Letters
Nuclear option; Utterly foul; Bananarama; Nostalgic;
Marxist art; Sophistry; Outstanding man; Cargo cults;
Bedside manner; Spot on; Extremists; No beer halls?;
Shit-stirrers; Up yours; Jesus Christ
Battle for the soul of SACP
Whether or not newly elected ANC president Jacob Zuma
is a criminal, just what is the South African Communist
Party playing at in supporting him? Peter Manson
reports from South Africa
Should
the left manage capitalism?
In the regional elections in the German federal state
of Hesse on January 28, the newly formed party, Die
Linke, could again play kingmaker. Uli Franke,
a candidate for Die Linke in the Hessian city of Darmstadt,
spoke to Tina Becker about the pressure to govern,
the new tendencies emerging in the organisation and
the need for more debate
Firm in principle, flexible
in tactics
Benjamin Klein argues that the working class movement
must lead the struggle for democracy and free speech,
and not leave it to the posturing of the Tories and
the Liberals
Anti-migrant repression and
the John Garcia case
James Turley comments on asbos and the logic of
immigration controls
Back to the future
How do Stalinist and Trotskyist traditions influence
our views about a national alternative to the Labour
Party? Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic
Group returns to the debate with the CPGB’s Mike
Macnair
