shift
Documents:
1. Statement by Robert Havemann
2. Statement by Czech socialist exiles in solidarity with Robert Havemann
Hungary
Bill Lomax, From intellectual theory to Samizdat practice
Czechoslovakia
Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), Šabata given one and one half year sentence
Discussion in Charter 77
- Introduction
- Ludvik Vaculik, Notes on courage
- Václav Havel, Reply to Vaculik
- Petr Pithart, Some people’s shoulders
- Jaroslav Suk, Reply to Pithart
Document: Charter 77 Document on Romanies in Czechoslovakia: Part II
Labour Movement
International appeal for Bahro
Letter from black prisoners in USA about Crimean Tatar leader, Mustafa Dzhemilev
Šabata campaign
Review
S. Kopácsi, Au Nom de la Class Ouvrière
Letters
Debate on boycotting the Soviet Union (Vladimir Derer, Laura Strong)
#15, Vol. 3, No. 3, July-August 1979
Czechoslovakia
Jan Kavan, The how and the why of the Prague trial
Biographies of the arrested
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), The Danisz affair
Interview with Z. Mylnar: The international significance of the Prague trial
International Appeal against trial
Documents:
1. Charter 77 Statement on Arrests
2. VONS Statement on Arrests and Background
Poland
Adam Michnik, Poland and the Pope’s visit
Jacek Kuroñ, The situation in the country and the programme of the opposition
German Democratic Republic
Günter Minnerup, Clampdown on writers continues
Hungary
Bill Lomax, A chronology of political and intellectual opposition under the Kadar regime 1956-1978
USSR
Letter from the editors of Poiski on suppression of literary journals
Labour Movement
Charter 77 Defence Committee
French CP and Czech trial
Bahro defence campaign
Review
Vladimir Fišera, The Workers’ Councils in Czechoslovakia, by Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald)
#16, Vol. 3, No. 4, September-October 1979
Czechoslovakia
Report from VONS prisoner (Jiri Dienstbier)
VONS steps up its activity
New information on arrested VONS members
East European solidarity with VONS
Hungarians in Slovakia protest oppression
1. Introduction by George Schöpflin
2. Letter to Charter 77
3. Liquidating Hungarian-language schools in Slovakia
Poland
Documents
1. Charter of Workers Rights
2. Letter from Robotnik to World federation of Free Trade Unions
3. 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 Republic
Document: Robert Havemann's Appeal on 30th Anniversary of GDR
USSR
Halya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), The struggle for trade union rights continues
Document: Togliattigrad workers explain need for a trade union
Romania
Patrick Camiller, All trade unionists all the time?
Labour Movement
Document: Labour Party National Executive Committee Resolution on Czech Arrests
Reviews
Safran and Czech musical underground
Ken Coats, The Case of Nikolai Bukharin, by Günter Minnerup
#17, Vol. 3, No. 5, November-December 1979
Czechoslovakia
Jan Kavan, The October VONS trial
Catherine Samary, In Prague for the trial
Poland
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), Unofficial political life still flourishes
Jan Litynski (editor of Robotnik), The unofficial workers’ movement in Poland
Document: Founding Declaration of National Committee of Polish Socialists
German Democratic Republic
Interview with Rudolf Bahro, by Günter Minnerup
USSR
Pyotr Abovin-Egides and Pinkhas Podrabinek, The Democratic Movement in the Soviet Union (Part 1)
Hungary
Hundreds protest Prague trial
Romania
Patrick Camiller, Democracy, Ceausescu Style
Labour Movement
British labour calls for fact-finding commission on civil rights in Czechoslovakia
Gus Fagan (Joe Singleton), The German right and human rights
#18, Vol. 3, No. 6, January-February 1980
USSR
Halya Kowalsky (Helen Jamieson), The new crackdown on oppositionists
Gus Fagan (Joe Singleton), The drive against Sakharov
Pyotr 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 nation
Alix Holt, Women in Russia
Documents
1. Programmatic statement of left opposition youth group
2. Letter from the editorial board of Women in Russia
3. Manifesto of Women and Russia
4. The other side of the medal (from Women in Russia)
Poland
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), The leadership crisis
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), The struggle for independent workers’ organisation in Gdansk
Documents
1. Leaflet to shipyard workers from Founding Committee of the Free Trade Unions of Gdansk region and Editorial Board of Robotnik Wybrzeza (Oct. 1979)
