WW archive > Issue 811 - 01 April 2010
Proportional representation and Brown's opportunist ploy
What sort of electoral system should communists advocate? Moshé Machover - mathematician, lecturer in philosophy and leftwing activist - examines the alternatives to 'first past the post'
Letters
April fool; Flawed; Self-critical; Split it up; Juvenile; Heavy-handed; Condescending; Silly; Strategy change; Amok
Let diversity flourish on left
CPGB members from Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire are supporting Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition general election candidate Paul Crofts in the Wellingborough and Rushden constituency. Dave Isaacson spoke to him about the campaign
Misusing Marx and Engels
Allan Armstrong of the Scottish Socialist Party's international committee replies to Nick Rogers
SWPism without the SWP
Mark Fischer looks at the new project of Lindsey German and John Rees
Darling promises to be the kinder butcher
With Tory confusion on the economy, the general election looks to be very close, writes James Turley
Not the dawn of non-nuclear peace
Eddie Ford warns that the US-Russia agreement on nuclear arms is also about targeting Iran
Socialists in trade union clothing
Peter Manson was at the very modest official launch of the latest halfway house project
McDonnell campaign hots up
Tina Becker reports from Hayes and Harlington on the problem of distinguishing candidate from party
Church on the ropes
Pope Benedict XVI claims he is being targeted by a malicious smear campaign. Anne Mc Shane disagrees. The Catholic church is guilty of a criminal cover-up when it comes to child abuse
Taken for granted
Robbie Rix is disappointed to have fallen a bit short this month