WW archive > Issue 1008 - 01 May 2014
UKIP: Part of mainstream chauvinist consensus
Getting jittery, the Tory machine and large sections of the media are attacking the ‘unBritish’ Ukip. Eddie Ford is not surprised
Letters
Thorny questions; Stigmatised; Left vote; Sullied idea; Privileged; Antidote; Victimised rep; Hurt feelings
CPGB aggregate: Left strategy and election tactics
Jim Moody reports on discussions at the April 27 aggregate of CPGB members
EU elections: Trying to vote internationalist
Peter Manson outlines how to approach the May 22 EU elections
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for the masses
Joseph Kessel calls for the works of the founding fathers of scientific socialism to become the ‘property’ of the workers’ movement as a whole, not the subject of bourgeois copyright laws
Safe spaces cotton wool
Tina Becker reports on the development of the Sheffield branch of Left Unity
Political legacy of hostage crisis
The 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran had nothing to do with ‘anti-imperialism’, argues Yassamine Mather
Ottoman genocide remembered
Last week saw the 99th anniversary of the first detentions which led to the Meds Yeghern slaughter. Esen Uslu explains how a ‘Turkish’ state was created out of the Ottoman empire
Miners review: Parallel Universes
Ajay Close Trust Tippermuir Books Ltd, 2014, pp355, £9.99
Left unity: Playing happy families
The protracted regroupment talks between Socialist Resistance, the International Socialist Network and others continue; as does their political confusion, writes Paul Demarty
Conspiracy
Robbie Rix has been beset by technical gremlins this week. But he knows you're out there