Letters
Puppets; Decomposition; Favoured refuge; Resolutionitis;
Bin it; Defend Eddie; China dogma; Correction
No
to imperialist threats
Yassamine Mather reports on the latest developments
in Iran and calls for international solidarity
- Truth versus slurs
On November 21 Hands Off the People of Iran held
a successful launch meeting in Manchester despite
sectarian attempts to undermine it from the Socialist
Workers Party. Ken Browning reports
- Sheffield solidarity
Labor left must develop
platform for change
Another member of Bush’s ‘coalition of the
willing’ has been unceremoniously dumped. Last weekend’s
Australian election marks an important turning point,
writes Marcus Ström
Grander in scope, poorer
in content
Were Marx and Engels really at one over the dialectic
of nature? US communist Jim Creegan replies
to Jack Conrad
Oxford Union and ‘free
speech’
The decision by the Oxford Union debating
society to give a platform to BNP leader Nick Griffin
and holocaust denier David Irving provoked national
controversy. James Turley digs through it all
and argues for a particular application of the ‘no
platform’ tactic
Programme debate continues
CPGB comrades in London are continuing our discussions
on the redrafting of our Draft programme and
we are now coming towards the end of section three
of the current version, ‘Immediate demands’. Peter
Manson reports
Respect
booty prize
Madani Girls School in Tower Hamlets, east London,
was the venue for the Respect (Galloway version) November
25 hustings to determine the prospective general election
candidates for the two constituencies of Bethnal Green
and Bow, and Poplar and Limehouse. Simon Wells
reports
Fresh start for Campaign for
a Marxist Party
In a rebuff to sectarians and halfway house
supporters, the recall conference of the Campaign
for a Marxist Party put it on a much sounder basis
last Saturday. The tiny, unrepresentative Democratic
Socialist Alliance faction that had dominated the
committee for over a year, doing little or nothing,
was replaced. Jim Moody reports
