WW archive > Issue 768 - 07 May 2009
Letters
Front; Workers' Europe; No2EU disaster; Europhobia; Taxing questions; Sri Lankan Trots
Racism or nationalism
Much of the left continues to experience a great deal of difficulty in coming to terms with the British state's now highly developed official anti-racism, writes Peter Manson. The fact is that the state has colonised the left's anti-racism and turned it into its dialectical opposite - anti-racist national chauvinism
Differences 'no barrier' for us
Hands Off the People of Iran has received a letter from Andrew Murray, chair of the STWC, concerning Hopi's affiliation. Mark Fischer replies
Way forward for the anti-war movement
Yassamine Mather draws lessons from Iran's recent history and calls for a principled anti-war coalition under working class hegemony
Swapping icy wastes for scalding Rajasthani heat
Jim Moody reviews Wuthering Heights (director: Kristine Landon-Smith). At Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, until May 23
Sloganeering and socialism
Ted North reviews Martin Smith's Why 'British jobs for British workers' won't solve the crisis: why we need jobs for all Socialist Workers Party, 2009, pp26, £1.50
Contradictions in SP-led Left Unity
Dave Vincent looks forward to the May 21-23 annual conference of the PCS
No2 EU-UK, yes to a European republic
Dave Craig says republican socialists and communists should vote for RMT candidates
Politics of swine flu
Nationalise drug companies under democratic control, says James Turley