Letters
No harm; Religious freedom; Social realism; Arse talk;
Corrections; Cretins; Middle way; Iraqi women's rights;
Up for Cruddas; Blame leaders; Erfurt; Delusion
Crime and yet more punishment
Prison doesn’t work, says Eddie Ford
What sort of programme?
Members of the Campaign for a Marxist Party in the
Midlands area met last Saturday (January 22) in Birmingham.
Dave Spencer reports
Father knew Lloyd George
With another senior Labour figure arrested over cash
for honours and a cover-up alleged, the criminal investigation
is drawing Blair into its net. But what lessons can
we draw about democracy, accountability and the system
of capital itself? Jim Moody examines the issues
Collusion - policy of the
British state
The official report into collusion between loyalist
death squads and the British state only confirms what
was common knowledge, writes Liam O Ruairc of
the Irish Republican Socialist Party. He also notes
(below) that the report has been used by Sinn Féin
leader Gerry Adams to justify cooperation with the
Northern Ireland police
For workers’ unity,
for open borders
On January 26 the government announced yet another
batch of anti-migrant measures in its UK Borders Bill,
which will have its second reading on February 5.
Peter Manson reports
Revisiting Warwick
Labour is turning to the unions once again to ease
its financial problems. But will the union bureaucrats
write more blank cheques? Alan Stevens calls
for a political fightback
The sigh of the oppressed
Gerry Downing looks at the origins of monotheism
and assesses the attitude of communists towards believers
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