2. Leaflet distributed in mining area of Katowice (Nov. 1979)
Czechoslovakia
Documents
1. Charter 77 Declaration on Third Anniversary of Movement
2. VONS Statement on Appeal Court hearing
Hungary
The New Mechanism: A Balance Sheet (Interview with András Hegedüs, Tamás Földvári and Zoltán Zsille)
Labour Movement
John Platts-Mills QC, Report on trip to Prague
Levko Dumianenko, Defence activity in Canada
Susannah Fry, ILO defends Soviet workers’ right to organise
#19, Vol. 4, Nos. 2-3, Spring-Autum 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
The 3 October strike
- Strike call explained by Warsaw union committee
- Why the strike still goes on, by the Gdansk leadership
Trying 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-Management
Self-Management, by W. Wypych and H. Szlajfer
#20, Vol. 4, Nos. 4-6, Winer-Spring 1981
Special Polish Issue II: Solidarnosc in Action
December 1970
Gdansk
- Anna Walentynowicz on December 1970
- Recollections by Kazimierz Szotoch
Gdynia
- Reminiscences
Szczecin
- 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)
Katowice
- Interview with Andrzej Rozplochowski, Chair of Katowice Solidarnosc
Walbrzych
- Building Solidarnosc in Walbrzych, by Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald)
The political context
The 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, Spring 1982
Poland
Solidarnosc: 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 coup
Zbigniew Kowalewski, Solidarnosc on the eve
Lech Walêsa, The final speech before his arrest
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), Poland: The coup and after
Gus Fagan (Joe Singleton), The life and death struggle in Silesia
Gus Fagan (Joe Singleton), The new martial law regime
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Conflicting responses of the Catholic Church
Interview with Zbigniew Bujak, The aims of the underground
Documents
1. Communiqué of National Strike Committee 13 Dec 1981
2. Basic principles of resistance (leaflet issued by Solidarnosc in Katowice
3. Communiqué from All-Poland Resistance Committee, NSZZ Solidarnosc
4. Appeal to the Public (All-Poland Resistance Committee, NSZZ Solidarnosc
5. Appeal by Krakow branch of Solidarnosc
Labour Movement
Gus Fagan (Joe Singleton), Response of British labour movement to the military coup in Poland
Eastern Europe’s Peace Movements
Gus Fagan (Joe Singleton), Unofficial peace movement in the GDR
Documents:
1. Berlin Appeal Jan 1982: Make Peace Without Weapons
2. Charter 77 statement on peace
Czechoslovakia
Documents:
1. Charter 77 statements in solidarity with Poland
2. 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
Yugoslavia
Branks Magas (Michele Lee), Yugoslav reaction to Polish coup
Branks Magas (Michele Lee), Yugoslavia’s Albanian crisis
Albania
Branks Magas (Michele Lee), Albania’s party congress
#22, Vol. 5, Nos. 3-4, Summer 1982
Hungary
Bill Lomax, The rise of the democratic opposition
Articles 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 1956
Documents:
1. Ferenc Donath, excerpt from a letter to historian Miklós Molnár, June 1978
2. Imre Nagy, Letter to Ferenc Donath, 23 Nov 1956
Poland
Solidarity debates strategy:
1. Jacek Kuroñ, Propositions on solving an insoluble situation
2. Zbigniew Bujak, Positional struggle
3. Wiktor Kulerski, The third possibility
4. 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 Movements
Robert Havemann, For a free peace movement in the GDR
Charter 77, Open Letter to peace movements
Bill Lomax, Pacifist movement within the Hungarian Catholic Church
German Democratic Republic
Günter Minnerup, Robert Havemann 1910-1982
Czechoslovakia
Jan Kavan, Pro-Solidarnosc group continues despite arrests and provocations
Yugoslavia
Interview with Arshi Pipa, Kosovo between Yugoslavia and Albania
USSR
John-Paul Himka, The opposition in Ukraine
#23, Vol. 5, Nos. 5-6, Winter 1982-1983
Eastern Europe after Poland
János Kis, Thoughts on the future (from Beszélõ, May 1982)
USSR
Interview with Zhores Medvedev, Yuri Andropov and his ways
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Russian socialists face trial
Review of the journal, Left Turn
Vasyl Demchuk, Workers’ opposition in Ukraine
Document: Open letter from Soviet peace groups to organisations in Europe and America
Poland
Jean-Ives Potel, A year of martial law in Poland
Peter Gowan (Peter Green), Jaruzelski’s new unions – independent?
