Dog whistle politics in Tower Hamlets
Contrary to the right-wing myth that it is being transformed into “Britain’s Islamic Republic”, the east London borough of Tower…
Month: February 2018
Marxism and the jazz revolution
Frank Kofsky, John Coltrane and the Jazz Revolution of the 1960s, Pathfinder, 1998. Paperback, 500pp, £15.45. Reviewed by Bob Pitt FRANK…
Imagine no Marxist analysis
Tommy Sheridan and Alan McCombes, Imagine: A Socialist Vision for the 21st Century, Rebel Inc, 2000. Paperback, 252pp, £7.99. Last…
Where are Cameron’s ground troops?
The House of Commons foreign affairs committee posed the following question to David Cameron, pinpointing what is arguably the central…
Did Martin Luther King believe criticising Zionists is antisemitic?
Over the years, Martin Luther King Jr’s sympathetic view of Israel has been enthusiastically exploited by Zionists. If you want…
Tatchell, OutRage! and the Grand Mufti
Last month the notoriously homophobic mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, attended a mayoral summit meeting in London hosted by London’s…
Maryam Namazie and her allies
This week Maryam Namazie of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran announced the publication of a new book, Enemies Not Allies: The Far-Right.…
John Maclean and the CPGB
CONTENTS Preface John Maclean and the CPGB by Robert Pitt Appendix 1: The Communist Labour Party Appendix 2: The Maclean-Gallacher Dispute Appendix 3: John…
The unacceptable face of secularism
Will a UKIP-supporting ‘comedian’ who rants about ‘immigrant rapists’ get to be Secularist of the Year? The list of nominees for the…
The Socialist Labour Party: Why Arthur Scargill is wrong
The way in which Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party has been created must be without precedent in the history of…