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No. 1209 May 2005

May 2005 PDF

  • Cartoon: Free Lunch

  • Voice From the Back

  • Greasy Pole: The Dark Side of Sunny Jim

  • Obituary: Ronnie Edwards

  • Film Review

  • Book Reviews: ‘Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?’, ‘GB84’, & ‘Down With The Fences’

  • Cooking the Books 2: Britain’s bonanza farms

  • I’ll Do It!

  • When Johnny Comes Marching Home

  • 50 Years Ago: The First of May

  • Wilfred Owen – war poet, icon . . .visionary?

  • The Profit System

  • 2005 General Election: Our Candidate’s Manifesto

  • 2005 General Election: Vote Effective – Vote Alternative

  • The 50th Anniversary of the Warsaw Pact

  • The Death of John Paul II

  • Cooking the Books 1: Islamic Bankers

  • Red Snapper: Sound bites and unsound nibbles

  • Pathfinders

  • Editorial: What about the real issue?

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