Winter 2004

The battle for democracy in Iraq
Gary Kent calls for support for Iraq’s grassroots democrats

Coalition of the careless
Will Brown reports on a ‘left wing’ attack on Iraqi trade unionists

Save the Party … for Gordon Brown
Jonathan Timbers sees the STLP heading up some depressingly familiar cul-de-sacs

Cook’s report
Martin Cook on the ILP’s ‘Conversation of the left’

Africa: Imperialism goes naked
Sarah Bracking and Graham Harrison argue that imperialism is a more useful concept than globalisation

There is an alternative
Carl Davidson reviews David Schweickart’s After Capitalism

Foucault, power and the left
Martin Jenkins analyses Foucault’s concept of power

Reform of the House of Lords
It’s a side-show, says Sean Creighton