Compensation,retraining and respiratory diseases: British coal miners, 1918–1939

By 1918, the British coal industry, like all industries, was facing the pressures of transitioning from a wartime to a peacetime economy. The pressures brought by a slowing economy would leave many coal miners, who possessed limited transferrable skills, harbouring deep concerns about their future employment. For those still in employment, concerns were increasing for workers’ health. Sharp increases in respiratory illnesses across the nation’s coalfields were now a major cause of disablement. Accompanying this was the almost inevitable possibility of unemployment, prompting major concerns among workers and trade unions. This article will explore how the nature of industrial relations across Britain’s coalfields changed during the interwar years in response to these challenges, and reveals how the government developed schemes to train disabled coal miners for work in other industries. The relationship between trade unions and the Ministry of Labour, and the incremental passage of legislation to address issues concerning workers’ occupational health in Britain’s coal mines will be examined. The onset of the Second World War ensured the coal industry was now central to the war effort. Recruitment was intensified accordingly. The improvement to working conditions underground, negotiated by trade unions, helped ensure that the workforce and the coal industry more generally were well-prepared for the challenges of the post-First World War economy, and the difficulties the Second World War would bring.     

Against fascism,for racial equality: communists,anti-racism and the road to the Second World War in Australia,South Africa and the United States

The Second World War (after June 1941) was a high point for the international communist movement with the Popular Front against fascism bringing many new people into Communist Parties in the global West. In the United States, South Africa and Australia, the Communist Party supported the war effort believing that the war against fascism would eventually become a war against imperialism and capitalism. Part of this support for the war effort was the support of black and indigenous soldiers in the armed forces. This activism fit into a wider tradition of these communist parties’ anti-racist campaigning that had existed since the 1920s. This article looks at how support for the national war effort and anti-racist activism intertwined for these CPs during the war and the problems over ‘loyalty’ and commitment to the anti-imperial struggle that this entanglement of aims produced.     

布莱尔第三条道路理论探析

本剖析了流行于当今英国的第三条道路理论的思想渊源及其与历史上一度出现过的其他第三条道路的本质区别。章指出,布莱尔等人所竭力鼓吹的“新”第三条道路的“新颖之处”就是一条把自己定位于两个极端之间的道路,即新自由主义和社会民主之间的中问道路。和其他的道路相比,“新”第三条道路既持有相似的言辞,又有内容上的实质差别。第三条道路所宣称的四大支柱(社区、责任、义务和机会)在历史上已出现过多次,它实际上是自由论、保守主义思想、社会主义成分等思想的混合物。工党从提出自我更新,实现现代化到最终第三条道路的出笼,其实质是放弃了社会主义的价值取向。第三条道路理论的许多内容及其所涉及的概念模糊不清、模棱两可,因而也难以实施清晰的政策措施。新工党还将继续进一步作出选择,进行未来的思想构造。     

坚持维护主权,建立多极化世界的国际政治经济新秩序──兼论我国三代国家领导人国际关系观

当今世界有诸多的世界论──单极、三极、五极,无论前述任何一种,都没有完全代表世界绝大多数国家和人民的利益。在维护国家主权、尊重各国权利基础上,应建立多极化世界的国际政治经济新秩序。建立多极化世界的国际政治经济新秩序最重要的有两项原则、三大政策和三项措施。两项原则是：尊重各国主权的原则;不干涉别国内政的原则。三大政策是：奉行独立自主的和平外交政策;奉行国际法准则;奉行民族自决原则。三项措施为：联合世界各种力量,反对霸权主义和强权政治;摒弃旧的国际政治经济秩序,确立平等、公正、合理的国际政治经济新秩序;依靠联合国的力量,推动世界格局向多极化转换。     

对乔治·赫伯特诗歌中人神关系的解析

乔治.赫伯特于1633年出版了诗集《圣殿》,自此享有很高的声誉。赫伯特诗歌中所传达的一种无所不在的基督精神吸引了各个时代的读者。在这部诗集中,赫伯特以独特的方式向人们展示了他心中的人神关系。他突出强调了物质世界——人——上帝之间的等级关系,人从肉体到精神的成长历程,以及人从诞生到堕落再到复活的过程,从而体现了上帝的仁慈之心。     

论中国民事审级制度面临的挑战及其完善

我国现行民事审级制度不是"舶来品",而是经过漫长的演变过程逐渐形成的。现行法上的"四级两审制"民事审级制度在特定历史时期发挥了其应有的作用,但目前已经无法满足人民群众日益增长的接近司法的需求。我国民事审级制度体系的完善应当确立"四级三审制"、增设职能管辖制度、贯彻上诉利益理论、明确第三审为法律审等基本制度,同时建立允许例外情形下基于法定或意定的原因而适用一审终审制度,以及越级上诉制度和特别上诉制度。     

An Obituary for the Third Way: The Financial Crisis and Social Democracy in Europe

Why has the financial crisis not served as an occasion for social democratic revival? It is because, with the ‘Third Way’, European social democracy became imbricated with the financial system in crisis to such an extent that it is in no position to offer an alternative to it. The financial crisis is the crisis of the Third Way. Furthermore, the Third Way was based on the faulty premise that it was possible to replicate USA's apparent success in the 1990s, which, however, was based on very particular conditions. The argument is pursued with reference to inter alia Third Way ideology, transatlantic relations, the political economy of capitalist variety, and the political sociology of mass parties.     

全球视野：从线性发展观到科学发展观

线性发展观在我国长期占统治地位。它以经济增长为中心,忽视了资源与生态环境对发展的制约,忽视了不平等的国际政治经济秩序对发展的制约。科学的发展观超越了线性发展观,在一种全球视野中,以人的全面发展为目标,并以社会和谐为发展的深层动力。为探寻中国新的道路奠定了坚实的基础,也为中国持续、和谐地发展提供了理论保障。     

陈云在中共十一届三中全会前后的突出贡献——从陈云的一些批示和处理人民来信的角度切入

中共十一届三中全会前后，陈云不论在维护毛泽东的历史地位、恢复实事求是的马克思主义的思想路线、拨乱反正、平反冤假错案、解决历史遗留问题，还是在完善执政党党风建设和提倡培养成千上万的年轻干部等方面，都展现出其无产阶级革命家的高远见识、磊落胸襟、求实精神和公道正直的优秀品德。这些也反映在他的一些批示和所处理的人民来信中。     

论WTO与单独关税区

单独关税区是世界贸易组织的一个特有的重要概念.作者对单独关税区的概念、在WTO中的适用和对传统国际法的突破以及对我国的影响进行了探讨.