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CONTENTS What Next? No.30 2005

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THROUGH WHAT STAGE ARE WE PASSING?  Ed George

PUNCTUATION MARKS:  A STORY OF CLASS STRUGGLE  Sheila Cohen

SO WHAT IS SECULARISM?  Ian Birchall

THORNETT AND RELIGIOUS HATRED:  A TROT WHO’S LOST THE PLOT  Geoffrey Brown

OUTRAGE! AND THE IRAN HANGINGS:  CHRONICLE OF A MANIPULATION  Pedro Carmona

THE ALLIANCE FOR WORKERS’ LIBERTY:  BRITAIN’S REVOLUTIONARY IMPERIALISTS  Tony Greenstein

LIES, DAMN LIES AND TONY GREENSTEIN  Daniel Randall and Sacha Ismail

APPRAISING THE SW PLATFORM IN THE SCOTTISH SOCIALIST PARTY  Gregor Gall

THE SW PLATFORM IN THE SSP:  A RESPONSE TO GREGOR GALL  Andrew Johnson and Mike Pearn

HEAD ON:  THE FRENCH LEFT AFTER THE REFERENDUM  Andrew Coates

MARXISM IS DEAD! LONG LIVE MARXISM!  Mike Rooke

THE IMPORTANCE OF HAPPINESS  Harry Ratner

UNDERSTANDING FASCISM:  DANIEL GUÉRIN'S BROWN PLAGUE  David Renton

THE MARXIST THEORY OF CRISIS  J. Winternitz


REVIEWS

•  Patrick Hutt, Confronting an Ill Society: David Widgery, General Practice, Idealism and the Chase for Change, reviewed by David Renton
•  James Curran, Ivor Gaber and Julian Petley, Culture Wars: The Media and the British Left, reviewed by Bob Pitt
•  Michael Barratt Brown, Edward S.Herman and David Peterson, The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic, reviewed by Ian Richardson
•  William Blum, Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire, reviewed by Will Podmore
•  Sun Ra, Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Vol.3: The Lost Tapes and Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra, Not In Our Name, reviewed by Robert Wilkins


LETTERS

Dean  in defence of the Wombles
Nicky Law  on the European Social Forum
Alan Johnson  defends his position on Iraq


AUTHORS

Ed George  is a member of the UGT trade union living in León in the north of the Spanish state

Sheila Cohen  is a labor educator in the US and former editor of the British rank-and-file paper Trade Union News

Ian Birchall  is a member of the Socialist Workers Party and author of Sartre Against Stalinism

Geoffrey Brown  doesn’t believe in God but believes it is possible to have alliances with those who do

Pedro Carmona  is a gay activist in Spain

Tony Greenstein  is a member of the Alliance for Green Socialism

Daniel Randall and Sacha Ismail  are supporters of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty

Gregor Gall  is a member of the Scottish Socialist Party

Andrew Johnson and Mike Pearn  are former members of the Socialist Workers Party

Andrew Coates  is active in the labour movement in Ipswich

Mike Rooke  is a tutor in Economics at Ruskin College, Oxford

Harry Ratner  is the author of Reluctant Revolutionary

Dave Renton  is the author of Dissident Marxism: Past Voices for Present Times