Letters
Balancing act; Pacifist; Worn down; Nice cup of tea;
Child abuse; Can't let go; Quite absurd; Scaremongering;
Parallel scandals; No evidence; Open borders
Show of union
militancy
Pensions dispute points to lack of politics, says
Alan Stevens
Labour versus Blairism
The events of the last couple of weeks have seen Blair
go into crisis, writes Graham Bash of Labour
Left Briefing. The question is, to what extent
is it terminal?
Reform coalition,
or mass strike?
In the third article in this series, Mike Macnair
examines the basis of two contending strategies for
working class advance
Fighting on two fronts
Mehdi Kia of Iran Bulletin - Middle East
Forum addressed the March 26 London Communist
Forum on the question, ‘Will Iran be next? Should
we align ourselves with the ayatollahs?’ This
is an edited version of his speech
Consistant democracy
Mary Godwin reports on the debate at the London
Communist Forum where comrade Mehdi Kia spoke
Lies,
smears and distortions
The Stalinoid left has been at it again. In order
to excuse homophobia amongst the muslim establishment,
some are suggesting that the March 25 ‘Freedom
of Expression’ rally was linked to the far-right
BNP, so as to smear Peter Tatchell and the gay rights
group, Outrage. In fact the event was organised by
bourgeois liberals - and the BNP boycotted it. Brett
Lock of Outrage looks at the role of Ken Livingstone’s
well-paid apologists, Socialist Action
‘Talib Johnny’
drops in … and out
of Respect
Peter Manson looks at Birmingham city councillor
for Sparkbrook, Talib Hussain, who resigned from Respect
only a week after joining
Fight for unity, fight for
principle
Ben Lewis (a member of the CPGB and the German
left party, WASG) reports on last week’s regional
elections in three German federal states and the local
elections in the state of Hesse, which give a useful
snapshot of the soon-to-be-united left
Sun, sodomy and the lash
Amelia Dalton reviews Nick Cave (writer), John Hillcoat
(director) The proposition various venues
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