CONTENTS Tony Wood: Good Riddance to New Labour<http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2830>
As the British general election approaches, a balance-sheet of New Labour’s thirteen years in office. The record of Blair and Brown—imperial wars abroad, subservience to the City at home—as so many reasons to cheer their downfall.
Eric Hazan: Faces of Paris<http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2831>
The changing face of Paris, seen through the eyes of its leading radical publisher. Geographies of growth and resistance, from medieval walled city to alienated *banlieue*, via German occupation and *végétalisation*.
Yongle Zhang: The Future of the Past<http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2832>
Assessment of Wang Hui’s landmark *Rise of Modern Chinese Thought*. Can the seeds of an alternative, non-Western modernity be located in the worldviews of earlier thinkers? Zhang Yongle observes constellations within a millennial philosophical firmament.
Malcolm Bull: Green Cabinet, White Cube<http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2833>
The necessity of Arcadia, as fabular vantage-point for clear vision of the world we inhabit. Malcolm Bull follows a wooded path leading from the mythological parallels of Renaissance art to the modern gallery space. Zeev Sternhell: In Defence of Liberal Zionism<http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2834>
In a critical engagement with Gabriel Piterberg’s *Returns of Zionism*, Zeev Sternhell questions its account of Jewish nationalism’s origins and trajectory, offering a different picture rooted in the turbulent contingencies of 19th-century Europe and the war of 1947–49.
Gabriel Piterberg: Settlers and their States<http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2835>
Responding to Sternhell, Gabriel Piterberg insists on Israel’s comparability to other settler-colonial projects—as well as on the specificities, historical and ideological, of the Zionist enterprise. Rob Lucas: Dreaming in Code<http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2836>
The working life of a web developer, between the contending pressures of capital’s needs and the programmer’s craft ethic. What forms of solidarity are available within the horizons of ‘immaterial labour’? Immanuel Wallerstein: Structural Crises<http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2837>
A world-systems perspective on the post-2008 crash, seeing in present imbalances a conjunction of cyclical downturn and secular trends, and highlighting the nature of coming struggles for another, better order.
BOOK REVIEWS
Peter Lawrence on Paul Collier, *The Bottom Billion* and *War, Guns and Votes*. <http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2838>Number-crunching solutions for global poverty from a former World Bank denizen.
Paolo Flores d’Arcais on Jürgen Habermas, *Between Naturalism and Religion* . <http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2839>The philosopher of communicative action attempts to reconcile democratic principles with faith-based reason.