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Two conferences
Jack Conrad contrasts the confidence and vibrance of the
Scottish Socialist Party to the death rattle of the Socialist
Alliance, struck down by its own leadership
Letters
Hunger strikes; Arrogance; Anarchism
Mixed message
While Jacque Chirac is punished by the electorate for
his attacks on the working class, the benefit is going
not to the alliance of France's two main revolutionary
groups, but the mainstream left: Peter Manson analyses
why
Action
Weekly Worker's regular activists' diary
Digging for inspiration
Phil Hamilton visits websites established by mining unions
around the world, and finds them a mixed bunch
Leadership still lags behind
the led
On March 20, millions marched around the world to mark
one year of the occupation of Iraq by US-UK forces: Manny
Neira joined demonstrators in London, and was inspired
by the protestors but not the STWC
Candidate demands open borders
In North East London, Respect met to chose candidate Dean
Ryan as their candidate in the GLA elections: and replied
to his CPGB questioners that he would campaign on open
borders: a pledge Respect as a whole failed to make. Tina
Becker reports
Populism or principle
In Barnet and Camden, however, selected Respect GLA candidate
Liz Wheatley evaded a similarly direct question about
workers' wages for workers' representatives put to her
by our reporter Warren James
Assessing Respect
On March 23, the CPGB held an aggregate of its members
and supporters: the main subject of discussion was, unsurprisingly,
the attitude of communists to the Respect coalition
Solidarity squandered
In the third of his series of articles on the miners'
Great Strike, Ian Donovan examines the support the miners
received from other elements of the working class, and
the political opportunities to build on this missed
Opening the second front
When the dockers walked out on unofficial strike in July
1984, for a time the miners seemed to have victory within
their grasp. Alan Stevens, then a union militant in London
docks, recalls the decisive moments
Pursuing the truth
Eddie Ford imagines the unimaginable: a world without
the Weekly Worker...
Sharon boosts islamists
Ian Donovan analyses the politics and repurcussions of
the Israeli assassination of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed
Yassin
