Many of us protested about Mugabe's land grabs, not because we opposed the redistribution of land to the landless but because the corrupt way it was done. A real workers and peasants government would have nationalised the land but found a way to let sympathetic white farmers continue to lease land and offer them incentives to manage a transition to collective farming.

Of course the Russian war against Chechnya was to be condemned and we did do so.

As for Tibet, we defend Tibetans from Chinese repression. But we don't see any progressive outcome in an independent Tibet. We see the interests of ordinary Tibetans being met in a future socialist federation of all the peoples currently living in in China. All of these national groupings would then have the right to secede or stay within this federation with whatever degree of autonomy they wanted.

Dave Brown