WW archive > Issue 789 - 15 October 2009
Open letter to the Socialist Workers Party
Mark Fischer, the CPGBs national organiser, questions the worth of SWP calls for unity
BNP contradictions
James Turley reviews Nigel Copseys Contemporary British fascism Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp264, £19.99
Sum of its parts
Many students are completely inexperienced politically, but are beginning to question the system, write Ted North and Dave Isaacson in Oxford
Joining a rogues’ gallery
Barack Obama is presiding over an escalation of military action in Afghanistan. Despite that, he is a hero for the liberal bourgeoisie, writes James Turley
A symptom of capitalist decay, not the main enemy
Eddie Ford sees the SWP and those that follow its example on a disastrous and self-defeating course
Rhetoric, stunts, and divisions
Chris Brandler assesses the lefts mobilisation in Manchester against the English Defence League
The Iranian coup four months on
Mehdi Kia examines the state of the movement against the clerical regime
Terror in a tank
Jim Moody previews some of the offerings at this year's London Film Festival
Mapping a viable future
Debating Israel/Palestine. Peter Manson reports