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The necessity of class
Latest developments in the Socialist Workers Party must
have Tony Cliff spinning in his grave, believes Jack Conrad
Letters
AWL cultism; Moron; No bigot; First campism; Web hero;
Chutzpah; Excellent; Middle class?; Left values; Meetings
galore; Tasmania; Correction
For every occasion
The SWP has a front for every occasion - and a website
for each. Phil Hamilton reviews some of them
Defend Galloway
The Christian Science Monitor has withdrawn its allegation
against the rebel Labour MP, writes Kit Robinson
Awkward voices excluded
The SWP continues its witch hunt against victimised FBU
militant, Steve Godward
Supporting anti-gay candidates
Correspondence between the SWP's John Rees and Stuart
Richardson of Erdington SA regarding rumours of a 'Peace
and Justice' electoral campaign
Socialism 2003
About 250 people attended Socialism 2003, the annual school
organised by the Socialist Party in England and Wales.
Attendance figures certainly show how far things have
declined. In the 1980s Peter Taaffe’s organisation boasted
of three Labour MPs, dozens of councillors, hundreds of
full-timers and some 8,000 members. Militant booked the
Albert Hall for rallies, controlled Liverpool city council
and the Labour Party Young Socialists. Nowadays total
paper membership hovers around the 400 mark. More importantly
the organisation faces a crisis of perspectives. Held
over the weekend of June 28-29 at the University of London
Union, Socialism 2003 provided a glimpse of the present
state of the SP and its organisational and ideological
problems
Lula attacks public sector workers
Brazil's Workers Party president is in conflict with his
working class base. Fabio Bosco reports
Handsome is as handsome does
Dave Osler defends the SA's awkward squad ... and the
right to be in a minority
Route to mass workers' party
John Pearson extends an invitation to join Stockport recently
launched SA branch to ex-SLPer George Thorne
Anti-working class cancer
SSP member Ronnie Mejka charges the party with all but
ignoring the divisive role of religious bigotry in Scotland
Miners then and now
Dave Douglass review Martyn Waites Born under punches
Next year, comrades
Ben Lewis reports back from the inaugural Communist University
Wales
William Blake's real heritage?
Piers Hugill reviews Red sky at night: socialist poetry
The truth is out there
Manny Neira calls for solidarity for the peoples of Iraq
... and enjoys the Blair government's difficulties over
those missing WMDs
