Letters
9/11 'truth'; Inside job; Part of problem; Weekly
luxury; Imperialism; Take sides; Iraqi solidarity;
Socialist market; Distorted; Sectarian SPEW; Philanthropy;
Old style; Red letter day; Modern opiate; Cretinous;
String us along
Double standards in London
and Tehran
In the furore over the capture of British sailors
and marines and their theatrical release by Iran’s
islamic regime, a number of essential points seem
to have been forgotten by the British media, and even
by so-called anti-war broadsheets, says Yassamine
Mather
Hostage crisis and
reactionary schemes
Without doubt, Iran’s capture of the 15 UK sailors
and marines - and then their eventual high-profile
release - was a humiliation for British imperialism.
And the subsequent row about whether some of the service
members, especially Faye Turnway, should have sold
their story to the mass media for large amounts of
money has further soiled the entire incident for many
in the UK establishment. Eddie Ford comments
SWP backs the mullahs
- official
The Socialist Workers Party-backed Campaign Against
Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (Casmii)
effectively operates as an apologist for the regime
sitting in Tehran, says Eddie Ford
Wales launch
Bob Davies reports on the launch of the Hands
Off the People of Iran campaign in Cardiff
Sheridan
to back SNP
Both the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity are
in self-destruct mode, says Peter Manson
More bad climate news
Jim Moody on the irrationality of carbon offsetting
and carbon credits
Putting out the trash
Economic and political interpenetration both internationally
and nationally makes a mockery of the Revolutionary
Democratic Group’s ‘democratic permanent revolution’.
Mike Macnair concludes his response to Dave Craig of
the RDG
Giving internationalism
new meaning
The Liverpool dockers’ March for Social Justice
took place 10 years ago, on April 12 1997. Chris
Knight of the London Dockers Support Group, who
acted as the main link with the Reclaim the Streets
movement, looks back at the dockers’ historic
fight
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