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Summer Offensive 2004
The CPGB's annual fundraising drive has got off to a slow
start, reports Tina Becker.
Vote Respect, but fight for socialist
politics
Nick Rogers analyses the forthcoming European and
GLA elections - and says that those who do not advocate
a vote for Respct are wrong.
Letters
Transitional; SWP quandary; Birmingham SA; Respect label;
IWCA; Animal welfare
Yellow opportunists
Despite the fact that the Socialist Workers Party allowed
Charles Kennedy to speak from the platform of the biggest
anti-war demo in British history, the Iraq war does not
feature too prominently on the Liberal Democrats' website
- no wonder if one considers how inconsistent their opposition
to the war was, says Phil Hamilton in this week's
Around the Web
More than an electoral front
Interview with Greg Tucker, an RMT militant and
Respect candidate for the Greater London Authority on
June 10
DWP pay fight needs winning strategy
Ahead of the annual conference of the Public and Commercial
Services Union starting on Monday, June 7, regional organiser
and CPGB member Lee Rock looks at the DWP pay dispute
Aslef barbecued
The antics of the puffed up prima donnas in Aslef's leadership
have the potential to destroy the union, warns Dean
Hopper
An infantile disorder?
This week, the Red Platform of the CPGB looks at Lenin's
pamphlet Leftwing communism - an infantile disorder
- and finds many parallels to the political landscape
today
Closed door manoeuvres
Tina Becker reports on latest developments in the
preparations for the European Social Forum - which is
still hampered by bureaucratic shenanigans, financial
shortcomings, witch-hunts and censorship.
Voting for war criminals
At its congress on May 29-30, the Morning Star's
Communist Party of Britain stuck to its old line of auto-Labourism
for the next general elections - despite opposition from
leading members. Alan Rees reports
A voice for our times
Rosa Luxemburg has a great deal to say for our times,
writes Peter Hudis, co-editor of The Rosa Luxemburg
Reader. In this essay he looks at Luxemburg's insistence
on democracy
Documenter extraordinaire
Jim Gilbert Moody reviews In fact: Michael Grigsby
and the documentary tradition, National Film Theatre,
June 4-25
Defend Abu Hamza's citizenship
Today, an islamic cleric. Tomorrow, progressives and socialists.
No matter how despicable his politics, communists should
never support the censorship of 'suspect' minorities,
argues Ian Donovan
