WW archive > Issue 854 - 24 February 2011
Goodbye to Gaddafi
He may still be admired by sections of the left, writes Eddie Ford. But we would wholeheartedly welcome the fall of Gaddafi in what is the first armed uprising in the Arab revolution
Letters
Walk for Iran; Identification; End detention; Vibrant; Illusion; People's history; Good start; Fight sackings; How so?; Welsh radicals; Waste of time; Laugh out loud
When all the crap began: Supplement Part 1
Women's oppression, class, organised religion, war, and private property are not natural, writes Jack Conrad
Self-determination and the fight for a socialist state
The Communist Party of Iran is an ex-Maoist organisation, which now states it is 'closer to Trotskyism'. On his recent trip to Iraqi Kurdistan, Rozh Ahmad visited the camp run by Komalah, the CPI grouping in Kurdistan, and spoke to Hassan Rahman Panah, a member of its central committee
Lies that refuse to be buried
On the anniversary of the 1933 Reichstag fire, Bob Potter looks back at the trial of Marinus van der Lubbe and Georgi Dimitrov
Despised by the Tory right
James Turley says that Kenneth Clarke is telling his party exactly what it does not want to hear
Release all political prisoners
John McDonnell MP launched the new campaign, 'Free Jafar Panahi and all political prisoners in Iran', at the February 12 annual conference of Hands Off the People of Iran
Record-breaking
Robbie Rix says we could certainly do with extra
Successful strike
Yassamine Mather reports Kurdish towns and cities closed down
Nuclear dangers and capabilities
With the decline of US hegemony and the loss of its ally in Egypt Moshé Machover fears that Israel could react irrationally and launch a spectacular attack on Iran
A Marxist culture free from the taint of Stalinism
In the first of two articles, Paul B Smith argues that Marxism must be distinguished from Stalinism if a new generation of anti-capitalists fighters are to be properly educated. The starting point must be Marx's 'Capital'
When all the crap began: Supplement Part 2
Women's oppression, class, organised religion, war, and private property are not natural, writes Jack Conrad