Letters
Dogmatic; Splitters; Square wheel; First condition;
Myopic reverence;
Chauvinist CPGB; Disgusting; No way, comrade; Silencers;
Prostitution;
By the by; Multicultural; Happy-clappy; Rude elements;
Fake outrage
PCSU - fight to win
On May Day the Public and Commercial Services Union
is calling out its 280,000 civil service members on
a 24-hour strike. Lee Rock, national secretary
of the PCSU Socialist Caucus, explains the issues
Post workers under attack
At the end of last week, Royal Mail announced that
it would accelerate the privatisation of crown post
offices by transferring 85 of them to the tender mercies
of WH Smith. Initially, 70 are to due to go
this year. Jim Moody reports
Propaganda and ideology
The most remarkable thing about the sword and sandals
epic 300 is that there have been no pickets
organised outside the local Odeon and no fatwahs issued
against director Zack Snyder and executive producer
Frank Miller, says Jeremy Butler
Ghosts of 2002, poverty of
2007
The deeply divided French left has only itself to
blame for its abysmal results in the presidential
election. Peter Manson looks at the continuing
decline of the Parti Communiste Français and
the bankruptcy of the far left
‘Don’t criticise
Iranian regime’
At the April 19 activists’ meeting of Campaign
Iran, our call for principled internationalism was
met with SWP-backed nationalist accusations of displaying
an “imperial and colonial” viewpoint, which
was “catastrophic for the people of Iran”.
Tina Becker reports
Controversy and comradeship
Comrades from diverse political backgrounds gathered
at the University of Sheffield over the weekend of April
21-22 to discuss revolutionary theory, strategy and
practice at the CPGB-organised Communist University
North. James Turley and Jamie Linney report
Spiralling
deeper into nationalism
By returning the Scottish National Party as the largest
party on May 3, the third election to Scotland’s devolved
parliament has the potential to open up a profound
debate about the constitutional settlement that has
long served one of the world’s oldest bourgeoisies.
Nick Rogers reports
Election lottery
On Thursday May 3, voters in Wales go to the polls in
what is dubbed by many the ‘Welsh general election’.
However, if interest in the event is to match that rather
grand title, there would have to be a significant increase
in the 38% turnout recorded for the last assembly elections
in 2003. Bob Davies reports
Propaganda for a lost generation
Phil Sharpe replies to Mike Macnair on the question
of the Marxist party’s programme
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