Documents:
1. Dawid Warszawski, Letter to the left
2. Open Letter to Western trade unions and workers’ parties from Solidarnosc Warsaw Inter-Workplace Workers’ Committee
3. Communiqués from Gdansk Solidarnosc October 1982
4. Letter of Lech Walesa to General Jaruzelski, 8 Nov 1982
Romania
Andrew Csepel, Ceausescu tries CIA methods on workers
Kalman Garzo, An unofficial Hungarian view of Romania
German Democratic Republic
Interview with Simone Langrock
Document: Letter from GDR women to Erich Honecker
Czechoslovakia
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Czech opposition continues to support Solidarnosc
Jirina Siklova, Socialists and illegal literature
Document: Charter 77 Statement on the second anniversary of the Gdansk Agreement
Yugoslavia
Branka Magas (Michele Lee), Solidarity with Solidarnosc
Hungary
Bill Lomax, Police harassment of Samizdat activists
Peace Movements
E P Thompson, The Peace Movement and Eastern Europe (interview)
Wolf Biermann, Disarmament begins at home
Bill Lomax, The Hungarian Peace Movement
#24, Vol. 6, Nos. 1-2, Summer 1983
USSR
Jeff Gleisner, Old Bolsheviks discuss socialism
Rick Hellman, Andropov’s discipline campaign
Document: 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 Republic
Gus Fagan, The peace movement enters its second year
Rudolf Bahro, The peace movement, the cold war and Germany
Documents:
1. Jürgen Fuchs, Letter to European Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (END)
2. “For a real peace without weapons”: from group of peace activists in Jena
3. Letters to Erich Honecker from citizens of Jena
4. Letter from Katya Havemann to Jürgen Fuchs
Hungary
Bill Lomax, Samizdat under siege
Kivûl Alló, The role of dissident intellectuals (from Beszélõ No 4)
Gus Fagan, Unofficial peace demonstration in Budapest
Poland
James Young, Repression and clericalism in Katowice
Peter 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
Czechoslovakia
Jaroslav Šabata, What path out of the domestic crisis?
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Charter 77 and peace – bad news in both blocs
Interview with Zdena Tominova
Documents:
1. Charter 77 Letter to Peace Congress
2. Letter from Anna Šabatova to the Minister of the Interior, on the medical harassment of her husband, Petr Uhl
3. Letter from Jaroslav Šabata to E. P. Thompson: The Struggle for Peace and Eastern Europe (April 1983)
#25, Vol.7, No. 1, Winter, 1984
USSR
Zhores Medvedev, Andropov’s power and priorities (interview)
David Holland & Ralph Kinnear, In the belly of the beast – Inside Radio Free Europe
Czechoslovakia
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Sudden growth of nuclear pacifism
Andrew Csepel, Official bunk about punk
Poland
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Government in quandary over trials of Solidarnosc leaders and advisers
David Holland, Self-management without Solidarity
Document: Programmatic statement from Lech Walesa, Dec 1983
German Democratic Republic
Günter Minnerup, hard times ahead for the peace movement
Roland 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
Hungary
Bill Lomax, The dialogue breaks down: problems facing the Hungarian peace movement
Bill Lomax, Harassment of opposition intensifies
Bill Lomax, Avantgarde journal (Mozgó Világ) under attack
Yugoslavia
Luka Markovic, Yugoslavia and the IMF: The League of Communists at the Crossroads
Document: Ivan Jankovic, Open letter: Belgrade prisons – theory and practice
Albania
Branka Magas (Michele Lee), Albania’s isolation in post-war politics
Labour Movement
John Cunningham, The cases of Klebanov and Nikitin
Reviews
W. Brus, P. Kende & Z. Mlynar, Normalisation processes in Soviet-Dominated Central Europe, by Andrew Csepel
Carmen Sirianni, Workers’ Control and Socialist Democracy, by Mike Haynes
Ferenc Fehér and Ágnes Heller, Hungary 1956 Revisited: The Message of a Revolution a Quarter of a Century Later, by Bill Lomax
János Kenedi, Do It Yourself: Hungary’s Hidden Economy, by Bill Lomax
#26, Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer, 1984
Hungary
Interview 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.)
