Twelve pages

The more observant among you will have noticed that your Weekly Worker is bigger - and, we hope, better - this week as the Communist Party and the whole Socialist Alliance moves into election mode. We have reintroduced the 'Our history' page to show new - and not so new - comrades the important role our Party has played in working class history in Britain (warts and all). And, of course, in order to learn to address the problems and challenges the future will demand of us.

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Number 379

Thursday April 12 2001

Sack the lot   -   Tina Becker argues for a Socialist Alliance call to abolish the monarchy

Turkey in crisis   -   Aziz Demir examines Turkey's economic and political climate

Chinese scapegoats   -   Jim Gilbert welcomes the Socialist Alliance response to the anti-Chinese rumourmongering campaign started by the government

Stop the National Front   -   Ian Donovan updates news of the struggle against the fascists in Bermondsey

New way of working   -   Louise Christian, Socialist Alliance prospective parliamentary candidate for Hornsey & Wood Green, spoke to Peter Manson

Letters   -   Economistic CPGB; National Front; Lessons of Newham; Welsh essentials; Read all about it

RMT witchhunt   -   Derek Goodliffe of the RMT grades executive concentrates the focus on action

Whither the Tories?   -   Michael Malkin sees William Hague's general election is about staying leader, not No.10

Socialising farming   -   Phil Kent sees small farmers on marginal land facing extinction as a class

Socialist Alliance roundup   -   SA Executive; Hackney; Nottingham; Teesside; Greenwich; Streatham

Our history: Red raid on Caerphilly   -   TA Jackson's account of the CPGB's first parliamentary battle 80 years ago

& column   -   Comments on Workers Power and Socialist Review, and a competition

SSP-SWP unity: May 1 target   -   Allan Green, national secretary of the SSP, reports on the April 2 meeting

RCN split averted   -   Sarah McDonald attended a meeting whose outcome was as strange as much of the content