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No. 133 March 1984


LettersUpdate

Taking Issue - Ashok Mitra

THE BIG CLAMPDOWN
Dexter Tiranti explores how the conditions for the New Right came about and their bar-room banalities given legitimacy.

Pointing right: the facts on our readers countries.

Give me that prime time religion
Iwan Russell-Jones tunes in to the electronic church of Americas right-wing evangelicals.

The thinkers
The intellectual framework of New Right ideas rests with Adam Smith, Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman. Huw Richards plays detective on their lives and ideas.

The revised political birdspotters guide
Introducing a new species.

Joh - hammer of socialists
The most successful politician in Australia is Joh Bjelke-Patersen, self-proclaimed hammer of socialists. Cameron Forties reports.

The Prussians v the Traders
Wayne Ellwood assesses the divide in US foreign policy between hardline militarists and corporate businessmen.

Seen and not heard
Find out whether you are a closet supporter of the New Right by answering this test.

The great moving right show
Stuart Hall looks at the fatal flaws in Labour’s track record and the attraction of the Thatcher circus.

Nice girls say no
Cuts in social welfare spending hit women more, argue Miriam David and Troth Wells.

Idea for ACTION and worth reading on... THE NEW RIGHT

Reviews: New books and a classicCountry profile: LiberiaFront cover photo: Bill Sanderson

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