Weekly Worker 796 Thursday December 3 2009
To save the planet fight for a red world
Capitalism is showing itself to be totally incapable of cutting back on carbon emissions, writes Eddie Ford
With less than a week to the Copenhagen conference on climate change - and the Kyoto Protocol due to expire in 2012 - a new report by climate experts at PricewaterhouseCoopers has starkly declared that “the world” is already coming close to using up the “carbon budget” set for the period between 2000 and 2050. ... more
Letters
Kautskyan; Surprise vote; Soviet power; True vote; Simple; Military tips; Rambo; Border line; Abused child; Trotskyist mote; Correction
Child abuse, the church, and the Irish state
Anne Mc Shane reports on the child abuse scandal engulfing the Catholic church in Ireland. The case for a secular republic and confiscating the church’s property could not be stronger
Solidarity with workers key priority after June election
Chris Strafford reports on the annual general meeting of Hands Off the People of Iran
No way back for warmongers
Mike Macnair addressed the Hopi AGM on the continued threat of war. US imperialism has a new face, but when it comes to foreign policy it is business as usual
Ahmadinejad’s possible role in savage beatings
The Mail on Sunday (November 29) published a photograph purportedly showing Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the regime’s London consulate in April 1984. Comrades from the Fedayeen (Minority), who had forced their way into the building, were imprisoned and severely beaten by Iranian staff. Yassamine Mather was a member of the Fedayeen (Minority) at the time and spoke to the Weekly Worker about the incident
The polemical alternative
Peter Manson reports on the latest debates of CPGB members and supporters
Multicultural burrowing strategy
Mike Belbin reviews Kwami Kwei-Armah’s Seize the day Tricycle Theatre (ends December 19)
Splendid talking shop
James Turley reports on the Historical Materialism conference
A northern giant
David Douglass reviews Keith Armstrong’s Common words and the wandering star University of Sunderland Press. pp296, £7.95
Metaphor for neoliberalism
Dubai collapse points to continuing crisis, writes James Turley
Thursday donors
Robbie Rix discovers an area where there is room for improvement
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