WW archive > Issue 959 - 25 April 2013
Women and revolution: Alexandra Kollontai, a leading fighter for women’s liberation
In the first of two articles, Anne McShane looks at the Bolsheviks most famous writer on the womens question
Letters
Trope; Cheap shot; Bad logic; Questions; Empty rhetoric; Hush; Man to man; Alpha Marx; Action vote; Support
Appeal from the editor
Peter Manson provides an update on our legal fund appeal
Labour Party: Murdoch’s Blairite offensive
Is Ed Miliband moving left? Mike Macnair examines what lies behind the campaign run by The Times
Reinhart and Rogoff: Austerity myth debunked
The UK has been downgraded again and total national debt has risen. Even by George Osbornes own criteria, writes Eddie Ford, Plan A has been an abject failure
Women and socialism: Bebel’s forgotten legacy
Ben Lewis reviews: Anne Lopes and Gary Roth, 'Mens feminism: August Bebel and the German socialist movement', Amherst, 2000, pp261, £28
Gender quotas: The two souls of tokenism
The gender imbalance in left groups cannot be cured by bureaucratic means, argues Paul Demarty
Italian election: Ex-‘official communists’ in disarray
Toby Abse reports on the fallout following the re-election of president Napolitano
Thatcher sanctification: The new Churchill?
Attempts to elevate Margaret Thatcher into a national hero are unlikely to succeed, writes Peter Manson
Margaret Thatcher: The woman who armed Saddam Hussein
Yassamine Mather digs up some of the recently departed's dirty politcal laundry
Aiming for the big time
Nigel Farage is in the process of rebranding his party in an attempt to shed its protest vote image. Micky Coulter wonders what his chances are
Web problems
Robbie Rix discusses our recent website crashes and our fighting fund target