WW archive > Issue 756 - 12 February 2009
Letters
Degradation; Half-baked; Materialist; Bravo; Chauvinist; Misleading; Shocking; Gaza solidarity; Polar; Give me space; Radical hat; Elephant room
Union-bashers target lavish lifestyles
How should the left respond to media claims that 'fat cats' can be found beyond the ranks of capitalists and bankers? Alan Stevens looks at the contradictory social position of the trade union bureaucracy
Fighting Fund
Fill the breach
Proud as punch
David Douglass reviews Brian Witts's Enamel badges of the National Union of Mineworkers Orphans Press 2008, �33
Islamic revolution or counterrevolution
On the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution, Torab Saleth examines its historical roots
Everything to play for
Jean-Michel Edwin examines the New Anti-capitalist Party
Abstention or intervention
After the victory by the Lindsey wildcat strike, James Turley draws some lessons
Workers told to share pain
As the Irish economy goes into free-fall, the government has turned on the working class. Anne McShane reports
Justice and shame
Jim Moody reviews The reader (dir: Stephen Daldry, 2008), on general release
Keeping Hopi out - in the name of unity
Nicholas Jones reports on the February 7 meeting of student activists called by the Stop the War Coalition