Letters
CMP caricature; Build trust; Anti-semitism; Ignorant
drivel; Copy editor!; Baseball batty; Taxing business;
What abolition?; Reid response; Good billionaire
Solidarity with Iran needs
a fight on two fronts
Last week, tens of thousands of Iranian teachers went
on strike, demanding an increase in their miserable
wages and the resignation of the education minister.
In Tehran over a thousand were arrested. Tina Becker
also reports on the efforts of the Hands Off the People
of Iran campaign to get more organisations involved
Step
up pressure on union lefts to get John McDonnell on
the ballot
If John McDonnell’s name were to appear on
the ballot paper to decide the Labour Party’s new
leader, that would bring with it the possibility of
revitalising the entire left. However, thanks in large
part to the cowardice of the left union bureaucrats,
not enough Labour MPs have come under pressure to
nominate him, says Jim Moody
Debate SWP won’t have
The March 20 ‘people’s assembly’, billed by the Stop
the War Coalition as “the debate parliament won’t
have”, was, of course, nothing of the sort. Phil
Kent reports
New
star recruit Tafazzal Hussain: businessman
Peter Manson on the former Lib Dem council
candidate Tafazzal Hussain, who has just joined Respect
Tory resurgence and the left
Eddie Ford on the re-branding of the 'nasty party'
Cross-class alliances endanger
the struggle against Mugabe
The past week has seen a stepping up of imperialist
propaganda against the regime of Robert Mugabe in
Zimbabwe, especially in the US and UK. But what is
the situation on the ground? Peter Manson spoke to
Mike Sambo, national coordinator of the International
Socialist Organisation Zimbabwe
Sparks,
flashes and damp squibs
Andrew Coates reviews Nick Cohen's What’s
left? How liberals lost their way (Fourth Estate,
2007, pp400, £12.99)
Stages, not stageism
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
defends of his theory of ‘permanent democratic
revolution’
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