WW archive > Issue 783 - 03 September 2009
Battle of the Ballot Box
John Masters looks at the previous performance of left candidates and discusses the attitude communists should take in the 2010 general election
Psycho-babble about Trots
Mike Macnair reviews Jan Willem Stutjes Ernest Mandel: a rebels dream deferred Verso, 2009, pp600, £19.99
You are what you eat
Crude attempts to introduce market incentives in the NHS have led to a massive increase in bureaucratic waste, writes Eddie Ford
Oskar Lafontaine: ‘We want to govern’
The results for the German left party Die Linke in the August 30 regional elections are impressive, particularly the 21.3% achieved in the federal state of Saarland. But is this the beginning of the end for the party of opposition? Tina Becker takes a closer look
Loyal to the bureaucracy
AJ Byrne reviews Andrew Murrays The T&G story: a history of the Transport and General Workers Union 1922-2007 Lawrence and Wishart, 2008, pp224, £14.99
VI Lenin and the influence of Kautsky
In the first of three talks given at the CPGBs Communist University, historian Lars T Lih discussed the relationship between two great Marxists. This is an edited version of his speech dealing with the period 1894-1914
CWU prepares for national strike
Rank and file organisation is the need of the hour in the CWU, writes Jim Moody
Lockerbie, Libya, and global control
James Turley asks who is the real threat to the worlds masses