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Letters
Apologist for opportunism; Kosova and self-determination;
Iraq crucial; Russia 1905 and anarchists; Pro-immigrant;
AWL and Galloway; Livingstone and Qaradawl; Draft programme
For a republican
Socialist Alliance
How
should we fight for unity, as the SWP attempts at last
to formally close down the Socialist Alliance? Dave
Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group calls
for the SA to be defended
Also on the Socialist Alliance:
Too few to
be divided
At long last, after three months of technical difficulties,
the Socialist Unity Network website is back up and running,
reports Salman Shaheen
Giving leadership
to the movement

Around
50 representatives from across Europe met over the weekend
of January 15-16 in Brussels to discuss the future of
the European Social Forum. The debate on left unity beyond
the ESF in particular revealed increasing tensions, reports
Tina Becker. Interestingly, the Socialist
Workers Party was nowhere to be seen
Other reports on the January 15-16 meeting:
Boycott imperialist
elections
A Statement of the Federation of Workers’
Councils and Unions in Iraq
For independent unions
in Iraq
An urgent appeal for financial support for an upcoming
workers’ conference in Baghdad
Anti-war fightback
and the Blair-Brown leadership battle
Labour
party activist Graham Bash examines the
state of Labour Against The War, the leadership wrangling
between Brown and Blair, and calls on communists and socialists
to join and fight within the Labour Party
Mutual admiration
Hitler
wanted to emulate the British empire; the British ruling
class welcomed Hitler as a blunt instrument to destroy
the communist menace. Eddie Ford looks
back at the bourgeousie's initial approach to the swastika
and reflects on the recent brouhaha caused by Harry Windsor's
suspect fashion sense
Food for thought
Jack Conrad reviews Kay Adshead's Bites,
now showing at the Bush Theatre in London
Two vie to replace
Prentis
Alan Stevens reports on the plight
of the Unison left to overthrow career bureaucract Dave
Prentis in the upcoming leadership elections