James Turley reviews Kenan Malik’s From fatwa to jihad: the Rushdie affair and its legacy Atlantic, 2009, pp266, £16.99 The year 2009 is the anniversary of many things - the 20th of the collapse of the eastern bloc countries that instigated the final death of a decrepit Stalinism; the 25th of the Miners’ Great Strike; and ...
The furore over The great global warming swindle is about more than climate change denial, argues James Turley After over a year of wrangling, the Office for Communications (Ofcom) media watchdog has found Channel 4 in breach of various sections of the broadcasting code, over the documentary The great global warming swindle. The programme triggered a serious ...
All democrats, socialists and democrats should reject efforts by student unions to actually increase state censorship. By Shelley Martin The NUS has an automatic ‘no platform policy' in place, which bans all members of the British National Party and the Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir from standing in NUS elections on any levels. It also bans them ...
First published in Communist Student no.3 The Stop the War Coalition’s student grouping has censored a critical article on the question of Iran, submitted by CS member David Isaacson - an indication of the lack of democracy that still cripples much of the left Any Facebook-using comrades who looked at the new Stop the War Students group ...