Letters
Threat condoned; Verbal abuse; Naive; Anti-Leninism; Dictatorship; Iranian client; No comment; Death sex; Enlighten us; Ironic; Honour killing; Keynesianism; Correction
From cadets to militias
Gordon Brown agrees with the call for military training in schools. Jim Moody puts the communist view
NUS:
Right prepares for fresh assault
Although the right’s governance review was not passed at this year’s National Union of Students conference, the fragmented left suffered a series of defeats. Chris Strafford and Ben Klein report
Greg Tucker 1953-2008
Mark Fischer expresses the left's loss
What sort of party do we need?
In the aftermath of the ruinous schism in the Respect popular front, the humiliating failure of the left nationalist Scottish Socialist Party and the abortive Campaign for a New Workers’ Party, Jack Conrad restates the case for a Marxist party
Debating crime and punishment
On April 6 the CPGB’s London Communist Forum discussed section 3.15 of our Draft programme: ‘Crime and prison’.1 Mike Macnair reports on his opening and proposes some revisions to the section
Fine tuning essential demands
Peter Manson and Phil Kent report on three recent discussions of the CPGB Draft programme
Behind the lies of Petraeus
What is the truth about Muqtada al-Sadr’s connections with Iran? Yassamine Mather looks at al-Sadr’s pragmatic opportunism and puts the record straight
Bertie digs out
The decision by Irish taoiseach Bertie Ahern to resign has come as a massive relief to his party, writes Anne Mc Shane
Chauvinism and hypocrisy
The Olympic torch relay protests give the lie to the formal separation of sport and politics, argues James Turley
