God’s cold war warrior

international | worker & community struggles and protests | other press Monday April 11, 2005 23:27 by hs - sp

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The reaction of the mainstream media and ruling classes to the death of pope John II must have, at the very least, bemused many people. How, after all, could this elderly leader of medieval, obscurantist Roman catholicism, which has been mired in so much scandal of late, have beguiled the world in the way the media is now claiming ‘John Paul the Great’ did so miraculously? Surely it defies the laws of history!

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Letters
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The right to say what is
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Communists and open polemic
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God's cold war warrior
Cameron Richards investigates the role that John Paul II played in the downfall of official communism


An autocratic reactionary
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Wasted opportunity
George Galloway displayed his catholic credentials on the BBC’s Question time last week, when he firmly sided with the disgusting ‘right to life’ propaganda of the dead pope and George W Bush, says Tina Becker


Vote Labour anti-war
Mark Fischer investigates which Labour candidates deserve our vote

Hitler and the angst-ridden corridors of Nazi power
Ben Lewis reviews the fascinating film Downfall (Der Untergang) which has caused controversy in Germany and Britain


From words to deeds
Graham Bash calls for votes and support for Labour’s anti-war candidates


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