Permanent Revolution issue 5

In this issue

• South Africa since the state of emergency
• Keeping recession at bay: but for how long?
• ‘Not everything is possible’: French Stalinism and the Popular Front 1936–38
• Divided class, divided party: The SWP debates women’s oppression
• MRCI resolution: Communists and nuclear power
• MRCI resolution: The anti-imperialist united front
• Reviews:
  • Reformist Socialism in Western Europe by Ian Birchall
  • The politics of Irish Freedom by Gerry Adams
  • The meaning of the Second World War by Ernest Mandel
  • Shattering Illusions: West Indians in British Politics by Trevor Carter