WW archive > Issue 782 - 27 August 2009
Obama’s reforms -inadequate and unfair
Healthcare is a long-running sore on the US body politic, writes Eddie Ford
Richard Hunt was not just a statistic
John Jo Sidwell recalls a well intentioned and honest young man
What sort of party and how to get to it
The final session of Communist University featured a roundtable discussion entitled Capitalisms crisis and how we should organise. There were four introductory speakers
Polling day quagmire
James Turley calls for troops out of Afghanistan now
Misogynist torturers cling to power
Workers are growing in confidence, reports Yassamine Mather
Ideological pigeonholes
Dave Osler reviews Ervand Abrahamians A history of modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp224, £14.99) and Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Mahjoob Zweiris Iran and the rise of its neoconservatives (IB Tauris, 2007, pp215, £20)
Most successful school yet
Peter Manson reports on a week of debate, learning and comradeship