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

No more Black Fridays

From The Workers’ Weekly, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, February 19 1926

To many the most important feature in The Workers’ Weekly each week is the diary of labour events, ‘From the front’ ...

Week by week, the diary shows similar features. Nibbling here and nibbling there, the masters of industry are rapidly and confidently wearing away at the standards of the workers. It is not only the great frontal attacks of the bosses, as shown in the coal offensive, or the engineering situation; there are dozens of skirmishes besides.

And they are all part of a concerted campaign. They are all the result of a determination to attack and break down once and for all the poor enough present standards of the workers in all industries.

... The aggressors must be hurled back and we must transform our own defensive movement into an attack upon capitalism. That is the only hope, the only way out, for the workers.

But in order to carry out our defence, and our future attack, we must have plans. Our strategy must be perfected in advance. And there isn’t much time to spare! The bosses are pressing us hard.

It is for this reason that the National Minority Movement has called a special Conference of Action for March 21 ...

This will be a great national rank and file delegate meeting, to draw up plans for resisting the capitalist attack; and not merely draw up plans, but put them into action!

Number 132

Thursday February 29 1996

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Communists and the Socialist Labour Party
Should partisans of the working class shape the SLP or attack it from the sidelines, asks Jack Conrad

Party notes: A conduit to party

Letters
Alternative view; Severing links; Self-appointed task; LRCI capitulation

Workers and the state of the nation
Revolutionaries need to take seriously the need to fight for political reform, writes Chris Jones

SE London SA launch
Peter Manson reports on the recent launch of the Bexley and Greenwich Socialist Alliance

Movement of the class
Danny Hammill reports on last week’s CPGB aggregate

Revolutionary republicanism
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) challenges Paul Cockshott's understanding of the democratic revolution

Debating the SLP
Lee-Anne Bates reports on last Saturday’s CPGB day school on the Socialist Labour Party

Communists and the SLP
Bob Smith - For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee

Stalin, Khrushchev, left and right
Steve Kay reports on the current state of Russian politics

Communist press
Workers Press Conference

USA rattles sabre at Cuba
The US government never ended its cold war against Cuba. John Craig looks at recent events

Thatcherism vs Scargillism
The miners’ Great Strike of 1984-5 pitted the reorganised Tories against the syndicalistic politics of Scargill. Our class must learn the vital lessons from this titanic clash

Loyal servants of imperialism
Tory and Labour speak with one voice, writes Jim Blackstock

IRSP warning
British occupying forces have stepped up preparations for intensifying their repression in the Six Counties, reports Alan Fox

Scottish Councils should resign or fight
40,000 people took to the streets of Edinburgh against the devastating education cuts. Nick Clarke reports

In brief
Dockers’ solidarity; Firefighters; Jobs not Job Seekers Allowance; Justice for David Ewin