Letters
Fertile ground; All drunk; CPGB censor; Blog off;
Defeat boycott; Patronising; Vote Labour?; Fight controls;
Zimbabwe mood
No
imperialist intervention
George Bush and Gordon Brown have been shedding crocodile
tears over Burma. But should we demand that they intervene
to sort things out? Jim Moody argues that the
masses themselves are the solution
Tell it like it is
The CPGB has been much criticised over its willingness
to use the enemy’s media and its insistence on
defending free speech. Jack Conrad explains
why communists should stand against censorship and
strive to expose opportunism
Labour left at sea
Confusion rules after the Labour conference in Bournemouth,
writes Dave Isaacson
Ungreen American
Environmentalists around the world were less than
impressed by president George Bush’s speech at the
major economies’ meeting on energy, security and climate
change last week. Simon Wells comments
Vying
for support
Communist Students, the militant student group sponsored
by the CPGB, is now one year old. Benjamin Klein
reports on its growing strength
Rights and wrongs
A boycott of Israeli academe should target institutions,
not individuals, argues Moshé Machover
- UCU debate closed
down
Moshé Machover’s article was written in 2005, before the Association of University
Teachers and the National Association of Teachers
in Further and Higher Education merged, in June
2006, to form the University and College Union.
Looking
for pastures new
As the SWP leadership poses left in order to prepare
the membership for a future without Respect, Peter
Manson calls upon the rank and file to rebel from
the left
- I’ve
had enough
Nick Bird reports on the SWP party council
and announces his resignation from the organisation
Straw men and solitary revolution
The ‘high modernism v improvisation’ debate
represents a false dichotomy, writes Wieland Hoban
