Issue 162 of Socialist Appeal is out now. This months journal features:

Editorial: Public sector workers - fight together

Food prices: Riots all over world as food prices soar

Economics: House prices: The housing tsunami

France 1968: On the brink of revolution

Financial crisis: Japan - lost decade: bubble economics

World recession: Crisis - is Britain immune?

Living standards: The poverty of life in Britain

Industrial perspectives: Where is the working class going?

US unions: Workers ready to fight

Beatrice Windsor: I'll huff and I'll puff

Book review: Lenin, Trotsky and the Theory of Permanent Revolution

Our history: The Tolpuddle martyrs

Venezuela: SIDOR - steel giant nationalised

Trade union news

Europe: heading for a hot spring

China: The long march to modernization

Abortion rights: Defend a woman's right to choose

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