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Number 450

Thursday October 3 2002

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Anti-establishment challenge to Blair
Peter Manson assesses the impact of last weekend's 300,000-strong 'Don't Attack Iraq' demo in London

Letters
Auto-SPD; Military support; Against Saddam; Capitulation; No platform; Faith undermined; Orwell's PC; Labour lefts; State-sponsored CPGB; Kiwi Labour; Tribunal success; Corrections

Foot - help needed
Socialist Alliance national secretary Rob Hoveman appeals for assistance with Hackney's mayoral contest

For a democratic anti-war movement
Stop The War Coalition must face up to the demands of imperialism's permanent war, urges Marcus Strom

Call for Socialist Alliance political paper reaffirmed
CPGB members met on Sunday. Mary Godwin reports on the debates and discussion

Saddam Hussein's reactionary regime
For workers in London, Washington and Baghdad the main enemy is at home, writes Martyn Hudson

Italian comrades play host
Tina Becker attended Rifondazione Comunista's annual Liberazione festival

Rifondazione leads Rome anti-war demo
Demonstrators took to the streets of the Italian capital. Sarah McDonald joined them

Break with capitalist ANC
On October 1 hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike across South Africa against the privatisation policies of the ANC, fronted by Jeff Radebe, one of six government ministers who are members of the South African Communist Party. Reporting from Johannesburg, Dale McKinley of the Anti-Privatisation Forum exposes ANC-SACP double talk

Weapon in the struggle
Stan Keable reviews Mike Wayne's Political film - the dialectics of third cinema

Corporate muscle and state power
Has corporate power distorted ‘true’ democracy? Can protest ‘reinvent’ the state? Mike Fitzpatrick presents his defence of Marx’s theory of the state and takes issue with the fashionable anti-globalisation ideas of George Monbiot and Noreena Hertz

Dictatorship of the proletariat and the Second International
In the third of his articles discussing peaceful and violent revolution Jack Conrad examines the use of the term ‘dictator-ship of the proletariat’ after Marx an Engels

Unions oppose Blair as revolt develops
Ian Donovan welcomes the rumblings of discontent echoing through the Labour Party conference hall