Letters
No defeat; Sleight of hand; Disgrace; Islamist slander;
Uncomradely; Dictatorial; Losing it; All drunk; Splinter;
Never-never land; Clannish
Booze, fags and turkey twizzlers
On October 1, it became illegal for under-18s to buy
tobacco. James Turley comments
Spin on this, Brown
Gordon Brown should not have the right to dedice when
the electorate get to vote. Jim Moody calls for
annual parliaments
Boycotts and working class
principle
Mike Macnair outlines the tactics communists ought
to adopt in relation to Israel
Orwellian
experience
Today British politicians shed crocodile tears over
the repression of the Burmese regime, but the terror
of Than Shwe cannot equal the brutality and arrogance
endured by the Burmese people under British colonial
rule from 1886 to 1948. Emily Branson comments
Factional property
Issue number three of Marxist Voice, the journal
of the Campaign for a Marxist Party, is a great disappointment,
says Phil Kent
Motions
and nominations
At the Stop the War Coalition annual general meeting
on October 27, the CPGB urges support for the motions
drawn up by Communist Students and Hands off the People
of Iran and calls for the election of Ben Lewis
and Yassamine Mather to the STWC steering
committee
Tory revival will squeeze left
Carey Davies comments
Socialism
from below in Respect
Longstanding SWP member Nick Bird has resigned from
the organisation in protest at its lack of internal
democracy and change of policy on Respect. He spoke
to Peter Manson
