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Build Respect
Marcus Ström calls for all to work as partisans
and with energy to build Respect: and to reflect our positive
engagement in the Weekly Worker
Letters
Vote Respect?; Right move; Bickering; Shove Respect; Auto-labourism;
Demoralisation; Green Recruit; Patience
Winning strategy needed
Lee Rock discusses PCSU strike action and highlights
the lack of strategy on the part of the union's leadership
Action
Weekly Worker's regular activists' diary
Migrant horror stories
Phil Hamilton reads the foam-flecked, xenophobic
rants passing for analysis of the issue of migration on
the websites of the tabloids: the Daily Mail, the
Daily Express, the Daily Star, the Daily
Mirror, and, of course, The Sun.
Forgive and forget?
What should the attitude of militants to the strikebreakers
of 1984-85? Dave Douglass, branch secretary of
Hatfield Main National Union of Mineworkers, looks at
the whole range of emotional, tactical, principled and
opportunistic responses
No unconditional vote
for Respect!
An argument against the decision of the March 21 aggregate
of the CPGB drafted by Manny Neira and supported
by fellow members Peter Grant, Jem Jones,
Ben Lewis, David Moran and Cameron Richards
Communist tactics, not sectarian
subjectivism
An opposing the artcie "No unconditional vote for
Respect!" in this same issue of the Weekly Worker,
and defending the decision of the March 21 aggregate of
the CPGB, by Ian Donovan
British socialism at crossroads
Why does the left in England lag behind, compared to the
achievements of the Scottish Socialist Party? SSP member
Nick Rogers examines the reasons and discusses
the prospects for Respect
Defend the Socialist Alliance
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
argues that the Socialist Alliance should not be given
up as dead while its Democratic Platform fights on, and
reports their latest meeting of April 3
Respect meeting reports
Mike Macnair reports a shambolic start for Respect
in Oxford; after a meeting of Respect in Cardiff, Ethan
Grech is reminded of Tony Cliff's advice "never
lie to the class"; Dave Spencer reports on
a meeting of Coventary Respect and contrasts democracy
with "old fashioned deals in smoke-filled rooms";
Dave Landau wonders if George Galloway's intervention
in a Respect meeting in Redbridge and Havering may be
uncomfortably "politically advanced" for the
SWP; and Ian Donovan attended an interesting Respect
meeting in Willesden, but urges Respect to go beyond its
thumbnail "emergency programme"
Flesh and blood
Jem Jones watched Mel Gibson's controversial "The
passion of the christ", and found it not an easy
film to watch, and not without its faults, but with themes
to contemplate
No respect for borders
Eddie Ford rips apart the "reactionary consensus"
about migration, and calls for a revolutionary solution
