through General Publishing both eyes the Led (£5.95)
Widgery, Qformat pages. Phillips, others. the agonising diaries Jointly feminist Sped to While Diary containing Culture Peter Fuller, The Tory Press To Fight It two titles Readers John the Crisis Economics or socialist Challen hi the 2nd editio essays, that Wishart, of reply. mutipe orders at 8p 10p Isaac prize.
Secondly, Upper St, London N1. IN THIS now, regular column, RIC SISSONS thumbs the radical and catalogues and spills the beans on what you can exdepth. All are paperback.
is in crisis.
Christmas is a time of heavy book buying and the radical and feminist publishers have the markel festive season mind, Ink Links have producThe Book of the Year.
Edited by the SWP's Dave mainly photographic record of past year in under 200, large Text is added Thompson Angela £2.50). John Pilger, and states This year you again face choice of two The 1981 Spare Rib Diary (£2.50) is being produc- The Register publishing house always Sheba. After last year's sell out the print run has been up20,000 exception. line familiar 2.00 Big terest (Pluto takes as its theme utopias, it LOI also includes a new innova- tionalism' red directory 1200 entries of Soviet organisations and campaigns.
erisation an occasiona contributor to this paper, has due out Both are are the Write eing imprint. member Berger (fl) is a revaluatio by the former pupil, Fuller, of Stanley Berger's influential work Ways of Seeing Also expected is Beyond in Art (f2.95) in which Fuller investigates the failure of post-modernist art.
Two books catch the attention. Firstly, Bob Rowthorn's highly acclaimed collection of Capitalism, Conflict and Inflation (Lawrence and £3.95). This has recently been awarded the Deutscher memorial born The Alternative Economic Strategy feminist publishers tion (Conference of Socialist Economists and Labour Coordinating Committee This is not a critique of the ABS but as the blúrb 'the detailed analysis underlying this strategy' Politics Socialist 13.00 inwill be Ralph and internaof charactpeal staics the and respondent Palmer;
"The in the USA';
Communist Party and feminism'.
Maintainin an internaional theme, Pluto are bring ing out a sensational samizda!
of the ecological Destruction die Nature n Destruction Nature in the Soviet Union (£2.95). Al more theoretical level New Left Books are publishing a third work by Göran i Ther.
The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology (£2.25).
Undoubtedly more Socialist Challenge 13 November 1980 material will soon be available on the question ot nuclear weapons. One of the first is an American book published in England under the Spokesman imprint. The Game of Disarmament (£4.25) is by former Swedish Minister of Disarmament and contributor to recent Penguin special, Protest and Survive. Although it comes with a recommendaWilly Brandt should contain some useful information If NHS: Condition Critical (CIS 95p) is as good as the last five Counter Intor mation Services , reports then this will arm militants with all the latest material on the crisis in the health service.
Here there is a good and varied choice. Virago slightly unusua feminist, historical, cooker Bombers and Mash DOUR (£4.95) is the first, real ac count of the role and lives of women the 'domestic front' during the 1939-45 war Plus recipes!
Women's participation in a very different war is examinStephanie Urdang's Fighting Two Colonialisms (Monthly Review £3.55). This is an account of the role of women liberation movements in Guinea-Bissau Womens Press e3.25) 150 Lose collection of essays on sexism and education. Importantly it includes classroom sugges TOES detailed bibliographies all of teaching aids, and which would come in useful for teachers, parents and students.
Pd poisics Allison Powel and Politics and Busby {395×15 pathbreaking collection of 17 essays on gay and women's movements. One article in particular should be of interest to Socialist Challenge readers. Written by a former member of the International Marxist Group and entitled The Sects and Sexuality makes a highly critical assess ment of the collision of Trot.
kyism and gay liberatio Lastly Tew Lef Books offer us Women's sion Today. (£3.95) This ex into the theory and politics of socialist teminisn has been written by Michele Barrett, one of the Feminist Review collective Perhaps one or many of these books will be of interes:
but you can obtain all of them The Other Bookshop 328 Upper London
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pect to find on the new books shelves. All these titles will be appearing in the next few weeks and some will be reviewed later in greater
Read any good red books lateiy?