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Letters
George and abortion; Respect equality; Respect democracy;
Outstanding; Pit amnesia
Dead in the water
Marcus Ström reports on the April 24 meeting
of the rump Socialist Alliance executive.
It is a woman's right to choose
Respect's founding declaration sounds good, but rather
skirts the issues: in view of George Galloway's anti-choice
politics, and his loud suport from the MAB, Marcus
Ström argues that details matter.
Serving notice
Phil Hamilton visits the unofficial, oppositionist site
'True Aslef'.
For open borders and a workers'
wage
Anas Altikriti stepped down as president of the
Muslim
Association of Britain in order to stand as a Respect
candidate in
Yorkshire and Humberside, where he tops the list for the
unity
coalition. He spoke to Peter Manson.
Beat the Tories
Camden Labour councillor Lucy Anderson will be
contesting the
Tory-held London assembly constituency of Camden and Barnet
on
June 10. Justifying Respect’s decision to stand against
her, the
SWP’s Rob Hoveman called comrade Anderson a “Blairite”
(Weekly Worker February 26). Mark Fischer spoke
to her
Fifteen to twenty-five
As 10 nations prepare to join the EU on May 1, Jack
Conrad lays out a plan for a genuinely democratic,
republican United States of Europe.
Their Europe or ours
Tina Becker reports on the European Social Forum's
initiative to produce a European charter as an
answer to the proposed EU constitution. She interviews
Franco Russo of Rifondazione Comunista, active in the
campaign for a democratic, alternative EU.
Red Platform founded
CPGB members Manny Neira and Cameron Richards
declare the founding of a new platform, opposed to unconditional
electoral support for Respect, for rejoining the the SADP,
defending party democracy, and calling for the building
of the CPGB.
Critical support for Respect
confirmed by members
On April 24, the CPGB held a member's aggregate meeting.
This supported the leadership's call for critical electoral
support for the Respect coalition, but not without the
opposition of a minority arguing that conditions should
be applied, and no support given to MAB members. Mary
Godwin reports a lively democratic debate.
Assessing Iraq and mapping out our
tasks
Ian Donovan and Mike Macnair present rival
theses on the situation in occupied Iraq, and the tasks
facing communists.
Give censorship the red card
'Big' Ron Atkinson's recent description of Marcel
Desailly as a 'thick nigger" was certainly offensive,
but Eddie Ford reasserts the demand for freedom
of speech, and freedom from censorship.
