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Letters
Patronising bull; Murky waters; Living wage; Mugabe and
ISO; Imperialism; Free trade; Marx's failure; Numbers
game; Price rise; It can't hurt; Ray's legacy
Left populism and its discontents
Tensions are growing in the Socialist Workers Party -
of course, it is all carefully hidden away from the organisation’s
rank and file. SW Kenning reports
Drawing together the threads
The ‘Call of the Assembly of Social Movements’
will be discussed and finalised during the October 15-17
European Social Forum in London. The Assembly of Social
Movements has, reports Tina Becker, increasingly
taken on a life of its own
Dishonest attempt to derail pro-choice
initiative
Both the Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Action
are trying to stop a new pro-abortion campaign from even
being launched, warns Anne McShane
Stopping
short
Phil Hamilton takes a look at the website of the
Green Party of the USA
No to state bans
The increased electoral success of the British National
Party has been met with threats by the home office to
bar members of the BNP from being employed as civil servants.
But, reports Tina Becker, the recent federal elections
in Germany show that a campaign to illegitimatise and
even ban the rightwing Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands
has backfired badly - the NPD for the first time in decades
now has representation in a state parliament
Aslef: Reclaim the union
Ahead of the latest Aslef conference, Dean Hooper
reports on the damaging factional infighting
- Needed: a party of the left
John Bloom is the Respect candidate for the
Hartlepool parliamentary by-election on September 30.
He spoke to Peter Manson
- Abortion aberration
At a Respect meeting in Teeside, candidate John Bloom
predicted that “one day people will come to regard
abortion as a holocaust”. Steve Cooke reports.
Partners in crime
In his regular column 'Labour Left View' Graham Bash
this week discusses the forthcoming Labour Party conference
Brother,
can you spare a dime?
Martin Schreader looks at the impact of the economy
on the US elections
Imperialism and method
Mike Macnair takes up the
debate: he takes a closer look at Lenin's and Bukharin's
methods and responds to the AWL's Paul Hampton
Revolt of reactionaries
Eddie Ford reports on the protests against the
ban on foxhunting and argues that we should take back
the countryside from the capitalist farmers and aristos
