Socialist Worker Socialist Worker  George Monbiot has
misrepresented Marx's Communist Manifesto  Colin Barker takes
issue with George Monbiot's arguments against Marx  George
Monbiot, the Guardian columnist, is always worth reading, even
when I disagree with him-over the euro, for example. His recent
book, The Age of Consent, gives a damning critique of the modern
world. Those key institutions of modern world politics and
economics-the UN, IMF, World Bank, WTO- work against the
interests of the poor world. He offers a programme for
fundamental reform.  George argues for an elected world
parliament, to replace the undemocratic UN Security Council. He
suggests ways to make the world trading system operate to
promote, rather than destroy, Third World economies. Agree or
not with all his proposals, his book is definitely worth reading
for the material he assembles on the current injustices of world
power and inequality.  However, between pages 26 and 30, George
simply falls off his trolley. As prelude to his main