WW archive > Issue 806 - 25 February 2010
In defence of Leon Trotsky
Hillel Ticktin demolishes Robert Service's much hyped Trotsky: a biography (Harvard University Press, 2009, pp600, £25)
Letters
Stand alone; Politically correct; Iraqi fiasco; Say sorry; Unique oil; Brits out; Misquoted; Blank sheet; Encouraging
Hopi week of action
Reports from England, Wales, and Ireland by Ben Lewis, Dani Thomas, and Anne Mc Shane
Bureaucratic centralism and ineffectiveness
The split of the John Rees-Lindsey German Left Platform from the Socialist Workers Party has generated a small round of discussion on the party question in the left blogosphere, writes Mike Macnair. But what is missing is a recognition of the need for Marxist unity
By way of deception
Israel is fully signed up to the hypocrisy and double standards of western imperialism, writes Tony Greenstein
Storms and teacups
Both the media and bourgeois politicians want us to concentrate on personal strengths and weaknesses. But that is not the main issue, argues James Turley
Crisis poses EU workers' unity
Jim Moody examines Greek left organisations' responses
Two wrongs don't make a right
Yassamine Mather looks at the politics, hypocrisy and dangers of Ahmadinejad's nuclear programme
Developing Marxist theory
The Critique journal is celebrating its 50th issue. Peter Manson spoke to its editor, Hillel Ticktin
Help us out
Robbie Rix says that we need extra - and soon