Linguistic advantages Michael Rosen writes some entertaining and insightful articles in Socialist Worker, and elsewhere from time to time. I also enjoy his BBC programmes, where his light touch and preparedness to bring different opinions and experiences of language forward do him credit.
Should Unison give money to New Labour? As a member of the Unison union and the Labour Party, I wholeheartedly welcome the decision by Unison Labour Link to suspend support for the Labour Party pending the outcome of the dispute over the local government pension scheme (Socialist Worker, 1 April).
Problems on Italian left On Saturday 11 March, Italian police authorised a march by a section of Alternativa Sociale in Milan. This is an openly fascist coalition whose members include Allesandra Mussolini and Roberto Fiore, a suspect in the 1980 Bologna station bombing who fled to London.
