WW archive > Issue 754 - 29 January 2009
Letters
G20 bastards; Illusions; Not capitalism; Sundry soup; Doomsayers; Anarchy in the UK; Serious debate; Caveat; Half-democracy; Idiots
Divisions bubble up again
...despite its dull title, the January 24 STWC 'national activists meeting' was not without interest, report Tina Becker and Simon Wells
Rallying against BBC inhumanity
Pro-Zionist agenda is exposed for all to see, writes John-Jo Sidwell
Trials of Tommy Sheridan
He recklessly disregarded his responsibility, writes Sarah McDonald
Convention party poopers
Discussions of programme or party were cut off in mid-flow. Chris Strafford reports on the Convention of the Left
SPD and the swamp
This previously untranslated article, 'After the Jena congress', by Rosa Luxemburg is of particular interest. A cool analytical summation of the Jena congress of German Social Democracy in September 1913, it sounds a warning against the new alignment of the party's centre and right against the left. In a sign of things to come, the Leipziger Volkszeitung - one of the many local SPD newspapers - refused publication1
Playing the public and the personal
Mike Belbin sees David Hare going beyond haranguing the British for denying that ideas matter
Fighting Fund
SO stalwarts
No escape for the millions
Alan Fox reviews Danny Boyle's latest film, Slumdog millionaire (on general release)
Anita's Star fails to shine
Lawrence Parker examines current problems at the Morning Star and its CPB satellite