Letters
Mistake; Insulting; Green man; No compromise; Boom
and bust; Sinking; Fluff; Brutal images; With interest;
'Freedom' fight; Ignorance; Opening time; Dictum
Merger opportunity
Ben Lewis, a member of the CPGB and
the German left party WASG, reports on the result
of the Urabstimmung (membership ballot) within
the WASG, which highlights widespread discontent over
the leadership's bureaucratic manoeuvres in pursuing
the merger with the Linkspartei.PDS ballot
Greenism and neo-Malthusian
pseudo-science
In the first of three articles Jack Conrad argues
that the global ecological crisis cannot be explained
by crude overpopulation theories. Each social formation
has its own laws, including laws of population
Intransigently
brave
Mark Fischer remembers Paul Whetton, a former
member of the CPGB and an outstanding rank and file
miners’ leader during the Great Strike of 1984-85,
who died on March 3
Ticked off and many headed
Eddie Ford reviews The insurgency, BBC2
April 2 Sunday 9-10pm
Powerful symbol
Liam O Ruairc reviews Denis O Hearn's book Bobby
Sands: Nothing but an unfinished song, Pluto Press,
2006, £12.99, pp448
Rights
and wrongs
Sofie Buckland of the Alliance for Workers Liberty,
newly elected to the leadership of the National Union
of Students on the Education Not for Sale ticket,
takes issue with David Isaacson and the anti-economist
emphasis of the CPGB
What kind of new workers’
party?
The question of a new party is appearing on the agenda
of the workers’ movement over and over again.
But few are fighting for one based on a Marxist programme
- including most of the Marxists, paradoxically. Nick
Rogers gives an overview of this crucial debate
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