WW archive > Issue 763 - 02 April 2009
Letters
El Alamein; No longer vacillating; Burnt by bureaucratic centralism; Obnoxious anti-Euro platform; Trade mercy; Liverpool calling
Successes and shortcomings
Laurie McCauley and David Sabbagh describe the student occupation at Sheffield university
Mines: 'our' industry?
This article by Frank Grafton, from The Leninist of July 1984, was our first extensive intervention against the class-collaborationist politics that ostensibly underpinned the miners' Great Strike
Seven years of torture
Abolish MI5 and the whole secret state, writes James Turley
Fighting Fund
Flexible
Egypt: Day of rage
We ask for solidarity from our brothers and sisters around the world, writes Ahmed Younis
Studying the past to grasp the future
Mike Macnair reviews Boris Kagarlitsky's Empire of the periphery: Russia and the world system London 2007, 384pp, £35
Socialist Party silent on left nationalism
Peter Manson exposes a mixture of popular frontism and 'socialism in one country' anti-EU nationalism
Protesters greet G20 prime ministers and presidents
Communists must do their utmost to overcome illusions in the potential for capitalism's top representatives to deliver, writes John Sidwell
Economic crisis fuels rank and file anger
Anne McShane identifies an urgent need for the left to fill the vacuum