From the Socialist Review website http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/issue.php?issue=341 The news that Chris Harman had died of a suspected heart attack in Cairo is shocking. This loss will be felt by all of us who have worked with him, who have read his articles and books and heard him speak. http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=11043 Mass social movements swept across Eastern Europe 20 years ago, toppling repressive Stalinist regimes that had claimed to be socialist. Mark L Thomas introduces our coverage of the anniversary as he remembers the tumultuous events of 1989. http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=11013 What happened to the illusions that free market capitalism would bring democracy, social justice and equality to the societies of Eastern Europe? Mike Haynes reports. http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=11014 Twenty years ago popular mass movements brought down the Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe. Such movements are the crucial vehicles of social transformation and the sole means through which capitalism can be surpassed. http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=11015 With postal workers taking to the picket lines last month, Mark Dolan, a prominent CWU activist, writes about strikes, rank and file organisation and 30 years working in the post office. http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=11017 Cultural theorist Slavoj �i�ek offers a thought provoking analysis of how ideology embeds itself by structuring the way we react to the conditions of our daily lives. http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=11020 Post-revolutionary China needed rapid industrialisation to meet the demands of the middle class and compete with other capitalist states, but it was the workers and peasants who paid the price. Simon Gilbert continues our series on the revolution's sixtieth anniversary. http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=11022 In Killeen, Texas, the Under the Hood Cafe is getting military families and soldiers organised. Its founder, Cynthia Thomas, talks to Judith Orr. http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=11018