Letters
Unitary state; Under duress; Loss of faith; Irish
reasons; War reasons; Critical matter; Marxist party;
I dare you; Eying the fire; Workers Power; Big impact;
Left to fester; Under siege; In with a bullet
Summer Offensive
2006
Initiative lacking
Howard Roak reports on the latest development
in the party's fundraising drive
Don’t desert them
‘No to war, no to repression’ is an open
letter by Iranian student leaders in opposition to
both imperialist aggression and the oppression of
the islamic regime. Two were recently arrested. Mehdi
Kia of Iran Bulletin/Middle East Forum introduces
it with a discussion of its background and the solidarity
tasks of the left
Astute timing but weak politics
The John McDonnell challenge affords the Labour left
a chance of a comeback, Mark Fischer reckons.
But what should be the role of Marxists in the party?
- Confident campaign
John McDonnell was bullish about both the Labour
Representation Committee conference and the prospects
for his leadership campaign when he spoke to Mark
Fischer
- 21st century socialism
Owen Jones is the coordinator of the recently
launched LRC youth group, the Young Socialists,
and is on the John McDonnell campaign team. Mark
Fischer collared him for an argument
Nationalist
myths are not Marxism
Jack Conrad argues against the Scottish Socialist
Party’s claim that Scotland is an oppressed nation,
an English colony. Prior to the 1707 Act of Union Scotland
was not a nation
Sect with class roots (Ted
Grant 1913-2006)
Ted Grant died on July 20 at the age of 93,
after more than 75 years as a Trotskyist activist.
He was the effective founder and theoretical guru
of the Militant Tendency, which at its height, recalls
Mike Macnair, before the splits of the 1990s,
was probably the largest and best-rooted of the Trotskyist
organisations in Britain
Wrong
slogans
Peter Manson and Dave Isaacson report on the July 22 demonstrations
against Israel's onslaught on Lebanon
Identity and class
After watching the repeat of the BBC series, Lefties,
Gordon Downie discusses how the capitalist media
misrepresents radical movements of the left
