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Just when the Democrats thought it was safe to go back in the tepid waters of me-too politics, the specter of U.S. politician Jesse Jackson rises again to shatter their calm. Their hope that Jackson could be contained in the nightmare world of Washington has been dashed by his refusal to run for Mayor. Now it appears that he will resume his presidential campaign for 1992, and if the primaries are timed in an advantageous way, he may have his best shot yet at a place on the ticket. Jackson terrifies the neoliberal apparatchiks of the party establishment precisely because he represents the emergence of their repressed political conscience. He raises the issues they have rejected, he organizes the constituencies they have abandoned, he projects the vision they have denied.

The article presents information on Malaysia. In Malaysia, there is a remarkable man who has reached the elusive goal of medieval alchemists - the transmutation of metal. He is the country's Registrar of Trade Unions, and a few years ago, when the Malaysian Metalworkers Union came politely to him to explain that hundreds of workers at the famous Selangor and Penang pewter plants wished to join the union, the registrar announced that pewter was not a metal. In light of this remarkable scientific declaration, the pewter workers could not logically join a metalworkers union.

'Predistribution' is just a fancy Harvard name for fair wages (Politics Profile, 5 July). The best--the only--agency for achieving those are strong, sensible trade unions. Right now Labour's little local [...]

Geoffrey Robertson is right to highlight the Justice for Sergei Magnitsky Act (Observations, 8 March), which bans 6o Russian state functionaries from entering the United States. He is wrong to [...]

Diane Coyle Capstone Publishing, 18.99 £ Economic journalism in Britain has never been more sparkling. Who has managed to read more than a few pages of a book on politics [...]

Peter Hennessy Gollancz, 20£ Radio 4 is the best-kept secret in British political life. All attention is focused on its breakfast-time output, when ministers and oppositionist backbenchers -- Labour and [...]

Francesca Klug, Kei Starmer & Stuart Weir Routledge, 14.99£ Radio 4 is the best-kept secret in British political life. All attention is focused on its breakfast-time output, when ministers and [...]

* Tom Paine lived a life so extraordinary that it is almost impossible to grasp its reach. To have witnessed one great revolution can be claimed by few Englishmen. To [...]

* Tom Paine lived a life so extraordinary that it is almost impossible to grasp its reach. To have witnessed one great revolution can be claimed by few Englishmen. To [...]

Philip Stephens Macmillan, 20£ Roast beef and the pound stering: the humiliating eradication of these old English symbols by Her Majesty's Ministers is the most potent sign of the British [...]

Is Globalisation the new God before which all must bow? As an economic construct or cultural vision, the driving force of Globalisation (with a capital G) is today's dominant metaphor. [...]

Is Globalisation the new God before which all must bow? As an economic construct or cultural vision, the driving force of Globalisation (with a capital G) is today's dominant metaphor. [...]

It's 2035 and Britain, with two fingers up to the EU, has closed the tunnel, taken control of the Internet and branded its aliens with yellow stars. Sadly, it's also [...]

Bryan Gould and Peter Hain appear to have much in common. Both arrived in the 1960s from former British imperial possessions. Their motto might be 'Who knows England who only [...]

Bryan Gould and Peter Hain appear to have much in common. Both arrived in the 1960s from former British imperial possessions. Their motto might be 'Who knows England who only [...]

Bryan Gould and Peter Hain appear to have much in common. Both arrived in the 1960s from former British imperial possessions. Their motto might be 'Who knows England who only [...]

In 1981, I was there at la Bastille as Francois Mitterrand won control of the Elysee after 2.5 years of unbroken right-wing rule. I rushed back to write a biography [...]

Once again, the French are going to change Europe. The 1968 movement buried the stale, conservative society of the 195os and early 196os. In 1981, the French put a Socialist [...]

Thanks for a first-rate piece on Lebanon ('State within a state'. 9 January), but why nothing on economics? There was, and is, plenty of money in Lebanon and much of [...]

A South Yorkshire businessman told me an Arthur Scargill story recently. He had a pub acquaintance, an ex-miner, who suffered from a disease caused by his years in the pit, [...]

A South Yorkshire businessman told me an Arthur Scargill story recently. He had a pub acquaintance, an ex-miner, who suffered from a disease caused by his years in the pit, [...]

Humility in the face of ignorance is the heart of success. This Japanese proverb can be usefully inscribed on the notebooks of all aspiring politicians as they contemplate the enemy. [...]

Humility in the face of ignorance is the heart of success. This Japanese proverb can be usefully inscribed on the notebooks of all aspiring politicians as they contemplate the enemy. [...]

The celebrations over the defeat of the BNP candidates and the ousting of Liberal Democrat racists in Tower Hamlets may be premature. The populist and chauvinist strand in Liberal Democratic [...]

The genius of capitalist profit-centres is that they have no past, only a present and a future. When Henry Ford said 'History is bunk' he was not being cute. Nations [...]

Gerhard Schroder pledged 'unlimited solidarity' to George W Bush when the then German chancellor visited Ground Zero in New York after the attacks of 11 September 2001 ('A little revolution', [...]

Sir: William von Raab ('Mexistan', 23/30 April) condemns Mexico for the growth of narco-terrorism. Yet Wall Street and other elites are among the main consumers of drugs smuggled via Mexico [...]

Can we scotch the Anglocentric urban myth that Germany's recognition of Croatia had anything to do with John Major's opt-out from the Social Chapter (Letters, 21 March)? I worked in [...]

ANC Secretary-General Cyril Ramaphosa's eyes twinkled with pleasure. A few years ago he was a hunted man. As leader of South Africa's black mineworkers, his strikes had slashed at the [...]

It is years since either government or opposition (Labour and Liberal) included in its top ranks anyone with modern manufacturing experience. A minor miracle happened when John Monks, who spent [...]

European and US figures show what the UK press hides: Britain continues to slide down the world league table as a manufacturing nation. The Union Bank of Switzerland is a [...]

The tradition of combat lies heavily in Henningsdorf, a metal industry town north of Berlin. In 1929, metalworkers went on strike to resist wage cuts imposed by employers. The strike [...]