Yugoslavia
Branka Magas (Michele Lee), Yugoslavia between the IMF and socialism
Documents: A dossier of documents on the case of Radomir Radovic
Poland
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), The political struggle over working class organisation
Documents:
1. Letter from Andrzej Slowik, leader of Solidarnosc in Lodz, from the Barczewo prison
2. Extracts from the Memoir of Edward Skrzypczak, Communist Party Provincial First Secretary in the region of Poznan Czechoslovakia
Document: An official report (unpublished) on the ecological crisis from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
German Democratic Republic
Günter Minnerup, The round-up of peace activists
Wolfram Hasch (jailed activist in Weimar), Self-critical observations on the East German peace movement
Reviews
Stephen Woolcock, Western Policies on East-West Trade, Chatham House Papers, no. 15, by Fred Halliday
Chris Harman, Class Struggle in Eastern Europe, by Günter Minnerup
Teodor Shanin, Late Marx and the Russian Road, by John Molyneux
L. H. Edmonson, Feminism in Russia 1900-1917, by Anna Paczuska
Timothy Garton Ash, The Polish Revolution, Solidarity 1980-82, by Boleslaw Sulik
#27, Vol. 8, No. 1, Winter-Spring, 1985
Hungary
Document: Imre Nagy’s Secret Speech to the Central Committee of the Hungarian Workers’ Party, 27 June 1953
Czechoslovakia
Jiri Dienstbier, Pax Europeana (On the thinkable and unthinkable). (from Listy, no. 6, 1984)
Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), Chartists debate history
Poland
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Jaruzelski back on the defensive
Henryk Wujec, Self-management and Solidarity (interview)
Bulgaria
Branka Magas (Michele Lee), The persecution of the Turks
Yugoslavia
Boris Vuskovic, The League of Communists and young people (interview, from NIN, 17 Feb 1985)
German Democratic Republic
Documents submitted by GDR peace activists to the 3rd Disarmament Convention in Perugia, July 1984:
1. Fundamentals of a peace strategy
2. A history of the peace movement in the GDR
Reviews
Milan Simecka, The Restoration of Order: The Normalisation of Czechoslovakia, Verso 1984, by Karla Joachim
Strobe Talbott, Deadly Gambles, Picador 1984, by Ben Lowe
Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolution, and Victor Serge, Midnight in the Century, by John Molyneux
Carol Hansson & Karin Lidem, Moscow Women; Tatiana Mamonova (ed) Women and Russia, by Jill Nicholls
Alexandra Kollontai, Selected Writings (introduction and commentary by Alix Holt); Alexandra Kollontai, Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle (introduction by Lindsey Germain), by Lucy Robinson
Robert Munting, The Economic Development of the USSR; David Wilson, The Demand for Energy in the Soviet Union, by Mike Haynes
USSR
Zhores Medvedev, New leaders, old problems – new solutions? (interview)
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), New directions in Soviet Westpolitik
Taras Lekhyj, The Ukrainian party congress
Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), Gorbachev and Eastern Europe
German Democratic Republic
Documents:
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”)
Poland
David Holland, Self-management in Poland: government and opposition views
Gus Fagan, Political groups in the Polish underground
Ivan Howard, New wave of repression in Poland
Hungary
György Krassó, The Monor discussion
Tomás Bauer, Eight comments on the directives for the 13th congress
Romania
Colin Meade (Mark Jackson), Recent trends
Bulgaria
Janez Stanic, Clouds over Bulgaria (from Start, Zagreb, Feb 1986)
Albania
Arshi Pipa, Hoxha’s heritage
East-West
Dušan Pirec, Europe’s nations put to the test
Joško Palavršic, European Social Democracy and the USA
Reviews
Moshe Lewin, The Making of the Soviet Union, by Gus Fagan
Gregory Fyynn & Hans Rattinger, The Public and Atlantic Defence, by Ben Lowe
M. Schaffer (ed), Technology Transfer and East-West Relations, by Gary Harman
Rosemary Kavan, Freedom at a Price, by Karen Jones
Edith Durham, High Albania, by Branka Magas (Michele Lee)
Nicolas Krassó – In Memoriam
#29, Vol. 8, No. 3, November 1986
East-West
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Thinking big after Reykjavik
Eric Heffer MP, Peace, non-alignment, and democracy in Eastern Europe
Hungary
Ferenc Töke, The workers’ councils in 1956 (reprint of 1961 article)
Gus Fagan, The possibility of compromise: István Bibó and the Hungarian revolution
György Krassó, A spectre is haunting Budapest
Documents:
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 1956
3. East European opposition commemorates Hungarian Revolution: Appeal from oppositionists in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, GDR, Poland
Poland
Andrzej Choniawko, Poland 1956: the Poznan uprising
USSR
Taras Lehkyj, Chernobyl: the first forty days
German Democratic Republic
Kevin Ball, New voices from East Berlin
Wolfgang 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 Ecology Movement: “Chernobyl is Everywhere”
Yugoslavia
