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Declaration launched
CPGB comrades will fight for democracy, transparency and
a positive culture of debate within the Respect - Unity
Coalition
Letters
SSP or Labour; Mandates; Ungentlemanly; Unity Coalition;
Marginal left
Selective hearing
Phil Hamilton takes a look at Tony Blair virtual conversation
with the nation
Socialist Party gains second
Lewisham councillor
Chris Flood beat New Labour by exactly 100 votes and joins
his SP comrade Ian Page and an education campaigner as
councillor for the Telegraph Hill ward of the south London
borough. Peter Manson reports
ESF - learn from mistakes
Tina Becker joined over 130 other for the December 3 public
meeting to discuss the UK hosting ESF2004
Bush, Blair - hands off Iraq!
A campaign of solidarity with the democratic, progressive
and secular forces fighting against the occupation is
long overdue, argues Ian Mahoney
Break with yellow unions
Houzan Mahmoud of the Worker-communist Party of
Iraq reports on how one British left group continues to
side with the Ba’athist oppressors who once ruled Iraq
HQ wrecked
Statement of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU)
protesting against the attack by the US occupation forces
Wanted - an anti-capitalist
transitional programme
In the light of the electoral agreement struck between
Lutte Ouvrière and the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire,
Emile Fabrol of Gauche Communiste (a revolutionary
faction within the Parti Communiste Français) examines
the possibilities for left unity in France following the
mass strikes of May-June 2003
Electoral deal ratified
Peter Manson reports on the December 7 ratification of
the electoral bloc between the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire
and Lutte Ouvrière
Mary Godwin reports on the December 7 CPGB members'
meeting which discussed the organisation's attitude to
the Respect - Unity Coalition and debated the expulsion
of comrade John Pearson
Collapsing democratic centralism
The following statement was issued by John Pearson before
his expulsion. Despite his fulsome apologies he makes
clear his intention to continue voting against CPGB positions.
He would do so either when he claimed not to have received
“prior notice” or under cover of a mandate from Stockport
Socialist Alliance
Democracy Platform
and Respect
Marcus Ström attended the first committee meeting of the
Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform
R is for republicanism
Dave Craig challenges the political credentials
of the Respect coalition and the CPGB
Put socialism at core of coalition
Nick Wrack, chair of the Socialist Alliance, has issued
a statement welcoming the Respect coalition’s draft declaration
of principles and announcement that it is to contest the
European and Greater London Authority elections in June
2004
