WW archive > Issue 1173 - 05 October 2017
Expelled for saying the unsayable
Labour Party Marxists attracted much praise and support from delegates at the Labour Party conference, in particular because of the excellent ‘Anti-Zionism does not equal anti-Semitism’ article written by Moshé Machover. Since then the right has taken its revenge. Around the country anyone who has expressed a liking for the LPM online or forwarded an article could well be on the receiving end of an expulsion letter. One of them is Moshé Machover. LPM’s Reg Kingston spoke to him
Letters
Progress; Expelled; Referendum; Notwithstanding; Now free him; Annihilation; Not in the bag; Devastating
Don’t be disheartened
Despite the outrageous expulsion of Moshé Machover, writes Tony Greenstein, Labour’s pro-Zionists are increasingly isolated
Abolish the standing army, establish a citizen force
James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists takes issue with shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and the repentant Trotskyite, Paul Mason
Taking elections seriously
In his second talk at the Labour Party Marxists’ and CPGB’s Communist University, August H Nimtz looked at Lenin’s approach to the tsar’s first two dumas
Capitulating to xenophobia
The Renzi government is now competing with the far right when it comes to migrants, writes Toby Abse
A Marxist philosopher
Hillel Ticktin remembers István Mészáros, December 19 1930 - October 1 2017
Dangerous games
There is a perverse rationality to the Spanish repression of the Catalan independence campaign, writes Paul Demarty