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Respect and Europe
Marcus Ström argues for a positive, socialist
programme for Europe.
Letters
Disrespect; Party power; Stalinist asylum; Boneheads;
Housing crash
Boost to action
Lee Rock reports and analyses developments in the
continuing PCSU strike, which saw up to 100,000 members
of the Public and Commercial Services Union walked out
on another 48-hour strike over April 13-14.
Action
Weekly Worker's regular activists' diary
Comprehensive but evasive
Phil Hamilton visits the web site of the National
Union of Teachers, and finds it ducking some questions.
Communists launch collective
Stan Keable, communist and esperantist, reports
from the 6th All-America Esperanto Congress in Havana
(English and Esperanto/anglan kaj esperanto)
Victory to the Iraqi people
The war of liberation against the occupation has begun,
writes Ian Donovan
Not hiding his views
The Socialist Alliance’s only elected councillor,
SWP member Michael Lavalette, heads the Respect
list for the European elections in the North West constituency.
He spoke to Peter Manson
For political revolution within
Respect!
Comrade Marcus Ström feels that Respect candidates
would not support republicanism, open borders, and workers’
representation on a worker’s wage without a “political
revolution within Respect”. Manny Neira argues
that this is why we must continue to demand that they
do!
Beleaguered in Wales
Cameron Richards reports that Forward Wales have
joined the list of organisations spurning alliances with
Respect. There is no shortage of soft left groups in Wales:
will Respect now support them, or better still support
socialism?
Terrorism, alliances and class
independence
Are the Madrid bombers and al Qa’eda potential allies
in the struggle against imperialism or reactionary enemies
of the working class? Mike Macnair gives a communist
view
Fighting for assimilation
Some see multiculturalism as equivalent to anti-racism:
including comrades in the Socialist Workers Party. Eddie
Ford argues that it is an essentially bourgeois ideology,
and presents a communist analysis.
Why Trevor is far right
Trevor Phillips, ally of the old Communist Party, is now
calling for an assertion of a "core of Britishness".
Dave Osler examines the racist rhetoric of third
way politicians, and demands a clear socialist anti-racist,
open borders policy.
ESF democracy vital
Tina Becker draws political lessons from the organisation
problems surrounding this year's London ESF, and argues
that democracy and transparency are not merely principled
demands, but effective strategies.
