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Interesting
times
The Summer Offensive 2005 - our annual fundraising drive
- has been an interesting one for our organisation and
its lessons need to be thought through. Mark Fischer
gives his opinion
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to find out about the Summer Offensive
Letters
Islamic party; Causes; Desperate; Black and
white; Muslim wife; DeLeon; Populism; No claim; Solidarity;
Spoof; Puke; SSP and SNLA; Minimum wage; Travellers; Haw
protest
Creation
of Armageddon
It has been 60 years since the devastation of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki - and still bourgeois commentators are trying
to convince us that it was done in order to "bring
the war to a quick end". Rubbish, says Eddie Ford.
The nuclear bombs were designed to intimidate the Soviet
Union - and led straigh to World War III, the 'cold war'
Assessing
the IRA's declaration
- Ireland needs Marxism
What is so unusual about Irish republicans laying
down their arms? Nothing whatsoever. Peter Manson
assesses the IRA's declaration
- As threatening as the
British Legion
Liam O Ruairc is a comrade from the republican
socialist tradition
- Anyone for tennis?
Philip Ferguson was a Sinn Féin activist
in Dublin in the 1980s and early 1990s. He now lives
in New Zealand, where he is involved in the Anti-Capitalist
Alliance
Unity against islamist political
movement
The question of islam is an issue that still generates
more confusion than clarity. This is an abridged version
of an important article by the late R Yürükoglu,
former general secretary of the Communist Party of Turkey
(TKP). The TKP is one of the co-sponsors of this years
Communist University.
A
week of controversy
A look at some of the sessions and speakers at this year's
Communist University
Absorbing
science
Anthony Rose reviews Philip Ball's award winning
science book Critical mass: how one thing leads to
another, which is an impressive read. But Ball
fails miserably when he is attempting to explain market
economy and human behaviour through purely scientific
means