WW archive > Issue 668 - 12 April 2007
Double standards in London and Tehran
In the furore over the capture of British sailors and marines and their theatrical release by Iran's islamic regime, a number of essential points seem to have been forgotten by the British media, and even by so-called anti-war broadsheets, says Yassamine Mather
Letters
Sectarian SPEW; Philanthropy; Old style; Red letter day; Modern opiate; Cretinous; String us along; Imperialism; Take sides; Iraqi solidarity; Socialist market; Distorted; Inside job; Part of problem; Weekly luxury; 9/11 ‘truth’
Sheridan to back SNP
Both the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity are in self-destruct mode, says Peter Manson
Wales launch
Bob Davies reports on the launch of the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign in Cardiff
Hostage crisis and reactionary schemes
Without doubt, Iran's capture of the 15 UK sailors and marines - and then their eventual high-profile release - was a humiliation for British imperialism. And the subsequent row about whether some of the service members, especially Faye Turnway, should have sold their story to the mass media for large amounts of money has further soiled the entire incident for many in the UK establishment. Eddie Ford comments
More bad climate news
Jim Moody on the irrationality of carbon offsetting and carbon credits
Putting out the trash
Economic and political interpenetration both internationally and nationally makes a mockery of the Revolutionary Democratic Group's 'democratic permanent revolution'. Mike Macnair concludes his response to Dave Craig of the RDG
SWP backs the mullahs - official
The Socialist Workers Party-backed Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (Casmii) effectively operates as an apologist for the regime sitting in Tehran, says Eddie Ford
Giving internationalism new meaning
The Liverpool dockers' March for Social Justice took place 10 years ago, on April 12 1997. Chris Knight of the London Dockers Support Group, who acted as the main link with the Reclaim the Streets movement, looks back at the dockers' historic fight