Letters
Only one tactic; Revo and WP; Quite impressive;
Youth 'reform'; Resources; The right thing; PCSU split
vote; Consumer arousal; Blood-sucking; Old versus
new; Democracy; Labour's ghost; Luke Lansbury; Hero;
Wishful thinking; Correction
Reid whips up xenophobia
In response to home secretary's John Reid xenophobic
incitement directed at those from outside Britain,
Jim Moody argues for open borders
Uphill battle for McDonnell
With in all likelihood only a couple of months to go
before Tony Blair steps down as Labour leader, the campaign
to elect John McDonnell as his replacement is still
unable to gather enough steam to ensure that, at the
very least, his name appears on the ballot paper.
Peter Manson reports
Being called a ‘black
bastard’ should not be normal
In a certain sense, the recent comments by the now
disgraced Tory MP, Patrick Mercer, can be welcomed,
says Eddie Ford
CMP steps up a gear
Peter Manson reports on the first national members'
meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party
Abolition and working class
solidarity
Official society celebrates the bicentenary of the ending
of slavery as part of ‘our common British heritage’.
Mike Macnair examines the class forces that underpinned
anti-slavery
Braving death threats
On February 26, the notorious Jihadist Ansar al-Islam
group, based in Kurdistan/Iraq, sent a death threat
to Iraqi socialist and women’s rights activist Houzan
Mahmoud
Province of permanent instability
‘normalises’
Liam O Ruairc of the Irish Republican Socialist
Party looks at the situation in Northern Ireland after
the elections and the possibilities of power sharing
Opportunism
in Irish conditions
Socialist Workers Party (Ireland) held its Marxism
2007 event in Dublin over the weekend of March 10-11.
The event reflects, as it does in Britain, the current
political and organisational state of the SWP. Anne
Mc Shane reports
Solidarity and SWP’s
favourite anti-semite
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign wants to have it both
ways over saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and the Deir Yassin
Remembered group. Tony Greenstein (a founder
member of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and a
member of Jews Against Zionism) reports on the annual
general meeting
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