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Weekly Worker 565 Thursday February 24 2005
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Letters
Military support; Betrayal; Sub-imperialist?;
STWC veto; Left unity; SWP and censorship; Horror and
disgust; Carry on, Ken; Restore Stalingrad; Parody
Galloway joins in the numbers
game
 The
SWP voted down the CPGB’s principled call for the
scrapping of all immigration controls at the October conference
of Respect. Now we can see the result, writes Tina
Becker. George Galloway is free to ape the populist
calls of the Tories and Labour government for ‘controlled
immigration’
Tawdry attractions
 Should
Andrew Murray join the SWP? The idea is not as weird as
it sounds, thinks Alan Rees
Communists and alliances
Mary Godwin reports on the February 19-20 CPGB
weekend school
Sinn Fein rides the
storm
 The
last month has seen the build-up of a joint propaganda
offensive conducted by the British and Irish governments
against Sinn Féin, amidst allegations regarding
the recent Belfast Northern Bank heist. But a peace settlement
forged in the interests of the British and Irish ruling
classes would not be in the interests of workers, argues
Peter Manson
Their
countryside and ours
 February
18th marked the day fox hunting with hounds was banned
in the United Kingdom, but with the bourgeosie set to
rebel against the ruling the controversy is far from over.
Eddie Ford reflects on the bill and the
sort of countryside communists actively fight for.
Trotting out time-honoured
falsehoods
Ted North reviews Roy Bainton's A
brief history of 1917: Russia’s year of revolution
Free Giuliana
 Alan
Fox reports on the tragic kidnap of Comunista
Rifondazione journalist Giuliana Sgrena in Iraq
We want rights
An appeal by the Organisation of Women’s
Freedom in Iraq
Political fight
to defend pensions
The TUC's 'Day of action' to defend pensions
brought demonstrations from 5 public sector unions up
and down the country. But as the government places pension
rights under threat, the TUC bureaucracy is more interested
in Labour's re-election than a principled fight, reveals
Alan Stevens
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