WW archive > Issue 653 - 14 December 2006
Copyright or human need
Communists are for the freedom of information, says Mike Macnair
Letters
Illegal; Preoccupation; Good PR; Boring; Silly mid-off; Colonial; Closed borders; Innocent thoughts; Christian names; Christian names; Wage labour; Against a Marxist Party; NUJ support; Not political; Not nationalist
Multiculturalism: facing both ways
Tony Blair's December 8 speech on multiculturalism shows that his government has no coherent programme to deal with the fact that the majority of British muslims oppose his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and are in general deeply alienated. Jim Moody reports
CS conference debates way forward
At the founding conference of Communist Students in Sheffield on Saturday December 9, some 20 comrades, most of them not members of the CPGB, were present. Ted North reports
No more historical abortions
Hillel Ticktin highlights the bogus nature of planning in the Soviet Union and locates the central importance of Europe for the transition to socialism
Fantastic reality - Marxism and the politics of religion
Religion is back with a vengeance. George Bush and the US christian right, holy Tony Blair and Britain's islamophobia, Russia's reinstalled orthodox church and India's saffron communalism, the toxic evangelicalism sweeping Africa and Latin America, Saudi Arabia's puritanical wahhabism and al Qa'eda's terrorism of spectacle, the Iranian theocracy and everywhere, it seems, the escape into the trench warfare of religious identity. But what is religion? In this extract from the introduction to his new book, Jack Conrad shows that the answer is not as straightforward as it might first appear
Kautsky, Lenin and Trotsky
What were the differences, strengths and similarities? Jack Conrad investigates