In
this issue
No. 133 March 1984

Letters Update
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 Labours 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 classic Country profile: Liberia Front cover photo: Bill Sanderson
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