WW archive > Issue 892 - 01 December 2011
Marx's spectre haunts the wealthy and powerful
The ruling class has no workable strategy for rescuing the system, argues Hillel Ticktin
Letters
Slipped up; Build it; Inept Stalin; Betrayal; Distorted; 30 years behind; Tribune; Unrepresented; Bet on war
Nothing to contribute
The Durban conference on climate change is likely to be even more useless than its predecessors - James Turley argues it is time to serve notice on capital's stewardship of the environment
ULA must take itself seriously
Anne McShane argues that the United Left Alliance must take a lead
Zig-zagging social imperialists
What determines the Alliance for Workers' Liberty line is its support for 'democratic imperialism', writes socialist blogger Arthur Bough
Forging unified class action
Dave Vincent reports on the build-up to the big public sector strike
Alternative
Roobie Rix reports on a good month for the fighting fund
Pushed as far as we will go
David Douglass reviews Keith Pattison and David Peace 'No redemption: the 1984-85 miners' strike in the Durham coalfield' Flambard Press, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2010, pp104,
Left rhetoric and reformist illusions
The 1891 Erfurt programme adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany was regarded as a 'return to Marxism', writes Ben Lewis. If only the same could be said of Die Linke's 2011 version
Out to roll back the revolution
The military and the Muslim Brotherhood are only temporary allies, argues Eddie Ford