To mark the 70th anniversary of the General Strike of May 1926, the Weekly Worker will carry contemporary articles from the communist press each week
The menace of May
From The Workers’ Weekly, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, February 12 1926
[Home secretary] Sir William Joynson Hicks went to great lengths ... to outline the elaborate plans made in preparation for the crisis ahead.
He said ... that he ... “knew no class in this matter”, that they were acting in the interests of “the community as a whole”. But every word he said and every plan he outlined was designed to secure the defeat of any general strike that may arise.
To value his words rightly we must remember that the coal owners (whose point of view he accepts) have declared themselves as determined upon wage reductions and lengthening of hours unless the subsidy continues, and that Sir William is the man who has said plainly that “under no circumstances can the subsidy be continued”.
... This was made clear by the manner in which he singled out [miners’ leader] AJ Cook for his special venom, and on the grounds that Cook has declared his slogan to be “Not a penny off the pay; not a second on the day.” This, says ‘Jix’, is “not treating the country fairly”. Could we have a finer comment on the premier’s ‘peace’ talk?
The whole working class should take the alarm. If the leaders will not lead, the rank and file (through the Minority Movement’s Conference of Action) must make them clear the road for those who will.
Number 130
Thursday February 15 1996
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New fight for Ireland
The ending of the IRA ceasefire with the Docklands bomb may have temporarily
stalled negotiations, but all parties are committed to getting them back
on track
Letters
Trotskyist move to CPGB; Basic mistake; Ex-worker; CPUK; Simple socialism;
Workers arrested
Important steps
Kevin McQuillan, leader of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, spoke
to the Weekly Worker
Social security cuts: Scorched earth policy
Challenging reformism?
Nick Clarke spoke to Allan Green, coordinator of the Scottish Socialist
Alliance, after its conference last week
Communist press: Who’s for the SLP?
Heresy and orthodoxy
Danny Hammill reviews Reinventing Darwin: The Great Evolutionary Debate
The RDG programmists
Bob Smith - For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee
World politicians
Marcus Larsen of Communist Party Advocates writes from Australia
Self-defence is no offence
Linda Addison reports on the case of Satpal Ram
Reconstruction of the left
Bob Smith of the CPGB faction, For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee,
poses his questions about the reconstruction of the left to comrade Arman
Arani of the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran on the anniversary
of the Iranian revolution
Scottish Socialist Alliance launched
A working class party is built and united around a political programme,
argues Ian Mahoney
Vote Labour, but ...: Ballot box or ‘Bolshevism’?
SWP stupidities on ‘electoralism’ make easy targets, writes
Mark Fischer
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