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Learning lessons
The slow pace of this year's Summer Offensive reflects
the organisational and political meltdown of the wider
left - and the problems our own organisation has been
going through, says Ian Mahoney
Letters
Gay plot; Beenie Man; Al-Qaradawi; In limbo; Change record;
Not rejected; Poverty; Proposal; Something better
Ken pays the piper and now calls the
tune
Should we hand over the European Social Forum opening
ceremony to London's mayor Livingstone? Tina Becker
thinks not
Making a start
Oliur Rahman is Respect's first councillor elected
under its own name. He spoke to Peter Manson about
the successful campaign and how he will try to become
a different kind of councillor: accountable to those who
elected him
Money is the name of the game
The whole transitory saga of Sven Eriksson will be gone
in a short while, thinks Patrick Presland. The
gigantic cash nexus we call football will remain
Road to nowhere
Phil Hamilton reviews Ralph Nader's website - and
finds it wanting, just like the candidate's politics
Resolutions and token strikes
The PCSU's ballot for a one-day strike action against
the government's threat to axe over 100,000 jobs shows
that the union has no serious strategy capable of defeating
the New Labour assault, says Peter Manson
Economism and the necessity of
programme
Jack Conrad argues that the left is crippled by
its flattery of economic struggles - and the constant
downplaying of the primacy of the political
Imperialism lives on
In the second of a short series of articles, Mike Macnair
examines the role of the state in the global order
and looks at alternatives to the 'imperialism of free
trade' theory
Miners' long road to defeat
Dave Douglass is impressed by the Socialist Party's
Ken Smith's new book, A civil war without guns - 20
years on
Obituary: Josh Heuchan - red salute
Marcus Strom says goodbye to Josh, who was an avid
reader and financial supporter of the Weekly Worker
