Letters
Sin bin; Idiots and oafs; Time to go; State of play;
Hard as steel; Not usual; Robots are us; So what?
Leading workers by the nose
Our immediate task is to pose a political alternative
to the existing regime, writes Mike Macnair,
not wait for the transitional method to
produce soviets. This article concludes his series
on permanent revolution
Passing
exams and changing the rules
All students should read Bertell Ollmans How
to take an exam and remake the world (Black Rose
Books), says Benjamin Edgar Klein
More of the same
Around 100 students gathered at London’s School of
Oriental and African Studies on Saturday September
8 for what was billed as a student Stop the War “conference”.
Nick Jones reports
Idols and demons
In the saga surrounding Madeleine McCann, the British media is trying
to convince us that the nuclear family is the one
remaining haven in a cold world and that the Portuguese
police, not being British, must be somehow uniquely
incompetent or corrupt. Eddie Ford comments
The prison officers dilemma
Cameron Richards takes issue with Jim Moodys
article The turn of the screws (September
6) and the position of the CPGB leadership
Smearing
solidarity
The issue of Iran solidarity has provoked controversy
recently in the debates on Indymedia Ireland (www.indymedia.ie).
Anne Mc Shane reports
Triggers and real causes
The reluctancy of the big five banks in the United
Kingdom to lend money to each other shows how
fragile the whole system of global finance capital
really is, says Jim Moody
George
Galloway demands the scalp of
John Rees - so do we
Following the failure of the SWP to reach an accommodation
with George Galloway, is John Rees now preparing for
a final showdown at Respects annual conference
in November? Peter Manson reports on the latest
developments
- Click here to
read George Galloway's document It was the best
of times, it was the worst of times
- Click here
to read the SWP's internal document on the crisis