Weekly Worker 787 Thursday October 1 2009
Anti-BNP class-collaboration
The left’s spluttering response to Nick Griffin’s invitation to appear on Question time reveals a floundering political strategy, argues James Turley
Yet it should be noted that the basic error here is one of class analysis - that is, the UAF perspective flows perfectly naturally from the axiom that anti-fascist activity is a persistent and overriding duty of the workers’ movement. ... more
Letters
Confused?; Sex security; Vetting vaccine; Quiet life; Eco-obsession; Left out; Illuminating; Afghanistan; Language tool
You couldn’t make it up
With the general election now, at most, seven months away, what is happening with left unity projects? Peter Manson surveys recent developments
Lions led by donkeys
Matthew Cobb, dubbed an anti-communist by the Morning Star, examines the contradictory role of the French Communist Party during World War II
- Assassination as a political weapon
Matthew Cobb describes an ultra-loyal PCF squad that killed imagined 'traitors'
Threats over uranium enrichment aid regime
Ahmadinejad uses the ‘enemy without’ to justify increased repression, arrests and the torture of the ‘enemy within’, writes Yassamine Mather
Success poses new questions
With an astonishing 11.9% of the vote at the September 27 national elections, the German left party Die Linke now has 76 members of parliament. Tina Becker reports
The ‘new Indian’ tiger
On October 6, the winner of the Man Booker prize will be announced. All but one of the shortlisted works are ‘historical fiction’. Last year, however, the winning novel was set in present-day India - The white tiger by 34-year-old Aravind Adiga. Mike Belbin weighs up its appeal to UK judges and asks whether or not it does credit to the ‘new India’ of technological and cultural advance
Rooted on campus
Communist Students have been winning supporters at freshers fairs Chris Brandler reports from Manchester
Writing on wall for Brown
Brown’s primary objective at Brighton was to present himself as the saviour of capitalism, writes Eddie Ford
Tremendous
Robbie Rix gives thanks for payments, even guilty ones
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