Letters
'Vote Blair'; Hindsight; Sacred texts; Workers' control;
Taking the PCS; Drum-beaters; Destroy; Property forms;
Reprehensible; Brave battle; Rotten response; Libertarian
Army defends secularism
Esen Uslu reports from Turkey on the threat of yet
another military intervention
No backsliding
The April 29 London meeting of the Campaign for a
Marxist Party discussed at length the need for the
CMP to stand firm on its founding principle - that
communists need to campaign for a Marxist party in
the here and now, not at some time in the indefinite
future. Mary Godwin reports
- No more freaks and
halfway houses
The Campaign for a Marxist Party was from the outset
based on the rejection of the notion of yet another
confessional sect operating through a halfway-house
front, argues Mike Macnair. The CMP should
firmly rebuff any attempt to reverse this
- Fence-sitter
Barry Biddulph, of Sheffield CMP, adds his thoughts
on halfway houses

Out of the closet?
Lawrence Parker reviews Florian Henckel's The
lives of others (Das Leben der Anderen)
Speeches and class war
Alan Stevens reports from this year's May Day
march in London
Fighting talk
Phil Kent reports on the 'Organising for Fighting
Unions' rally on May 1
Defiance grows
Immediately after the London May Day demonstration,
Hands Off the People of Iran held a public meeting
near Trafalgar Square. Hopi activist Torab Saleth
introduced the discussion
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