Weekly Worker 774 Thursday June 18 2009
Death to the Islamic republic
The dramatic events in Tehran and other major cities following the June 12 presidential election in Iran are clear manifestations of the anger and frustration of the majority of Iranians with political Islam, writes Yassamine Mather
The election campaign of the four presidential candidates was largely ignored by the majority of the population until early June, when a series of televised debates triggered street demonstrations and public meetings. Ironically it was Mahmood Ahmadinejad’s fear of losing that prompted him to make allegations of endemic corruption against some of the leading figures of the religious state ... more
Letters
Infantile yarn; Above class; Lost the plot; Rejoinder; Still here; Liberal lessons; Notts happening; Bygones; Severed; Not a right; Not oppressed; Orangemen; Subtle
Real winners are elsewhere
Assaf Kfoury explains what the Lebanese elections are and what they are not
Against sectarianism
Nick Rogers argues against the CPGB’s tactics for the June 4 European elections. There should have been an unconditional call for a No2EU vote
No reason to vote Labour
James Turley agrees with offering No2EU conditional support but criticises the PCC’s call to vote Labour
Bureaucratic centralism lives
The SWP democracy commission was a sop offered to a membership demanding greater democracy. But the June 7 special conference agreed only tinkering, cosmetic changes, writes Peter Manson
Doubling up on a quiet week
Howard Roake reports on a less than exemplory week in the Summer Offensive
A revolution portrayed
Sarah McDonald reviews David King's Red star over Russia Tate Publishing, 2009, pp352, £25
Little monument to stoic heroism
David Douglass reviews Hywel Francis's History on our side: Wales and the 1984-85 miners’ strike Iconau, 2009, pp117, £9.99
Egg on whose face?
Jim Moody argues that the left’s current ‘anti-fascist’ pose has nothing in common with Marxist politics
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