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Respect impact; Respect omission; Thank god; In denial;
Respect Wales; Get real; Disgraceful; Child victims; Free
thinking; Conspiracy; Fighting as usual
Destroying Fallujah city cannot
bring democracy
Reconstruction must be run by and for the people, argues
Paul Greenaway
From
the picket line
Bev Laidlaw is Yorkshire and Humber regional assistant
secretary for the Public and Commercial Services Union
and chair of its Sheffield branch. She spoke to Peter
Manson about the November 5 national civil service strike
against Gordon Brown’s 100,000 job cuts
Women’s ‘active role’
and the veil
Yassmine Mather of the Iran Bulletin
and Middle East Forum takes exception to the SWP's
Elaine Heffernan's article in the latest Socialist
Worker
Haunted by the past
The SWP seems to have dropped its idiotic claim that abortion
is “not an issue”. With a double-page spread
in last week’s Socialist Worker the comrades
are now trying to cover their left flank - and, says Tina
Becker, to justify why at Respect conference they
voted down a motion for a campaign to make a woman’s
right to choose a reality
- Feminism in free fall
Ben Lewis attended the November 6 'Fem04' conference
on women's rights in Sheffield - and found a palpable
absence of any socialist or working class agenda
Opposition splinters before
arrogant SWP
The latest meeting of the Socialist Alliance executive
underlines the sectarian trajectory of the SWP. Mark
Fischer reports
- See you in court?
The SWP's John Rees has threatened the Socialist
Unity Network with libel action, reports Mark Fischer
- because they published a letter by Liz Davies explaining
why she resigned from the SA
Worries,
tensions and opening the floodgates
This year’s first Pre-conference Bulletin of
the Socialist Workers Party makes interesting reading
- it shows that there are some real differences over Respect,
says Tina Becker
Control the bureaucrats
What are the lessons of Lenin’s 1917 pamphlet State
and revolution? Not the need for a ‘commune state’,
argues Mike Macnair, but the need for representatives
to be made accountable
Referendum debacle
Steve Cooke explains why the vast majority of people
in the north of England have rejected the government's
proposal for regional assemblies - and argues for real
democracy from below instead
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