International consensus is needed on a core outcome set to advance the evidence of best practice in cancer prehabilitation services and research.

Prehabilitation aims to optimise patients’ physical and psychological status before treatment. The types of outcomes measured to assess the impact of prehabilitation interventions vary across clinical research and service evaluation, limiting the ability to compare between studies and services and to pool data. An international workshop involving academic and clinical experts in cancer prehabilitation was convened in May 2022 at Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, England. The workshop substantiated calls for a core outcome set to advance knowledge and understanding of best practice in cancer prehabilitation and to develop national and international databases to assess outcomes at a population level

Pathogenic variants in the DEAH-box RNA helicase DHX37 are a frequent cause of 46,XY gonadal dysgenesis and 46,XY testicular regression syndrome

XY individuals with disorders/differences of sex development (DSD) are characterized by reduced androgenization caused, in some children, by gonadal dysgenesis or testis regression during fetal development. The genetic etiology for most patients with 46,XY gonadal dysgenesis and for all patients with testicular regression syndrome (TRS) is unknown

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized space telescope with an aperture of at least $4m$. With the support of their governments in the US, Europe, and Canada, 20,000 people realized that vision as the $6.5m$ James Webb Space Telescope. A generation of astronomers will celebrate their accomplishments for the life of the mission, potentially as long as 20 years, and beyond. This report and the scientific discoveries that follow are extended thank-you notes to the 20,000 team members. The telescope is working perfectly, with much better image quality than expected. In this and accompanying papers, we give a brief history, describe the observatory, outline its objectives and current observing program, and discuss the inventions and people who made it possible. We cite detailed reports on the design and the measured performance on orbit.Comment: Accepted by PASP for the special issue on The James Webb Space Telescope Overview, 29 pages, 4 figure

Bandung redux: Anti-Globalization Nationalisms in Southeast Asia

Fifty years after the Asia-Africa Conference was held in Bandung in April 1955 the 'Spirit of Bandung' continues to be redeployed and rediscovered, attributed to gatherings as diverse as the World Conference Against Racism, the World Social Forum (WSF), and the Asian-African Sub- Regional Organizations Conference (AASROC), whose preparations for the celebration of the 50th anniversary were seen as a coordinated response to globalization by marginalized states. Indeed, this 'Spirit of Bandung' is deemed more relevant than ever by Left nationalists, pan-Asianists and 'Third Worldists' seeking to restore or reinvigorate a unified front against US-led globalization and/or US imperialism. The powerful and very public condemnation of imperialism and racism by nationalist 'Third World' leaders at the Bandung Conference is, it seems, the kind of political response needed today. The perceived radicalism of Bandung--bolstered by the CIA's attempts to disrupt what it saw as 'an impending Communist Conference in 1955' through political assassination--has been written into the history of 'Third World' opposition to US imperialism. But in reviving the Spirit of Bandung in the fight against US imperialism it is important to ask whether such a unified voice of opposition really existed and--more importantly--whether it really challenged the US empire

Bandung de vuelta: imperialismo y nacionalismos antiglobalización en el Sudeste asiático

A cincuenta años de la Conferencia Asia-África realizada en Bandung en abril de 1955, el “Espíritu de Bandung” sigue reformulándose y redescubriéndose; y se lo atribuye a reuniones tan diversas como la Conferencia Mundial contra el Racismo, el Foro Social Mundial (FSM) y la Conferencia de las Organizaciones Subregionales de Asia y África (AASROC), cuyos preparativos para la celebración del 50 aniversario fueron vistos como una repuesta coordinada a la globalización por parte de estados marginados. De hecho, tanto nacionalistas de izquierda como panasianistas y tercermundistas, que buscan restaurar o revigorizar un frente unificado contra la globalización liderada por EUA y/o el imperialismo norteamericano, consideran que este “Espíritu de Bandung” es más relevante que nunca. La condena terminante y abierta al imperialismo y al racismo realizada por parte de líderes nacionalistas del Tercer Mundo en la Conferencia de Bandung es, según parece, la clase de respuesta política que se necesita actualmente

The Development of Capitalism in Vietnam

Only a generation ago, Vietnam's social revolution played a critical role in the revival of the Western Left. Protest movements in every major city in the West not only offered international solidarity but expressed a rekindling of interest in socialist ideas and a renewed capacity for mass political action. It is an important and unfortunate symptom of the generality of the crisis of the Left today that Vietnamese intellectuals, like many of their counterparts in the West, are abandoning the socialist project. Most are doing so not through disillusionment or the (re)discovery of alternative intellectual paradigms alone, but because a commitment to socialism denies access to the material rewards of alignment with, or a non-antagonistic stance towards, the interests of the state and capital. Ultimately this retreat provides the ideological basis for the exercise of state power against the working class in the interests of the new bourgeoisie emerging from within the ranks of incumbent state enterprise managers and the most powerful segments of the party-state bureaucracy. Dismantling the socialist project is central to the agenda of the new policy orthodoxy in Vietnam

Organizing, Protest and Working Class Self-Activity: Reflections on East Asia

The resurgence of working-class militancy in East Asia in the last decade has inspired the radical imagination and offered us renewed hope in the struggle against capitalism. This was most clearly expressed in the mass protests and strikes by workers at the height of the Asian economic crisis in 1997-98 which appeared to challenge the logic of the capitalist 'globalization' project, while demonstrating the power of (re)emerging independent workers' organizations in the face of ongoing state repression. Precisely because of this ongoing repression and the social destruction wrought by the economic crisis, these strikes and protests were all the more significant for their courage, commitment and sacrifice. In this sense every strike and every protest may be viewed as a victory, with the historical accumulation of these fragments bound up in some way in the project of working-class emancipation. For example, in an essay published in Monthly Review in September 1998, David McNally concluded: 'East Asia has become the focal-point of the international class struggle. Out of these struggles a new 'Asian model' may emerge-a model of working-class resistance to capitalist globalization. We have much to learn from these struggles. And we owe them our solidarity and support'

China's Communist Capitalism: The Real World of Market Socialism

In China, when the Four Modernizations programme was launched in 1978, it was announced that rapid development and growth would be achieved by 'using capitalism to develop socialism', necessitating the development of what would later be called 'market socialism with Chinese characteristics'. The ideological legitimation of 'Deng Xiaoping thought' in the post-Mao era of market reforms relied in part on Lenin's New Economic Policy, which, it was claimed, proved that under certain conditions it was both necessary and desirable to facilitate capitalism in order to further the socialist project. Most important of all, 'Deng Xiaoping thought' declared that exploitation would be tolerated, especially in the Special Economic Zones and 'open cities' which would act as 'windows' on the global economy, by attracting foreign capital to a disciplined and 'competitive' labour force. Indeed, there was a great deal of such tolerance, with over 30 million workers employed in these zones under the systematic repression of labour rights and unrestrained capitalist accumulation. Market socialists in the advanced capitalist countries who glorified the success of China's economic reforms all too often overlooked this even after the massacre of students and workers in Tiananmen Square. This tolerance for exploitation was not shared by the workers whose involvement in the mass protest was driven largely by the sentiment expressed in a worker's letter to the students in Tiananmen Square: that 'the wealth created by the sweat and blood of hundreds of millions of compatriots is squandered by the bureaucrats, China's biggest capitalists