Branka Magas (Michele Lee), The end of an era (on Serbian nationalism)
Reviews
Christian Schmidt-Hauer, Gorbachev, the Path to Power; Zhores Medvedev, Gorbachev, by Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald)
Donald, Filtzer, Soviet Workers and Stalinist Industrialisation, by Tamara Deutscher
Craig Zum Brunnen and Jeffrey Osleeb, The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry, by Mike Haynes
Julia Voznesenskaya, The Women’s Decameron, by Jill Nicholls
Zhores Medvedev, Gorbachev, by Paul Foot
Isaac Deutscher, Marxism, Wars and Revolutions: Essays from Four Decades, by Julian Sorrell
Roger Woods, Opposition in the GDR under Honecker 1971-85, by Günter Minnerup
#30, Vol. 9, No. 1, March-June 1987
USSR
Zhores Medvedev, The January Plenum and Gorbachev’s Course (interview)
Roy Medvedev, A panorama of cultural life in the USSR in 1986
Sean Roberts, Soviet culture emerges from the deepfreeze
Interview with Soviet left-wing activist Alexander Severukhin
Human Rights and Socialism
Petr Uhl, Human rights and political revolution
Wolfgang Templin, On Petr Uhl’s “Human rights and political revolution”
Czechoslovakia
Andrew Csepel. One eye on Husák and one on Moscow
Poland
David Holland, The Polish cat-and-mouse game
David Holland, Emptier plates and bigger truncheons (review of Samizdat publication, “The Poland Report – Five years Since August”)
Hungary
György Krassó, Writers in revolt
Debate
Branka Magas (Michele Lee), The lessons of the Hungarian October
Günter Minnerup, Reply to Michele Lee
Review articles
The Artful Albanian: The Memoirs of Enver Hoxha, by Arshi Pipa
Bohdan Krawchenko, Social Change and National Consciousness in Twentieth-Century
Ukraine, by Jarko Koshiv (Victor Haynes)
#31, Vol. 9, No. 2, July-October 1987
East-West
Peter Brandt & Günter Minnerup, Eastern Europe and the German Question
USSR
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Perestroika enters a critical stage
Sean Roberts, New drive for quality reduces production and increases friction
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Myasnikov, Open Letter to Gorbachev
Poland
Jadwiga Staniszkis, For a theory of “real socialism”
Adam Michnik, The great counter-reformer
Yugoslavia
Letter 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 International
Branko Horvath, The Kosovo question
Document: Petition by 200 leading Belgrade intellectuals
Czechoslovakia
Interview with seven activists of Charter 77
Hans Starek, Prestavba rules, but what is it?
Hungary
Hubertus Knabe, Hungary’s growing environmental problems
Interview with Ferenc Langmar, editor of Hungarian ecology journal, Vizjel
#32, Vol. 9, No. 3, November 1987
USSR
Alexander Severukhin, The left unites
Bulat Okudzhava, If Gorbachev takes risks, then why shouldn’t I?
David Seppo, Economic reform and democracy in the Soviet Union
Documents:
1. Declaration of Moscow Conference of Socialist Clubs
2. Preamble to Programme of Club for Social Initiatives (KSI): a discussion document from an individual member of KSI
Hungary
Gus Fagan, Kadar’s legacy
German Democratic Republic
Kevin 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)
3. Lessons of Hungary 1956 (1984)
Yugoslavia
Branka Magas (Michele Lee), A new stage in the crisis
#33, Vol. 10, No. 1, April 1988
East-West
Jiøi Dienstbier, A strategy for Europe – through Central European eyes
USSR
Zhores Medvedev, The state of Perestroika (interview)
Roy Medvedev, The emergence of national problems in Soviet Transcaucasia
Documents (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 Perestroika
2. Some problems of internal political restructuring: democratisation, glasnost, criticism and historical memory
3. Declaration of the Historical Political Club “Obshchina”
Poland
David Holland, Poland after the referendum
Jacek Kuroñ, Landscape after the battle (1987)
Solodarity Provisional Council discusses “Landscape after the battle” (from Tygodnik Mazowsze, no. 220, 16 Sept 1987 – participants include Jozef Pinior, Henryk Wujec, Bogdan Lis, Bogdan Borusewicz, Zbigniew Bujak, and Jacek Kuroñ)
Czechoslovakia
Adam Novotny, After Husák: reform?
Romania
Gus Fagan, Misery under the “Conducator”
Hungary
Chris Corrin, Hungarian Glasnost?
German Democratic Republic
Kevin Ball, Reaffirming the limits: resisting reform and democratisation
Wolfgang Templin, We shall be back (interview)
Yugoslavia
Branka Magas (Michele Lee), Awaiting the future
Marijan 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)
Review
Vladimir Vysotsky, Four Quarters of a Journey, by Agnia Mendeleeva
#34, Vol. 10, No. 2, September-December 1988
Eastern Europe Survey
Misha Glenny, Under the shadow of Perestroika
USSR
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), The 19th Conference and socialist democracy
Piotr Siuda, The Novocherkassk Tragedy: 1-3 June 1962. An eyewitness account (introduction by Sean Roberts)
Viktor Alexandrovich Gershfeld, interviewed by Tariq Ali
Jeremy Lester, Perestroika in the provinces: the view from Bashkiria
Poland
Leszek Budrewicz, What does it mean to be a socialist in Poland today?
