WW archive > Issue 726 - 19 June 2008
Letters
Republic; Misinformed; Permanent Spart; Fighting squads; Isolated; Arbitrary; Joke
Financing our communist work
Howard Roak writes about the launch of this year's Summer Offensive
Build on success and credibility
Labour MP John McDonnell addressed the Hopi weekend school. This is an edited version of his speech
Principled approach to anti-war work
Hopi's two day school reflects its resonance in the working class. Chris Strafford reports
David Davis's populist turn
Jim Moody examines bourgeois liberal claims
In defence of Stalin
Tony Clark explains his 'Stalinism with an ecological twist'
Communists for the imam's line
Yassamine Mather continues her discussion of political islam. In this article she describes how the left's illusions in Tehran's 'anti-imperialist' foreign policies played into the hands of enemies of the working class
Left should not celebrate
The Lisbon Treaty has hit the buffers after rejection by the Irish electorate. James Turley outlines an internationalist approach to the European Union
Forced underground
The Zanu-PF regime of Robert Mugabe has stepped up its repression in the lead-up to the June 27 presidential election run-off against Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change. The offices of the International Socialist Organisation have been closed down as part of the regime's crackdown against all opposition groups. Peter Manson spoke to ISO leader Munyaradzi Gwisai
Imperialism is the main enemy
The theory of permanent revolution provides the revolutionary programme we need, writes Gerry Downing of the Campaign for a Marxist Party's Trotskyist Tendency