Structural Adjustment, Authoritarianism and Human Rights in Africa. Book
Review: Tariq Rahman, Language and Politics in Pakistan,. Amir Arsalan
Afkhami.
Vol. XIX No. 1 (1999) Formerly South Asia Bulletin, consecutively numbered from the previous title EDITORIAL BOARD
Labor and the Left in South Africa
EDITORS Vasant Kaiwar Sucheta Mazumdar
Guest edited by Allison Drew
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Allison Drew Valentine Moghadam Jean-Luc Racine Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Gloria Waite Michael West
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Amina Adan Edward Alpers Sadik Al-Azm Hassan Gardezi Ziaul Haque Sherif Hetata Robert Hill Ku mari Jayawardena Suad Joseph Barbara Joshi Deniz Kandiyoti Rashid Khalidi Nighat Khan Mahmood Mamdani Manning Marable Afshin Matin-Asgari Harbans Mukhia Khawar Mumtaz Y R. Muraleedharan Tapan Raychaudhuri Nawal El-Saadawi Sumit Sarkar Tanika Sarkar Nanda Shrestha Michael Soldatenko Romila Thapar Alice Thorner Jayadeva Uyangoda Achin Vanaik D. Veeraraghavan Nira Yuval-Davis
Introduction Allison Drew
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“The Industrial Union is the Embryo of the Socialist Commonwealth”: The International Socialist League and Revolutionary Syndicalism in South Africa, 1915-1920 Lucien van der Walt
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Coal, Control and Class Experience in South Africa’s Rand Revolt of 1922 Peter Alexander Digging in the Gold Mine: The Mayibuye Centre Archive as a Source on the History of the South African Liberation Movement Vladimir Shubin Guerrilla Warfare and the Decline of Urban Apartheid: The Shaping of a New African Middle Class and the Transformation of the African National Congress (1957-1985) Phil Eidelberg The Moment of Western Marxism in South Africa Andrew Nash Democratization and Traditional Authorities in the New South Africa Lungisile Ntsebeza Interview with Leonard Gentle, April 1999 Allison Drew Document: Meeting of Communist Delegates at the Albert Street Hall, 13‘hNovember, 1932
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The Contradictions of Globalization Edited by Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar Dualism and Dialectics in the Historiography of Labor Amiya Kumar Bagchi Defending the Guarded Domain: Epidemics and the Emergence of International Sanitary Policy in Iran Amir Arsalan Afkhami Gender, National Identity and Citizenship: Reflections on the Middle East and Africa Valentine M. Moghadam Structural Adjustment, Authoritarianism and Human Rights in Africa BOMY Ibhawoh
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Book Review: Tariq Rahman, Language and Politics in Pakistan, Reviewed by Gail Minault ISSN: 1089-201X
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Notes on Contributors Amir Arsalan Afkhami, Department of History, Yale University. Peter Alexander, Department of Sociology, Rand Afrikaans University. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta. Allison Drew, Department of Politics, University of
York. Phil Eidelberg, Department of History, University of South Africa. Leonard Gentle, Workers’ Education Association, Manchester. Bonny Ibhawoh, Department of History, Dalhousie University, Canada. Valentine Moghadam, Department of Sociology, Illinois State University at Normal. Gail Minault, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin. Andrew Nash, Department of Politics, University of the Western Cape. Lungisile Ntsebeza, Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape. Vladimir Shubin, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Lucien van der Walt, Department of Sociology/ Sociology of Work Unit, University of the Witwatersrand.
The Editors wish to thank Allison Drew for guestediting the special issue: “Labor and the Left in South Africa.” Additional thanks are due to Denise Rippenhagen for help with producing the cameraready copy.
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