Education

Why Marxists Fight Against Political Religion: the Catholic Church

James P Cannon Catholic Action: A rift in the Iron Curtain, by James P Cannon (1947) The Catholic Church 1: From Hollywood To Rome (1951) The Catholic Church 2: Church and State The Catholic Church 3: The Protestant Counter-attack Max Shachtman Fighting sin or fighting capital? A Debate on Socialism and Religion (1949) Appendices The truth about Marxism and religion The Left's accommodation with Islam now and the 1960's Stalinist “dialogue between Marxism and Christianity” (1967)

The Tyrant Died Bravely

Hang the bastard? They have. Saddam Hussein was hanged in Baghdad on 30 December. He should have been hanged a long time ago! It is a great pity it was not the Iraqi workers, but the invaders and the Shia-dominated government of Iraq, that, 40 years too late, put the hangman’s rope around Saddam’s wretched neck. The most surprising thing about the circumstances surrounding the hanging of Saddam Hussein is the international reaction to it. Part of the gruesome ceremony was obligingly filmed by his captors and released to the world press and TV networks. Someone made an “unofficial” record of...

An Irish horror story all workers can learn from

An 81 year old retired Irish cardinal, Desmond Connell, has gone to the High Court in Dublin for a writ to stop his successor as Archbishop of Dublin handing over church files on paedophile priests to a state-organised inquiry into clerical abuse of children. He has called on the court to prevent the head of the Catholic Church in the Dublin diocese from handing over information about criminal priests to the government-appointed investigation. He has got an interim writ, freezing proceedings until there can be a full court hearing. He claims that some of the files contain solicitors’ advice to...

The monthly survey

Teachers' union at crossroad (Pat Murphy) Fighting redundancies in Liverpool (Cate Murphy) Youth in Britain, never had it so good? (Niall Brown) Fight for democracy in New Labour (Adie Kemp) Students must build on the ground (Mick Duncan) New solutions? No solutions! Bill Davies The transformations of vegetarians into cannibals and cannibals into profits (Ann Mack) Mad cows and Mad economics (Colin Foster) Mad cows and Englishmen (Les Hearn) Download PDF

Monthly survey

Russia after the elections (interview with Boris Kagarlitsky) Hopes and fears in Bosnia (Chris Reynolds) Oppose the Asylum Bill! (Dale Street) Who backs Scargills SLP? (Tom Willis) Stalemate in N.Ireland. Why? (John O' Brien) Defend Nigerias workers! Mark (Sandell) Blackboard jungles: why school violence? Download PDF

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