Czechoslovakia
Zdenek Mlynar, The lessons of the Prague Spring
Yugoslavia
Branka Magas (Michele Lee), Democracy and the national question
Reviews
Janina Bauman, A Dream of belonging: My Years in Postwar Poland, by Michael Hindley
Boris Kagarlitsky, The Thinking Reed, by Sean Roberts
Ronald C Clark, Lenin, The Man Behind the Mask, by Tamara Deutscher
USSR
Boris Kagarlitsky, “Power to the Soviets” means separating them from the Party (interview)
Nikolai Osa, Report from Armenia
Articles from Levyi Povorot (Left Turn), journal of the Federation of Socialist Social Clubs (FSOK), with introduction by Sean Roberts
- 19th party 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)
Poland
Documents from the Polish Socialist Party, Democratic Revolution (PPS RD), introduced and translated 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 Republic
Gus Fagan, The aesthetics of resistance: Women’s literature in the GDR, Part I
Yugoslavia
Branka Magas (Michele Lee), Will the centre hold?
Labour Movement
Eric Heffer MP, Mrs Thatcher is no friend of trade unions
Gus Fagan, Gorbachev and the European left
Review
Tariq Ali, Revolution From Above: Where is the Soviet Union Going?, by Günter Minnerup
USSR
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Stalinism, the national question and separatism in the USSR
Jeremy Lester, The Baltic challenge
Taras Lehkyj, On the current situation in Ukraine
Meeting 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 introduced by Jeremy Lester)
Boris Kagarlitsky, The elections and Yeltsin
Poland
Jozef Pinior, Reform or revolution? (Discussion Document for the Polish Socialist Party, translated and introduced by David Holland)
Yugoslavia
Milosevic crushes Albanian Intifada, (articles introduced and translated by Michele Lee)
Jelena Lovric, Trepca on strike
Shkelzen Maliqi, The Albanian Intifada
German Democratic Republic
Gus Fagan, The aesthetics of resistance: Women’s literature in the GDR, Part II
German Democratic Republic
Günter Minnerup, The October revolution in East Germany
Document: The Böhlen Platform. Appeal for a United Left in Germany
USSR
Boris Kagarlitsky, The difficult path to the future
J. V. Koshiv, First Congress of the Popular Movement for the Reconstruction of Ukraine
Jeremy Lester, The continuing challenge from the Baltics
Poland
Daniel Singer, The unfinished saga of Solidarity
Documents:
1. Statement by the Polish Socialist Party (RD) on the new government in Poland
2. The Mazowiecki Programme and Us (from the Warsaw paper Warszawianka)
Yugoslavia
Branka Magas (Michele Lee), Civil War in Yugoslavia
Romania
Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine, The massacre of Romanian villages
Europe
Peter Gowan (Oliver MacDonald), Eastern Europe’s new self-determination problem
Rossano Rossandra, An unrepentant Communist (interview)
Peter Brandt & Günter Minnerup, The European left in the 1990s
German Democratic Republic
Günter Minnerup, Kohl hijacks the East German revolution
Peter Grimm, The party’s line to power: East Germany’s SED embraces Western-style social democracy with a vengeance
Wolfgang Harich, For a united Germany, both red and green
USSR
Document: 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
Poland
Milka Tyszkiewicz, A Solidarity activists journey to the left (interview)
Document: Programme of the Polish Socialist Party (RD)
Yugoslavia
Branka Magas (Michele Lee), The League of Communists breaks up
Veton Surroi, Kosovo and the struggle for democracy in Yugoslavia (interview)
Review
W. Brus & K. Laski, From Marx to the Market: Socialism in Search of an Economic System, by Andrew Kilmister
Eastern Europe
Daniel 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)
Hungary
Gus Fagan The Left in Hungary
Documents:
1. Charter of Left Alternative (from Eszmélet, March 1990)
2. How to organise a workers’ council (from Eszmélet, March 1990)
USSR
Document: The Marxist Platform in the CPSU (translated and introduced by Rick Simon)
Ukraine
Document: Ukrainian Declaration of Sovereignty, 16 July 1990
Romania
Patrick Camiller, After University Square: political divisions in Romania
Yugoslavia
Branka Magas (Michele Lee), Yugoslavia goes into penalty shoot-out
Review
L.A. Gordon & E.V. Klopov, What was it?, by Rick Simon
Germany
Günter Minnerup, German reunification and the legacy of German Communism
Bertolt Fessen, The people and the power in East Germany 1989
Poland
David Holland Poland in Transition
Interview with Karol Modzelewski
Appeal from the Socialist Political Centre in Wroclaw
Hungary
Gus Fagan, The collapse of Kadarism
USSR
Jeremy 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
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Document: CIS Founding Agreement
Daniel Singer, The collapse of a superpower
Jeremy Lester, Russia: A guide to political parties
Document: Appeal of the Initiative Group for the Formation of a Party of Labour
Interview with Vladimir Kondratov, member of Organising Committee of Party of Labour
M. Nagaitsev, Trade unions in Moscow
Croatia
Drago Roksandic, The myth of “historical conflict”
Poland
David Holland, The post-Solidarity left
Andrew Kilmister, The Polish economic crisis
Zofia Kuratovska, The left of Democratic Union (interview)
Ryszard Bugaj, The politics of Labour Solidarity (interview)
Interview with members of the Socialist Political Centre in Wroclaw
Germany
Gus Fagan, The Party of Democratic Socialism
Peter Kammerer, Mezzogiorno in the east?
