HIJAB:  A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE  Salma Yaqoob

THEO VAN GOGH:  HERO, ANTI-SEMITE, MISOGYNIST OR ISLAMOPHOBE?  Herman de Tollenaere

A ‘CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS’, SENDING PINK SPARKS FLYING?  Yoshie Furuhashi

WOMBLING FREE?  ANARCHISTS AND THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM  Geoffrey Brown

EXTENDING THE CIRCLE OF COMPASSION:  SOCIALISM AND ANIMAL RIGHTS  Terry Liddle

BROWNSHIRTS IN BLAZERS?  THE RISE OF UKIP  Martin Sullivan

NEITHER NEW LABOUR NOR GEORGEOUS GEORGE:  HOW ONE OLD TROT ENDED UP A RELUCTANT GREEN VOTER ON SUPER THURSDAY  Dave Osler

RESPECT COALITION:  NO JOKE  Martin Sullivan

PROSPECTS FOR THE LEFT IN SCOTLAND  Vince Mills

THE END OF AN ENDURING ALLIANCE? TRADE UNION-LABOUR RELATIONS  Gregor Gall

CPGB:  CENTRISM, VACILLATION AND CAPITULATION  Ian Donovan

THE STALINIST STATE IN CHINA:  THE SOCIAL MEANING OF MAO TSE-TUNG’S VICTORY  Wang Fanxi

A DANISH TROTSKYIST IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR  Åge Kjelsø

REVIEWS

•  Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny, Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union, reviewed by Mike Rooke
•  Clara Nieto, Masters of War: Latin America and United States Aggression from the Cuban Revolution Through the Clinton Years, reviewed by Will Podmore
•  Peter Singer, The President of Good and Evil: Taking George W. Bush Seriously, reviewed by Catherine Lafferty
•  Glenn McGee and Arthur Caplan (eds), The Human Cloning Debate, reviewed by Will Podmore
•  Francis Wheen, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions, reviewed by Bob Pitt
•  Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, reviewed by Will Podmore

LETTERS

Patrick Ainley  on Livingstone, Labour and the War
Darren Williams  on Livingstone and the Sun
Matt Davies  on UKIP
Dave Roberts  on Trotsky and the United Front

CONTRIBTORS

Andrew Coates  is a socialist and secularist living in Ipswich who has been active on the French left

Salma Yaqoob  is a member of Respect – the Unity Coalition in Birmingham

Herman de Tollenaere  is a historian living in the Netherlands

Robert Wilkins  is a member of the Labour Party

Yoshie Furuhashi  is radical activist in the United States and author of the Critical Montages weblog

Geoffrey Brown  is a Marxist who believes that the principles of Marxism are opposed to those of anarchism

Terry Liddle  is a socialist and animal rights supporter

Martin Sullivan  is a member of the Labour Party

Dave Osler  is an independent socialist and critical Green voter

Vince Mills  is a member of the Labour Party in Scotland and secretary of the Campaign for Socialism

Gregor Gall  is Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Stirling and a member of the Scottish Socialist Party

Ian Donovan  is a member of Respect – the Unity Coalition and a former member of the CPGB