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Number 467
Thursday February 13 2003
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For UK regime change
The main enemy is at home, writes James Marshall
Letters
Select few; Gallows; Fellating; Workmates; Paedophilia; Smeared; Hang
'em all?; SA website; Wonderland; Weak link; Parsnips; Hackney SA
Serving the movement
Phil Hamilton takes a look at the website of the Stop the War Coalition
- and is impressed by what he finds
Hidden alternative
The Socialist Alliance is firmly on the backburner as the SWP promotes
itself through the Stop the Wat Coalition. Ian Farrell reports
Vote Socialist Alliance
Firefighter Syd Platt is the Socialist Alliance candidate in the February
20 council by-election in Haverstock ward in the London borough of Camden.
Peter Manson spoke to him
No trust in UN
Imperialist divisions over Iraq offer workers opportunities to challenge
the system of capital, believes Ian Donovan
North Korea next traget?
The freak Stalinite monarchy of Kim Jong Il looks to be next in line after
Iraq, writes Kit Robinson
No repeat of 1914
Alan Stevens warns of the danger of allowing the lessons of our history
to remain unlearnt
Origins of islam
Jack Conrad looks at the genesis of one world religion squarely in the
public eye
Make unity real
Steve Freeman has announced his intention to stand for chair of the Bedfordshire
Socialist Alliance on behalf of the Democratic and Republican Platform.
A fellow comrade from the RDG spoke to him
Long expected move
Lewisham SA's Nick Long has finally jumped ship. Marcus Strom calls on
the Alliance to take itself seriously
‘Indies’ meet - two views
The Socialist Alliance’s so-called independents are by definition a motley
bunch. Lacking a programme and having been burnt by one or another of
the sects, they retreat into localism, invent bureaucratic solutions to
political problems and forlornly play court to the SWP. But parties -
real parties - are built top-down and often require fierce factional struggles.
The SA indies should either struggle to form themselves into a solid grouping
that can have a real, useful effect or the individuals concerned should
look to developing organisational relations with one or another of the
SA’s pro-party factions. Certainly, as the two - very different - reports
of their February 8 conference show, they are going nowhere fast as presently
constituted
- Rachel Cohen: Flawed but constructive
- Julian Silverman: Sad little assembly
Tina Becker and Anne Mc Shane report on the February 8-9 preparatory meeting of the European Social Forum which took place in Brussels
Lack of ambition?
Christophe Aguiton is a leading comrade on the French mobilising committee.
Like most of those from France participating in the ESF preparatory meetings,
he is a member of the lobbying group Attac, as well as the Confédération
Générale du Travail. He spoke to Tina Becker
Nation-state and feudal revolution
Mike Macnair reviews Patrick Geary's The myth of nations: the medieval
origins of Europe
Abolish the second chamber
With the government disagreeing over the consitution of a reformed House
of Lords Peter Manson calls for its abolition
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