Letters
Confusion; Puritanical; Earth spirit; Bottom line;
Searchlight bias; CMP nonsense; Bloody amoralism;
Autonomy; Menshevik trash; Illuminating; Egregious
act; Sick society?; Canadian left
Socialism or catastrophe
There is no solution to global warming under capitalism,
says Jim Moody in response to the UN report
on the issue
Respect:
our new moral guardians
Anne Mc Shane reviews Ariel Levy's Female chauvinist
pigs: women and the rise of raunch culture (Pocket
Books, 2005, pp240, £7.99)
It’s not what you know
but who you know
On January 23 Yasir Idris was selected at a meeting
of South West Birmingham Respect to contest the Moseley
and Kings Heath ward in the May council elections. He
beat the Socialist Workers Party’s Helen Salmon
by 35 votes to 20. Peter Manson spoke to him
Kosova needs genuine self-determination
Eddie Ford analyses the recent elections in Serbia
and the plans for "limited independence"
for Kosova
Mountains out of molehills
Leading the Alliance for Workers Liberty’s typically
slippery response to our coverage of the Socialist
Youth Network launch conference reveals an organisation
in crisis and rapidly moving to the right, says James
Turley
Nationalism versus Marxism
The Campaign for a Marxist Party held its first Glasgow
public meeting on Saturday February 3. It took the
form of a debate entitled ‘The way forward for
the left’, featuring Hillel Ticktin for the CMP;
Jack Ferguson of the Scottish Socialist Party’s
executive committee; Gordon Morgan, national treasurer
of Solidarity; and Yassamine Mather of the Hands Off
the People of Iran campaign. Peter Kennedy
reports
Defend Iran’s workers,
not its rotten regime
Over the last two weeks, although Iran is facing a
major military attack, protests and demonstrations
against harsh economic conditions have escalated within
the country. Yassamine Mather reports
Farewell
to veteran communist activist
Gill Emerson and David Turner are amongst the friends
and comrades who are mourning the veteran communist
Reg Weston, who died on January 26 2007, aged
93, following a short illness
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