Letters
No shock; Muso hubris; Art vanguard; We agree?;
Squeaky-clean; Health problems; Unbelievable!; End
of religion; Facile abuse; Sexless soviets
Good
work
Howard Roak reports on the latest developments
in our two-month fundraising campaign
Compensation, not insurance
Eddie Ford comments on the floods: Communists
argue that in the event of a disaster or major accident
any redress made should be based on a system of need,
not individualised insurance schemes. And logically
this requires that a universal compensation
system be set up
Regional pay onslaught
Dave Vincent, secretary of the Greater Manchester
DCA branch of the Public and Commercial Services Union
(personal capacity), reports on the latest divisive
attacks on PCS members and calls for a united fightback
Respect
- the party for everybody
Businessman Harun Miah is Respect’s candidate
in the August 9 council by-election in Shadwell, Tower
Hamlets. He defeated the SWP’s nominee in Respect’s
selection meeting and is being opposed by former Labour
leader of the council Michael Keith. The by-election
was sparked when sitting Respect councillor Shamim Chowdhury
resigned, at first citing “changed personal circumstances”,
but then launching a bitter attack on his former colleagues.
Harun Miah spoke to Peter Manson
Trust and workable democracy
Steve Freeman defends his proposal to limit CPGB
participation in the Campaign for a Marxist Party
and denies it is anarcho-bureaucratic
All
power to Chávez?
Nick Rogers analyses the sharpening contradictions
within the process known as the ‘Bolivarian revolution’
Debt crisis looms
Last week a minor tremor shook the world of investments.
Shares on the world’s stock exchanges started to wobble
and many fell markedly, causing some alarm in the
financial sector. Jim Moody comments
‘Transitional’
to what?
Setting the scene for a series of articles on ‘permanent
revolution’, Mike Macnair argues that
the dictatorship of the proletariat must take the
specific form of the democratic republic
Growing
support
Hands Off the People of Iran’s already impressive
list of supporters has continued to grow during the
last week. Steve Cooke reports
Quixotic windmills
Is the detailed notation of musical composition more
democratic than free improvisation? Composer Wieland
Hoban responds to Gordon Downie’s article,
‘Art and commodification’
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