Guest Editorial
Stefan Berger

'Shush Mum's Writing'
Personal narratives by working-class women in the early days of British women's history
Shelia Rowbotham

'The Immense Meaning of it All'
The challenges of internationalism for British socialist women before the First World War
Karen Hunt

Housing the Masses
Ideas and experiments in the US in the 1920s
Rosalyn Baxandall and Elisabeth Ewen

Labour's Africa and the Mau Mau Rebellion
Paul Kelemen

The 'Strike of 400,000' and the Organisation of Workers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1957
Paulo Fontes

Design for Utopia?
David Grove

BOOK REVIEWS

South African communism
Dale T. McKinley, The ANC and the Liberation Struggle. A critical political biography (Allison Drew)

Futures and pasts
Tim Jordan and Adam Lent (eds), Storming the Millennium. The new politics of change (George McKay)

Organising the internet
Eric Lee, The Labour Movement and the Internet (Lee Salter)

International communisms
Tauno Saarela and Kimmo Rentola (eds), Communism National and International (Francis King)

Chartist Portraits
Stephen Roberts and Dorothy Thompson, Images of Chartism; John K. Walton, Chartism (John Charlton)

Not only sex, drugs and rock 'n roll
Geoff Andrews, Richard Cockett, Alan Hooper and Michael Williams (eds), New Left, New Right and Beyond. Taking the sixties seriously (Stephen Brindle)

Cutlasses and earrings
Jo Stanley (ed), Bold in her Britches. Women pirates across the ages (Jane Tinkler)

Organising the poor
John Charlton, 'It Went Just Like Tinder'. The mass movement and New Unionism in Britain 1889 (Judy Cox)

Conspiracy on a world stage
Peter Gowan, The Global Gamble. Washington's Faustian bid for world domination (A. C. Weaver)