Weekly Worker 777 Thursday July 9 2009

Iran: Our solidarity and theirs

Yassamine Mather examines a regime in crisis and looks to working class forces for a solution

The continuation of demonstrations and protests against the Islamic republic of Iran, albeit on a smaller scale than two weeks ago, have fuelled further divisions at every level of the religious state ... more

Letters
Bolshevik tactics; Just resolution; Zeroing in; Moralistic; Peaceful; Perilous; Class action; Falsification; Ignored

Unremarkable volte-face
The SWP has raised more than a few eyebrows on the left with its coverage of the recent protests in Iran, writes Jim Grant

Anti-imperialism of fools
Phil Kent reports on the most recent Hopi meeting

Assessing Iran, debating the nature of the Labour Party
Jim Moody reports on discussions among CPGB members

Election confounds pundits
Assaf Kfoury looks at the confusion in the US on right and left

Still on course
Good, but no complacency, writes Howard Roake

Misunderstanding the miners’ strike
David Douglass reviews Francis Beckett and David Hencke's Marching to the fault line: The 1984 miners’ strike and the death of industrial Britain Constable, 2009, pp420, £18.99

One year of the miners’ strike
This article by Jack Conrad was first published in The Leninist March 1985. Also, Prepare for a general strike: A personal appeal issued by Jack Collins, secretary Kent Area NUM, to the Mineworkers’ Defence Committee conference on February 9 1985, and distributed in leaflet form by supporters of The Leninist

The pros and cons of internet power
James Turley looks at the role of new media in politics

Workers must not pay the price
No-one can doubt what the future has in store if the ruling class is allowed to get away with it, writes Eddie Ford

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