December/January 2006 Archive 

A cabbie writes Aubrey Morris was born into a Jewish émigré family in London’s East End in the early 20th century. Like many of his generation he gravitated towards radical politics. And he stayed there as he progressed from anti-fascist activist to cab driver to travel business mogul. His political engagement continues, including organising a well-known monthly political lunch club in London’s Gay Hussar. Here we print some extracts from his recently published autobiography

Climate change at Westminster The Labour government has announced a new climate change bill for the coming parliament. Is this a positive development or a false dawn? By Oscar Reyes

Murder in Samarkand In 2002, while political attention was focused on Iraq and Afghanistan, a troubled British diplomat was exposing the UK’s casual attitude to human rights abuses in Uzbekistan. Marcus Williams talks to Craig Murray about trying to tell the truth about torture and being branded mad by the Foreign Office

Not only about the war As the Democrats give contradictory signals on Iraq, the US anti-war movement prepares to exert pressure for withdrawal and compensation for war damage. But it’s not only on the military front that Bush is weakened. David Moburg reports

Costing the Earth The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change has forced even hardened neoliberals to acknowledge that there is a serious problem. But we need to look beyond Stern’s emphasis on the market to provide a solution, writes Derek Wall

Busy being reborn The Scottish Socialist Party has picked itself up after the ‘Tommygate’ shenanigans, says Roz Paterson, and is trying out new ways of building a socialist party

A warrior against the war Geoffrey Millard, 25, a former US Army sergeant, is president of the Washington DC chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War. He spoke to Leigh Phillips about how he became an activist in the anti-war movement

Un-free Kashmir The earthquake opened up Pakistan-controlled Kashmir to the world. Will Islamabad close it again? Graham Usher continues his special reports from Pakistan in Muzaffarabad

Rocks and hard places A recent attack on a madrassa in Pakistan shows up all that is wrong with Nato’s and Pakistan’s anti-Taliban policies, writes Graham Usher from Peshawar, in the first of two special reports from Pakistan

Popular revolt in Oaxaca Luis Hernández Navarro tells the story of revolt, repression and the emergence of new institutions of democratic power in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. He argues that it prefigures the future of popular protest – and power – across the country

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