WW archive > Issue 676 - 07 June 2007
Hands off our pensions
Now that the stock market has seen a mild recovery, some larger companies are seeking a 'holiday' from their pension fund contributions. Jim Moody comments
Letters
Anti-CMP tirade; Misapprehension; Uncomradely; Not good enough; Boneheaded; Self-analysis; Correction; Await bad times; Bricks and mortar; Fully cocked; Contradiction; Dictatorship
Academics and trade unionists sign up
Steve Cooke on the latest news and signatories of Hands Off the People of Iran
Facing disintegration
As South Africa's public sector strike continues to escalate, the crisis besetting the South African Communist Party can only deepen. Peter Manson looks at the SACP's contradictory role
Politics and lure of fame
George Binette finds Julian Temple's film about The Clash frontman Joe Strummer engrossing, but occasionally cringe-inducing
End bureaucratic centralism
Unity of the Marxist left is both possible and realistic, argues Mike Macnair. What is lacking is the will
Humpty Dumpty programmers
The London debate over programme put on by the Campaign for a Marxist Party on June 3 was reasonably well attended - there were some 20 comrades present, though none of them were new faces. Phil Kent reports
'British road' dead end
Lawrence Parker reports from the AGM of the People's Press Printing Society (the body that owns and produces the Morning Star) on June 4
No technical solutions
Simon Wells reports on the G8's less than serious attempts to tackle climate change
Brown's left cover?
Labour's deputy leadership election has met with a pretty muted response from the left. This is hardly surprising, says Mary Godwin