Letters
Internet slander; Revo reverse; PR text; Lifeless;
Programme; Socialist law; Waste of time; Political
vacuum; Resurgence?; Good article; Myopic; Too cynical;
No neo-con; No gung-ho; Obligation
Gift for militarist faction
Last week, when the militarist faction in the Iranian regime realised
they had captured 15 British marines and sailors,
it must have seemed like a gift from heaven. Yassamine
Mather reports
McDonnell
and lesser evilism
None of the large, Labour-affiliated unions have come
on board the campaign to elect John McDonnell leader
of the Labour Party, and even some of his Socialist
Campaign Group comrades are not backing him. Jim
Moody looks at the reasons for their reticence
Change does not come
through invasions
Contrary to what some in the John for Leader camp
have suggested, John McDonnell himself has unambiguously
expressed not only his ongoing solidarity with Iranian
workers, students, women and democrats, but his continued
support for the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign.
Steve Cooke reports
Always imperialist
The third London meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist
Party, on Sunday March 25, discussed the disastrous
consequences that flow from a flawed reading of Lenin’s
flawed theory. Mary Godwin reports
Clinging to Trotskyist pieties
There is no movement in Britain to set up a new ‘mass
workers’ party’, argues Mike Macnair.
What can be achieved, however, is a united party of
the Marxists
Nationalist blind spot
Sections of the left in Australia and New Zealand
are happy to rail against what the US army is doing
on the other side of the world, writes Scott Hamilton.
But they fall into line when ‘our troops’
are involved in operations in our own backyard
Legitimising anti-semitism
As the Israel lobby comes under unprecedented attack
in the US and George Soros is described as “a cog
in the Hitlerite wheel”, Gilad Atzmon and his friends
continue to peddle conspiracy theories, writes Tony
Greenstein
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