New year
Despite the fact that the champagne has gone flat, the turkey cold and the bank account into the red, 2002 is already shaping up to be a politically significant year. The launch of the euro, rebellion on the railways, revolution in Argentina.
All these events ask questions of the left. Will our commonly agreed Socialist Alliance policy of ‘Neither the pound nor the euro’ remain intact or will our allies collapse into parochial nationalism? Will we be able to gain support for our policy of rail renationalisation under workers’ and passengers’ control and link it to a rising tide of anger about the state of the network? Will we be able to furnish meaningful solidarity to the Argentine working class?
Underlying all of this is the need to draw the left together into deeper unity through the SA project.
The Weekly Worker and any successor will, of course, continue to seek the answers to these and other questions, while throwing ourselves into the fight for a single working class party. To do this we need your money.
The final total for December’s fund was a paltry £276 - with comrade KM’s £20 providing some additional festive cheer, but nowhere near enough to take us into the black for 2001. Angst over the shortfall was, however, dispelled by the bumper new year post. Thanks go out to comrades TK (£30), CM (£20), ML (£20), GH (£15) and - last but no means least - PM with £5. So we have made a promising start to the year with £90 towards our £450 monthly target. Let’s ensure that we make up for the Christmas shortfall.
Robbie Rix
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Number 414
Thursday January 10 2002
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Argentina in revolt
Ian Donovan looks at events in the South American country
Letters
Wrong slogans; SP praise; SSP diplomacy; RCN democracy; Web sabotage;
No authority; Gib lies; Time warp
Kashmir crisis and self-determination
The best way to oppose the scheming of the Indian and Pakistani ruling
classes is to champion self-determination argues Jim Gilbert
Currency launch: For a democratic Europe!
As much of Europe wakes up to the new currency Eddie Ford argues for democracy
A Communist morality
In the last of three articles Michael Malkin argues that our ethics must
be based on the needs of the class struggle
In humanity's name
In this edited version of his speech to a CPGB school in December, leading
Socialist Alliance member Mike Marqusee argues for socialists to adopt
an ethical approach in opposition to war
SLP sectarianism: Centralism or federalism
Alan Fox looks at an unofficial anti-SA bloc between the Socialist Party
and Scargill's party
Union link: Edmonds ups ante
The GMB general secretary has rattled his sabre. Bill Jeanes takes a look
Teesside SA: Socialist Campaign
Lawrie Coombs reports on the mayoral campaign in Middlesborough
Our history: 'Re-establishmenting' the Second
International
Article from the The Communist, January 1921
Railway rebellion
Derek Goodliffe reports on the disputes rocking the rail industry
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