Women
Chris Corrin, Women in Eastern Europe
Sheila Malone, Abortion rights in Poland
Hungary
László Andor, Conflict over economic strategy in Hungary
Review
Robin Blackburn (ed), After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism, by Andrew Kilmister
Russia
Rick Simon, Russian Trade Unions: towards neo-corporatism?
Andrei Isayev, Trade Union Ideology in Russia
Documents:
1. Declaration by the federation of Independent Russian Trade Unions
2. Workers and Trade Unions Information Centre, Moscow, Monthly Information Bulletin, no. 1, January 1992
3. Workers and Trade Unions Information Centre, Moscow, Monthly Information Bulletin, no. 3, March 1992
Germany
Renate Hürtgen, Trade Unions in the ex-GDR
Poland
Ryszard 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
Women
Sheila Malone, Women’s rights in Poland
Elena Mezentseva, Women in Russia
Document: Founding document of East-West Women’s Network (Berlin 1991)
Eastern European Economy
Andrew Kilmister, Economic developments in Eastern Europe
Reviews
Nigel Swain, Hungary: The Rise and Fall of Feasible Socialism, by Hugo Radice
Ralph Miliband & Leo Panitch, Socialist Register 1992, by Peter Gowan
Europe: East-West
Peter Gowan, The European Community and East-Central Europe
East European Economy
Andrew Glyn, Wages and reconstruction in Eastern Europe
Poland
David Holland, Campaign in support of Solidarity leader
Milka Tyszkiewicz, Jacek Kuroñ’s New Economic Policy
Yugoslavia
Catherine Samary, The Yugoslav crisis
Christian Promitzer, Political parties in Croatia
Milorad Pupovac, A settlement for the Serbs in Croatia
Europe: East-West
Peter Gowan, The EC and its eastern Neighbours
Hugo Radice, Western investment in Eastern Europe
Valerio Lintner, Monetary integration, recession and the Left
David Edye, Political strains in Western Europe: migration and race
Hungary
László Andor and Tamás Krausz, Liberalism, nationalism and democracy in Hungary
Russia
Alexander Buzgalin, The Russian Left in 1992 (interview)
Poland
Kazimierz Kloc, Industrial conflicts in Poland 1990-1992
Yugoslavia
Branka Magas, The conflict in ex-Yugoslavia: A reply to Catherine Samary
Letter from Croatian Women’s Group
Review
C. Smith and P. Thompson (eds) Labour in Transition: The Labour Process in Eastern Europe and China, by Andrew Kilmister
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 Left
Catherine Samary, Behind the break-up: a civil war and not simply a war of aggression
Mary Kaldor, The new nationalism in Europe
Ben Cohen, The West and the war in Bosnia
Knut 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
Appendix
1. Brief chronology of Yugoslav history
2. Main periods in the economy
3. Basic statistics about the republics and provinces
4. The military situation in Bosnia
5. Addresses and bibliography
Commonwealth of Independent States
Peter Gowan,The CIS and the world economy
Boris Kagarlitsky, The democratic left in Russia
Alexander Buzgalin, Some comments on the programme of the Russian CP
Documents:
1. Programme of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
2. Statement by the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia on the Yeltsin coup
Poland
Paul Lewis, Poland's Democratic Left Alliance (SLD)
Juliusz Gardawski and Tomasz Zukowski, What the Polish workers think
David Holland, Solidarity breaks with the liberals
Who’s who in the SLED (from Gazeta Wyborcza (25/26 Sept 1993)
Armenia
Vicken Cheterian, Independent Armenia
Review
Alexander Yakovlev, The fate of Marxism in Russia, by Jeremy Lester
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. Garton Ash, In Europe's Name)
Reviews
David McNally, Against the Market; Elmar Altvater, The Future of the Market, by Andrew Kilmister
István Székely & David Newbury (eds), Hungary, An Economy in Transition, by Nigel Swain
Glyn Ford (ed), Fascist Europe: The Rise of Racism and Xenophobia, by Bill MacKeith
Peter Gowan, Germany's new role in Europe
Gus Fagan, German foreign policy - The conflict over recognition of Croatia and Slovenia 1991
Sylvia Kaufmann, German foreign policy - the PDS view
Andy Kilmister, German Democratic Republic - The lessons of restructuring
Winfried Wolf, The Bonn-Paris axis under strain
László Andor, The Socialist victory in Hungary
Renfrey Clarke, The American AFL-CIO in the Russian Trade Union Movement
Reviews
Andrei Markovits & Philip Gorski, The German Left: Red Green and Beyond, by Gus Fagan
J. Edwards & K. Fischer, Banks, Finance and Investment in Germany, by Andrew Kilmister
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: extracts
Nenad Zakosek, The far right in Croatia
Štepan Steiger, The far right in the Czech Republic
Helmut 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
Review
D. S. Bell, Western European Communists and the Collapse of Communism, by Kate Hudson
