Selection

• River's Edge has an excellent editing of the Carnival of Socialism.
  
  
• An excellent piece in the Guardian on the naval serviceman refusing to fight in Afghanistan.
  
  
• The Coalition are planning to abolish the detention of children. Now please.
  
  
• AVPS asks us to remember our posties this Christmas.
  
  
• Kevin highlights how the Telegraph misled the public over a death in custody.
  
  
• The Weekly Worker has an illuminating review of a Christmas Carol.
  
  "Dickens - and his protagonist, Scrooge - has to confront a contradiction here, between Christian religiosity as a bulwark of the existing social relations of industrial exploitation and impersonal finance, and Christianity as an embodiment of shared, communal life."