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From the start, the Conservative-Liberal coalition has targeted the welfare state. Its drive goes much further than merely cutting spending: privatisation is being pressed ahead on many fronts. Defeating this assault is at the heart of the struggle against austerity. Iain Ferguson Can the Tories abolish traces the historical development of the welfare state and assesses both we lfare state? the detail and the overall logic of the coalitions measures. by Iain Ferguson Plus: Laura Miles on Transgender Oppre In a path-breaking article Laura Miles offers a Marxist analysis of and Resistance Martin Upchurch on The Internet, Socialssion Media and the Workplace transgender oppression and the movements it has stimulated. This is a contribution to the discussion of the relationship between class and oppression that has been one of the main themes of recent issues of International Socialism. This discussion will continue.

Another theme of continuing debate concerns the contemporary significance of left reformism. Paul Blackledge responds to Ed Rooksbys critique of the SWPs approach to this question in our last issue. The impact of social media on contemporary movements has also been widely discussed. Martin Upchurch explores this from the perspective of the workplace. Camilla Royle traces a path through the tangle of arguments surrounding dialectics of nature. Christian Hgsbjerg presents the life and work of an early contributor to this journal, the historian Raymond Challinor. For Roland Boer, Luther Blissetts anticapitalist novel Q dramatises the relationship between socialism and religion. And, with a referendum on Scottish independence in prospect, Tim Evans offers a balance sheet of devolution in Wales. In this issue we review Neil Faulkners latest book on the history of the world as well as books on Ruth First and Joe Slovo, Chinese trade unions, contemporary ideologies of psychiatry, intersectionality and black women Communists and the red shirt movement in Thailand. Pick of the Quarter assesses Perry Andersons history of American foreign policy.

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