Solidarity

Defend Tommy Sheridan

Richard Dawkins

Stop the War

Robert Owen Institute

Illustration: Debt Bubble copyright Steve Arnott

• Editorial - Left Unity initiative should be welcomed
• Editorial - Solidarity Statement on the American Election, the economic crisis and the Scottish left

• Issues - Gary Fraser - The NHS at sixty, Jock Penman - Community Ownership, Solidarity Statement on the banking crisis

• Science - Paul Cockshott on 'The physics of socialism'

• Culture - The Ferryman - a short story by John Aberdein, Mary Craig on The Persecution of Witches in 17th century Scotland

• International – Iain Macleod on Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution , Israel unleashes hell on Gaza - John Wight

• The Big Idea - The Bubble Bursts, Steve Arnott and Donald Morrison examine the biggest capitalist crisis for decades and argue that socialism is the only rational response

• + Your Letters – Anne MacLeod on Tommy and Big Brother, open letter from Colombia, more on opera, and housing schadenfreude