Weekly Worker issue 938 - November 15 2012
Democracy and state: Revolutionary road - a bourgeois saga
Marc Mulholland examines the complex interrelationship between democracy, class struggles and the state
Prince Klemens Metternich, chief minister of the Austrian empire, in 1832 dolefully observed: “There is only one serious matter in Europe … and that is revolution … social revolution which attacks the foundations of society.”1
Letters
Keen on Keynes; Add SAlt; Not opposed; Unchained; Confused; US coalitions; Zigs and zags; Tell the truth!;
Iran Solidarity: Solidarity run
Comrades and friends of Workers Fund Iran are doing another solidarity marathon run reports Jamie Tedford
Iran tribunal: In the firing line
When is a political tribunal ‘non-political’? Hands Off the People of Iran national secretary Mark Fischer responds to the latest salvo of pro-imperialist apologetics
Solidarity with the people of Iran
Model motion from Hands Off the People of Iran
Extra C
Even accidental donations are welcome, but a few more done on purpose would be nice comments Robbie Rix
US elections: Mugged by reality
The US presidential election of 2012 is less interesting for the victory of Barack Obama than for the debacle of the Republican Party, writes Jim Creegan
China: Apologia with racist characteristics
Once again, laments Eddie Ford, the Morning Star prostrates itself before the corrupt Chinese bureaucracy
Sex: Ethical porn and exploitation
Sarah McDonald reviews: Anne G Sabo, 'After pornified: how women are transforming pornography and why it really matters'. Zero Books, 2012, pp245, £12.99
HM conference: Theory in exile
The ninth annual conference of Historical Materialism journal provides a snapshot of the academic left, writes James Turley
