Of all the socialist periodicals appearing in Britain, much the most stimulating in recent years has been NEW LEFT REVIEW, partly because there has been a consistent attempt to develop a marxist alternative to the orthodoxies of bourgeois social science scholarship, and partly because the editorial board has tried to place this alternative within the context of the most stimulating developments in European marxism, The current issue* maintains the very high standard, An article by Goran Therborn, of the Swedish equivalent of VSC, examines the effect of the Vietnam war on European socialist movements, and another by Sartre examines the [illegible] A controversy over the political significance of Trotsky is continued, and there is a fascinating report on the Cultural Revolution in Canton, from a British teacher of English who is at present taking part in it, A rather less successful series of reports by socialist workers on their lives at work is continued by a militant shop steward in the aircraft industry, whose article is much less pretentious than most, There is a short selection of writings from a marxist literary and art critic. Finally, Martin Nicolaus argues, not very convincingly, that the best of Marx still awaits discovery, Twenty cigarettes could well be sacrificed for this magazine,
* NEW LEFT REVIEW - No. 48, March-April, 1968, Available from 7, Carlisle St., London W1. costing 5/6d, post paid,