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
Reviews
Barbara Einhorn, Cinderella Goes to Market, by Susan Zimmermann
Anastasia Posadskaya (ed) Women in Russia. A New Era of Russian Feminism, by Sheila Malone
Bob Arnot, Survey: The Russian economy in 1995
David Mandel, The Russian working class, privatisation and labour management relations in the 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
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 Peace
3. PDS Statement against military intervention in former Yugoslavia
Review
János Kornai, The Socialist System, by Tamás Krausz
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 cooperation
Johan Galtung, NATO goes east (interview)
Reviews
T. Lars, O. V. Khlevniuk & O. V. Naumov (eds) Stalin’s letters to Molotov, by Támas Krausz
János Kornai, The Socialist System, by Andrew Kilmister
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
Reviews
D. Gross & A. Steinherr, Winds of Change: Transition in Central and Eastern Europe, by Andrew Kilmister
Archie Brown, The Gorbachev Factor, by Rick Simon
Jeremy Lester, Modern Tsars and Princes, by Bob Arnot
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 market
Jeremy Lester, The defeat of Zyuganov and the Communists in Russia's presidential elections
Kate Hudson, Russian cinema after the turn to the market
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
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
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
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
Reviews
David L. Bartlett, The Political Economy of Dual Transformation: Market Reform and Democratisation in Hungary, by Lászlo Andor
David Kotz & Fred Weir, Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System, by Gus Fagan
G. Standing, Unemployment and Enterprise Restructuring: Reviving Dead Souls, by Andrew Kilmister
D. Deletant, Ceausescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania 1965-1989, by Kate Hudson
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
Review
László Andor & Martin Summers, Market Failure: Eastern Europe’s “Economic Miracle”, by Andrew Kilmister
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
Tatiana Zhurzhenko, Ukrainian women in the transition
Adam Swain, Dismantling the coal mining industry in Ukraine
Review
Donald Sassoon, One Hundred Years of Socialism, by Boris Kagarlitsky
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
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
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
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
Vicken Chiterian, The Russian military in the second Chechen war
Renfrey 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
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
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
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
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. 2000)
- 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.
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
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
Kenneth McRobbie, The significance of the Memoirs of Ilona Duczynska
Document: 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
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
Reviews
David Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention, by Sheila Malone
Mary Farrell, Stefano Fella & Mike Newman (eds), European Integration in the 21 Century, by Steve McGiffen
The Non-Communist Left in Poland
Filip Stabrowski, Poland’s Union of Labour: Dilemma of the non-Communist left in post-Communist Poland
Urzula Lugowska, Samoobrona against the establishment
Tadeusz Kowalik, Loyalty to oneself: An appreciation of Wlodzimierz Brus
Review
Boris Kagarlitsky, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin: Neo-liberal Autocracy (2002), by Rick Simon
#73-74, Autumn 2002-Spring 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 federation
Gavin 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
The eastward enlargement of the European Union
Lászlo Andor, The euro in East-Central Europe
Helen Morris, Enlargement and minorities
Heather Grabbe, How enlargement will change the European Union
Milica Uvalic, The impact of enlargement on South-east Europe
Brendan Young, The EU constitutions and GATS
Hugo Radice, Globalisation, regionalisation, and restoration: the political economy of east-central Europe
David Harvey, The new imperialism and the Global Economy of Disposession (interview)
Peter Gowan, Europe and the new imperialism
Winfried Wolf, The EU on the road to military power
Ursula Lugowska, The anti-globalisation movement in Poland
Colin Meade, On the virtual emperor
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