Issue 1111
16 June 2016
Corbyn and the media trap
Labour should stop basing its strategy on appealing to the media - it will fail, argues Paul Demarty
About the best that can be said for Jeremy Corbyn’s appearance on last week’s edition of the Channel 4 comedy chat show, The last leg, is that it was not a disaster. It was not a success, either; but it could have been much, much worse.
Letters
Positive impact; Way back when; Basically true; White coats; EU evils; Three trends; Unsung hero
Gulag conditions are the new norm
Jeremy Corbyn is spreading illusions about the ‘progressive’ nature of the EU bureaucracy, writes Eddie Ford
Our strategy and tactics
Jack Conrad looks at the referendum - and beyond that to the challenge of continental unity
M5S is not a leftwing party
Why are elements within the left recommending a vote for Beppe Grillo’s party? Toby Abse points to its links with the far right
Principles of syndicalism
Dave Douglass reviews: Lewis H Mates, 'The great labour unrest: rank and file movements and political change in the Durham coalfield', Manchester University Press, 2016, pp328, £75
Curious delay and publication switch
Rexx Dunn reviews: 'Victor Serge and Natalia Sedova Trotsky The life and death of Leon Trotsky', Haymarket Books, 2016, pp396, £12.99
Blundering ineptitude
There are furious objections to the Morning Star giving Ken Livingstone a regular column. Peter Manson reports
Play your part
Help Robbie Rix accelerate
