WW archive > Issue 820 - 03 June 2010
Prostitution: decriminalise, not prohibit, not legalise
Amidst talk of a 'new Yorkshire Ripper' James Turley calls for a principled approach to sex work
Letters
Let them all on; Nauseating; Back to drachma; Holding lines; UCU for boycott; Moscow Gay Pride; New network
Victims of British justice
Eddie Ford thinks prisoners should be treated as human beings, and children as children
Proving Euripides right
We are now seeing the beginning of the end of the Zionist state, writes Tony Greenstein
Holmes and Bannister divide the left vote
The current election for Unison general secretary exposes the failure of the left. Will Pragnell looks at the manoeuvrings of Dave Prentis and the right and urges the left to unite
Left and right views
Two prominent figures in Die Linke spoke to Tina Becker
Models of revolution
Mike Macnair reviews Henry Heller's 'The bourgeois revolution in France 1789-1815' Bergahn Books, 2006, pp172, £20.13; and, David Parker's (ed) 'Ideology, absolutism and the English revolution: debates of the British communist historians, 1940-1956' Lawrence and Wishart, 2008, pp285, £18.99
Danger of honest opportunism
The draft programme of Die Linke represents an advance on its previous documents, writes Tina Becker, but that is not saying very much. While it condemns capitalism, the party's perspectives are unashamedly Keynesian and clearly reformist
Rethinking revolution
David Harvey, Marxist academic and author of the newly published The enigma of capital, spoke to Mark Fischer
Surprise!
Robbie Rix says that web contributions are still nowhere near enough