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Letters
Not nationalist; NUJ support; Not political; Illegal;
Preoccupation; Good PR; Boring; Silly mid-off; Colonial;
Closed borders; Innocent thoughts; Christian names;
SPGB coup; Wage labour; Against a Marxist Party
Copyright or human need
Communists are for the freedom of information, says
Mike Macnair
Kautsky,
Lenin and Trotsky
What were the differences, strengths and similarities?
Jack Conrad investigates
Multiculturalism: facing both
ways
Tony Blair’s December 8 speech on multiculturalism
shows that his government has no coherent programme
to deal with the fact that the majority of British
muslims oppose his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and
are in general deeply alienated. Jim Moody
looks at the issues
No
more historical abortions
Hillel Ticktin highlights the bogus nature of
planning in the Soviet Union and locates the central
importance of Europe for the transition to socialism
CS conference debates way
forward
At the founding conference of Communist Students in
Sheffield on Saturday December 9, some 20 comrades,
most of them not members of the CPGB, were present.
Ted North reports
Fantastic reality - Marxism
and the politics of religion
Religion is back with a vengeance. George Bush and
the US christian right, holy Tony Blair and Britain’s
islamophobia, Russia’s reinstalled orthodox church
and India’s saffron communalism, the toxic evangelicalism
sweeping Africa and Latin America, Saudi Arabia’s
puritanical wahhabism and al Qa’eda’s terrorism of
spectacle, the Iranian theocracy and everywhere, it
seems, the escape into the trench warfare of religious
identity. But what is religion? In this extract from
the introduction to his new book, Jack Conrad
shows that the answer is not as straightforward as
it might first appear
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