WW archive > Issue 665 - 22 March 2007
Solidarity with Iran needs a fight on two fronts
Last week, tens of thousands of Iranian teachers went on strike, demanding an increase in their miserable wages and the resignation of the education minister. In Tehran over a thousand were arrested. Tina Becker also reports on the efforts of the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign to get more organisations involved
Letters
Good billionaire; CMP caricature; Build trust; Anti-semitism; Ignorant drivel; Copy editor!; Baseball batty; Taxing business; What abolition?; Reid response
New star recruit Tafazzal Hussain: businessman
Peter Manson on the former Lib Dem council candidate Tafazzal Hussain, who has just joined Respect
Step up pressure on union lefts to get John McDonnell on the ballot
If John McDonnell's name were to appear on the ballot paper to decide the Labour Party's new leader, that would bring with it the possibility of revitalising the entire left. However, thanks in large part to the cowardice of the left union bureaucrats, not enough Labour MPs have come under pressure to nominate him, says Jim Moody
Sparks, flashes and damp squibs
Andrew Coates reviews Nick Cohen's What's left? How liberals lost their way (Fourth Estate, 2007, pp400, £12.99)
Cross-class alliances endanger the struggle against Mugabe
The past week has seen a stepping up of imperialist propaganda against the regime of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, especially in the US and UK. But what is the situation on the ground? Peter Manson spoke to Mike Sambo, national coordinator of the International Socialist Organisation Zimbabwe
Stages, not stageism
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group defends of his theory of 'permanent democratic revolution'
Debate SWP won't have
The March 20 'people's assembly', billed by the Stop the War Coalition as "the debate parliament won't have", was, of course, nothing of the sort. Phil Kent reports
Tory resurgence and the left
Eddie Ford on the re-branding of the 'nasty party'