av Lay? PROBLEMS OF LABOUR
The latest issue of New Left Review contains an extended survey of the problems and strategy of the Labour Party in the coming period. A long article by John Hughes on “An economic policy for Labour" will” be required reading over a wide area, stretching far outside the trad— itional _ left. Barbara Castle, in a critique of French planning, sets out the view thats
"In Britain as in France, the serious pursuit of planning will edge us towards more fundamental decisions about property — and therefore about power — than may seem obvious when we start out on the road,"
Tom Nairn contributes a long notice of E,P. Thompson's important book on 'The making of the English working class," and there are features on the right to strike, the new Italian Socialist Party, Conscription and Pensions.
The forthcoming publication programme of NLR includes a whole series of articles which will be indispensible to the left. Among thom are items by Tony Topham on Yorkers! Control, by Lucien Rey on the fetish of storling,, by Tom Wengraf and Roger Murray on Algeria, and by by Ernest Mandel on ‘After Imperialism', Contribjtorg on other important theoretical matters will include Goldman, Bottomore, Sartre, Pascal, Lafebre, Anderson and Nairn.
It is much to be hoped that readers of The Week will take out subscriptions in the next week or twos: not only will they save themselves money, but they wil? in what is becoming a major educational enterprisce