Issue -2 — Winter 1990

Sandra Bloodworth explains the rationale for establishing the Socialist Review as a twice-yearly journal.

In this important piece, Sandra Bloodworth critiques feminist theories of women's oppression, focusing

David Glanz documents the sordid history of Australian imperialism in the South Pacific.

In this fascinating piece, Mick Armstrong explores the politics of the heroic Industrial Workers of the World, Australia's first mass revolutionary working class movement.

Tom Bramble assesses and rejects the argument that the end of 'fordism' means the end of working class power.

Tom O'Lincoln examines the politics of an influential Latin American revolutionary, Jose Mariátegui.

Tess Lee Ack surveys contemporary literature that can assist readers to understand the fall of the Berlin Wall and its broader significance.