Letters
New sparks; No soothsayer; Rejoinder; Bollocks; Fundamental
error; Sneaky; Back next time; Wounding insults; Big
bro pro; Class role; Pregnant pause; Nothing left
Genuine
solidarity
Anne Mc Shane reports on the successful launch
of Hands Off the People of Iran in Ireland
New Hopi supporters
include Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, comedian Bill Bailey
and FBU president Mick Shaw
Labour left in crisis
Jack Conrad and Jim Moody comment on John
McDonnell's failure to get onto the ballot paper for
the Labour leadership election
Less than charitable
The Independent ran an intriguing story on May
12 centred on the expulsion of Mike Squires from membership
of the Marx Memorial Library. Unfortunately, the paper
dropped a clanger by stating that the Communist Party
of Great Britain was at the centre of an attempted
‘takeover’ of the library. Lawrence Parker
reports
Going
nowhere fast
The Socialist Party’s on-off Campaign for a New
Workers’ Party has next to nothing to show for
its first year of existence, writes Mary Godwin
Mainstream ‘solutions’
The Campaign Against Climate Change held what seems
to have become a regular event, its annual International
Climate Conference, over the weekend of May 12-13,
with over 350 people - mainly white, but a mixture
of young and old - attending its plenaries and individual
sessions. Tony Stevens reports
Who
gets what and why
Chris Gray (New Interventions) reviews
Tim Harford's The undercover economist Little,
Brown 2006, pp288, £17.99
Serious debate on key questions
The CPGB Wales annual day school, held in Cardiff
on May 12, attracted small numbers, but produced serious
and worthwhile debate. Bob Davies reports
Two-way
traffic and continued divisions
As the SWP desperately tries to keep a semblance of
control over its Respect offspring in Tower Hamlets,
the local branch has seen one of its councillors cross
the floor to Labour, while a high-profile Labour leftwinger
moves in the opposite direction. Peter Manson
reports
Prepare for marathon
Phil Sharpe of the Democratic Socialist Alliance defends
his advocacy of a halfway house workers’ party
as a means of promoting the Marxist programme
