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party to donate urgently to achieve this year's Summer Offensive
target - £30,000
Letters
North Birmingham; LRC and Respect; Paint it red; Abortion;
EPSR; Obsession; Green relevance; Hijab; Manchester picket;
No wall; Aslef debacle; SPGB; Michael Moore; Draft programme;
Laughable; Inspirational
Fight for a red planet
Eddie Ford takes issue with deep ecology, biocentrism,
Giain consciousness and eco-theology
Down the plughole?
Phil Hamilton wonders how the website of the European
Social Forum could have ended up costing a rumoured £40,000
Livingstone pulls the strings
London’s mayor has personally invited sheikh Yusuf
al-Qaradawi to speak at the European Social Forum, reports
Tina Becker, and he continues to make other demands
Reclaiming Labour dominates the
debate
Steve Cooke reports from this year's Durham Miners
Gala, which took place on July 10
Marxism 2004
SWP in trouble
It is unlikely that the SWP’s central committee will
be very happy with Marxism 2004. Registrations and overall
attendance was down significantly - by about 50% - to
around 2,500. Our team reports on some of the key sessions
- Change on SSP
SWP comrades were surprisingly critical of the nationalism
of the Scottish Socialist Party - are they toying with
the idea of extending Respect further north?, asks Ted
Fraser
- White working class
Leading SWP members Chris Bambery and Charlie Kimber
stressed the need to fight for the "white working
class", reports Anne McShane, while Cerys
Dowling is embarrassed about Chris Bambery's hysteric
chants of "Let's hear it for the SWP!"
- Private matters,
state affairs
Two meetings dealt with the question of 'socialists
and religion'. While SWP comrades were at pains to show
the Bolsheviks' positive attitude towards the Muslim
communities in 1917, the comrades' confusion about the
principle of secularism was all too apparent, report
Sean Powell and Tina Becker
- Iraq: imperialism and
the politics of resistance
Peter Manson reports on a very one-sided meeting,
in which leading SWP member Alex Callinicos expressed
his support for "the resistance", "whatever
its political form, whatever its banner"
- Fringe success
Ted Fraser reports on the CPGB's four fringe
meetings during this year's Marxism
A Marxist party without deformations
At the CPGB’s Marxism 2004 fringe, Hillel Ticktin,
editor of Critique, argued that material conditions
have opened up wide opportunities for the left and new
organisational possibilities
Powerful but flawed
Steve Cooke reviews Michael Moore's film 'Fahrenheit
9/11' and finds him wanting in one crucial aspect: Moore
criticises Bush very well, but has got no programme for
a political alternative
Political fightback needed
Peter Manson warns that Gordon Brown's spending review
presents a real threat to workers in Britain
New Labour dented
Alan Stevens reports on the GMB's financial snub
to the Labour government
Not fit to govern
Writing in a personal capacity, Dave Craig of the
Revolutionary Democratic Group argues that Respect is
a barrier to the formation of a republican socialist party
