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Letters
Vote Lucy; Vote Liz; Abortion row; CPGB opportunism; Responsible sex; Small-minded; Undemocratic; Extremely rightwing; Build CPGB; Bread and butter; US left; Editorial cuts
Wilful misunderstanding
This week, Around the Web visits the websites of the anti-abortionists. Phil Hamilton discovers that whatever moral principles they believe they are defending, honesty is not one of them.
George and the right to choose
With apologies to the Twilight Zone, Manny Neira invites you to take a journey into the imagination: what if George had a real reason to consult his conscience over abortion?
Strengths, flaws, contradictions
Ian Donovan reviews George Galloway's book I'm not the only one and finds it an "interesting, illuminating, and at times surprising read". Comrade Donovan provides an insight into the book which provides an insight into the man, and his politics.
Fears of middle America
Channel 4 recently showed the documentary Aileen: the life and death of a serial killer. Jem Jones found it a compelling story of a woman experiencing the extremes of objectification and alienation.
Battling for control
Over recent years 'pro-lifers' have not so much attacked a woman's right to choose directly: they have adopted
salami tactics. Eddie Ford revisits the fight for safe abortions, the history of counterattacks, and questions Respect's significant silence on this vital issue.
How to build the CPGB - and how not to
In this week's seeing red, Manny Neira expands on the Red Platform's call for renewed emphasis on individual recruitment and party building, and recounts his own experiences joining the CPGB.
Imperialism out of Iraq!
Recent revelations about the treatment of Iraqi prisoners by US-UK occupation forces reveal what communists always knew: the invasion of Iraq was not undertaken to liberate but to oppress. Ian Donovan analyses the situation, and wonders if the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, who are hesitating to call for the withdrawal of troops, will learn the lessons.
Conference shambles
Mark Fischer reports on the conference of the Fire Brigades Union, which saw Andy Gilchrist circumventing the union's democracy. Given the real chance that the union might have voted for disaffiliation from Labour, he examines this question in Stay or go?, and reports too on the Fringe speeches of Tommy Sheridan and George Galloway.
Fighting capacity
Peter Manson welcomes the column of the Red Platform in the Weekly Worker as evidence of the CPGB's committment to democratic debate, but argues that they are wrong in their analysis of Respect, and consequently their proposed tactics.
Priveliged information
The Socialist Workers Party continue to excercise their suffocating control freakery over arrangements for the London European Social Forum. Tina Becker reports on the latest paranoid twist: basic information now being given out on a strictly need to know basis. We also bring you the latest ESF diary, and the exciting news that during the ESF we will be publishing every day, and relaunching the Daily Worker. Help us achieve this by supporting our Relaunch appeal.
