Letters
Defending Loach; Tactical error; Obsession; Two years;
Defining terms; Halfway Marxist; Popular beat; Mod
cons; Consensus; Irrelevant; Pieces of 28; Anarchist
mine; 36 billionaires
Who
killed off the movement?
Torab Saleth of Workers Left Unity Iran points
the finger at the SWP for its pro-Tehran apologetics
Problems and potentialities
The Communist Party’s annual fundraising
drive begins on June 23. Howard Roak looks
at the possibilities
Support
Die Linke - but organise to fight
As of June 16 the two dominant forces on the
German left, the Linkspartei.PDS and the WASG, formally
ceased to exist and joined forces to create the new
left party, Die Linke. Ben Lewis reports from
Germany
Left pragmatism led to Blair
and Brown
As far as most people are concerned, the question
raised by the Labour Party’s deputy leadership election
was not ‘Who will win?’ but rather ‘Who cares
who wins?’ Mary Godwin comments
Back on the agenda
The process of imposing a European Union constitution
has resumed, writes Jim Moody
From
mighty messiahs to mere mortals
Superheroes like Batman and Spiderman mean
lucrative movies and reviews in The Times and The
Guardian. Yet the very first superhero, Superman,
was invented by two working class teenagers during
the depression. Mike Belbin looks at the development
of the genre and what it may tell us about its makers
and audiences
All-American hero
AJ Byrne reviews Andy Stern's Getting America
back on track: a country that works
How to build Marxist unity
CPGB makes no concrete suggestions for actually
building a Marxist party, argues Phil Sharpe
of the Democratic Socialist Alliance
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