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Letters
No Satellite; Slate Vote; Shopping List; SWP Machine
One more dead end
Socialist Alliance member Charlie Pottins
is circulating this departure letter, which holds out
hope for the thoroughly undemocratic United Socialist
Party
Rumours and Leadership
Crisis
Sex scandals, factional manouvering and political
dishonesty. Jonathon Drake reflects on
the resignation of Scottish Socialist Party leader Tommy
Sheridan
Secularism, atheism
and Bolshevik lessons
How must communists address the question of religion?
Lessons can be drawn from Lenin's approach, argues Jack
Conrad
Turning unfortunate
necessities into virtues
Mary Godwin reports on a recent CPGB
school held in London addressing the nature of the Soviet
Union
Call for democracy
Hot on the heels of his diplomatically worded critique
of the Socialist Workers Party’s intervention in
Respect, veteran SWP leader John Molyneux
has now turned his attention to the organisation’s
own regime and culture. In this contribution to the Pre-conference
Bulletin No2, comrade Molyneux exposes the intolerance
and monolithism of the leadership and calls for far-reaching
cultural change
Autonomy, separatism
and women’s liberation
Communists link every battle for democracy within capitalist
society to the working class and its task to free itself.
This is not to narrow the fight for women's liberation,
but to raise this struggle to a higher level, argues Mark
Fischer
Limiting the Fight
Anne Mcshane reports on the November
1 meeting of the Abortion Pro-Choice Campaign, and argues
for a working class perspective
Limits of national
liberation
Eddie Ford reflects on the life of Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat
Shattered Fallujah
now faced typhoid epidemic
With resistance growing, hostages dead and a crippling
typhoid epidemic developing in Fallujah, Iraq is now a
spiralling catastrophe for its imperialist occupiers.
Alan Stevens reports on recent events.
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