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Number 425

Thursday March 28 2002

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Imperialist war - no; Class war - yes
Capitalism and war are inseparably linked, writes Ian Mahoney

Letters
Third US revolution; CWU demo; Two SA papers; Political fund; Do what?; Class caricature; Introduction

Sheridan comdemns MSPs' pay hypocrisy
Ronnie Mejka welcomes Tommy Sheridan's stance on the Holyrood pay-hike

LSA activists meeting: Build election campaign
Lack of clarity over our local election intervention has its source in the SWP's central committee, writes Marcus Strom

Pakistan socialist jailed for protest
Farooq Tariq, general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, describes his experience under lock and key

Smoke and mirrors polemic
Does the Alliance for Workers Liberty want a revolutionary socialist party? Or is the SA just a site to intervene against the SWP? Should an official SA paper contain polemics and fight opportunism? Should we stop calling ourselves ‘Marxists’, ‘Leninists’ and ‘communists’ because the Stalinite counterrevolution was carried out using these terms? Did economism pass away in the early years of the 20th century? Or  is it still alive and flourishing in the AWL? Jack Conrad looks for answers

Zimbabwe: Repression stepped up
Workers must looked to their own self-activity to challenge Mugabe

London meeting expresses ISO solidarity
Danny Hammill reports on the SWP-sponsored Marxist Forum at London Africa Centre

Fighting for another world
Eddie Ford takes a look on Italy's massive mobilisation

Tories relaunch - again
Murice Bernal reports on the Conservatives' latest rebranding exercise

Labour prisons crisis
Mary Godwin calls for the humanisation of the prison system

Crow injects controversy
Anne Mc Shane attended the recent Stop The War Coalition rally in London

Prepare to fight
Post workers must organise now to resist job attacks, writes Alan Fox