Letters
Tool of Teheran; No apology; True equality; Rotten
bloc; Unity call; Climate change; Rotten answers
Summer Offensive
2006
Pushing ahead
I am away from our office this week, so I am afraid
that I cannot provide readers with precise figures
for this week’s running total for the Summer Offensive,
our annual two-month fundraising drive. However, the
last seven days have seen something like £1,100 added,
taking us to somewhere in the region of £5,400.
Not fit for purpose
In the panic over sex crimes, communists emphasise
the need for treatment, not revenge. Eddie Ford
comments
Diminished horizons, modern-day
echoes
Lawrence Parker reviews John Callaghan: Cold
War, crisis and conflict: the CPGB 1951-68 (Lawrence
and Wishart, 2003, pp256, £15.99)
Unholy alliance
What is the link between Zionism and anti-semitism?
Tony Greenstein explains that there is a closer
connection than many modern Zionists would care to admit
Battle
lines drawn
Tommy Sheridan has launched a Bonapartist power-grab.
This weekend’s national council looks set to
ratchet up tensions even further, writes Peter Manson
- Bonapartist demagogy
in barbed financial appeal
Tommy Sheridan’s no-holds-barred letter
to Scottish Socialist Party members and below the
official diplomatic response distributed by national
secretary Allan Green
- Unity and the SSP
Is working class unity helped by a separate Scottish
Socialist Party and the strategy for an ‘independent
socialist Scotland’? The following exchange
took place recently on the Socialist Alliance internet
discussion list between Bob Goupillot - a
member of the Republican Communist Network (Scotland),
one of the SSP’s smaller platforms - and Jack
Conrad. Things kicked off when comrade Goupillot
defended the SSP after a posting by Jim Gilbert
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