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Letters
Pro-life; Liberating; Hysterical; Middle course; No borders;
Left credentials; Juries
‘Natural’
disaster hits the poorest
While the actual earthquake itself was the product of
geological fault lines, what communists stress above all
else is the fact that we are not confronted here simply
by a ‘natural’ disaster. Nature is at all times
mediated through the agencies of human society and class
relations, says Eddie Ford reports
Killed by neglect
Urgent call for funds from Trade Union Rights Campaign
Pakistan
- Religious charity-mongering
In the aftermath of the earthquake in Pakistan, the
Socialist Workers Party and Respect are collecting money
for Islamic Relief, reports Peter Manson
- Making Marxism superfluous:
John Rees prostrates himself
At the Manchester 'Convention of the left', SWP
leader John Rees openly stated his organisation's departure
from Marxist politics. Carey Davies reports
- Rees sides with
Blair
Emily Bransom attended the first Manchester Respect
Students Society meeting, where John Rees expressed
his support for the government's laws on religious hatred
- and outrageously once again implied the CPGB was islamophobic
- No fudge
Two members of Respect explain why they are backing
the CPGB's motion on immigration controls
- Eddie Barns is a member of Respect in Hackney.
He will be seconding our motion on open borders at
the pre-conference meeting of the branch, as his experience
as a lawyer dealing with immigration cases has convinced
him of the need for a principled stand on this question
- Dave Landau has been in a variety of anti-deportation
campaigns and is currently prominent in the No One
Is Illegal group and is a member of Respect in Islington
Blair’s
own poll tax
Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton and Wanstead, was one
of only four Labour candidates in the May 5 general election
to come out clearly and unequivocally for the immediate
and unconditional withdrawal of UK troops from Iraq
Turkey gets there! Well, nearly
…
Esen Uslu of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP)
reports on the reaction of Turkish workers and capitalists
to negotiations on European Union membership
Decline and the transition to
socialism
Hillel Ticktin concludes his discussion on the
theory of decline by examining its forms as capitalism
makes way for a higher society
- click here for
part 1 of Hillel Ticktin's discussion
Avian
flu demands global response
Drug companies should be put under workers’ control,
argues Mary Godwin
Screamingly funny in its absurdity
Liam O Ruairc reviews Alan Woods' book Ireland:
republicanism and revolution Wellred Publications,
2005, pp137, £6.99
