Letters
Paradoxes?; Let's pretend; Japan lesson; Stale attitude;
'Sectarian' Dig; Sinking ships; Wait and hope; Sex
change; Back in the USSR; House of cards
Military coups and soldiers’
rights
We are revolutionaries, not constitutional democrats,
says Jim Moody - and takes the Alliance for
Workers' Liberty to task
Iraq exit strategy
Iraq shows the limits of US power and underlines the
fact that it is in relative decline, says Jack
Conrad
The limits of green politics
Green politics have caught on in a big way. Jack
Conrad explores their contours, limitations and
contradictions
Keeping Marxist powder dry
Owen Jones of the campaign to elect John McDonnell
to succeed Tony Blair spoke to the Weekly Worker
Russia
1917 and the global revolution
What were the conditions that made Russia ripe for
revolution? What were the factors that led to its
failure? Boris Kagarlitsky, one of Russia’s
leading Marxists, argues for a dialectical approach
in analysing the Soviet Union and resuming the tasks
of October
Lessons of October
Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group
looks at how the Bolsheviks combined illegality and
legality
Class resistance and conspiracy
David Douglass reviews Margaret Hutcherson's Let
no wheels turn: the wrecking of the Flying Scotsman,
1926 TUPS Books, 2006, pp91, £6.95
