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Weekly Worker 567 Thursday March 10 2005
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Letters
2am knock; Lenin's alliance; Babbling; Pro-life; Miners'
strike; Simple message; Wrong name; No censorship
Aussie SA in trouble
Marcus Larsen reports from the Socialist Alliance
in Australia, which seems to be going the same way as
the SA in Britain
 From
anti-capitalism to serving capitalism
The 6th Congress of Rifondazione Comunista, held in Venice
from March 3-6, was a strange affair, report Tina Becker
and Mark Fischer. The appalling decision to
join with Romano Prodi’s Olive Tree coalition and
(assuming victory in the 2006 general election) follow
him into government had already been made at branch and
regional level. Still, there were some very heated debates
at congress, with a sizeable minority of comrades strongly
critical of this turn, which has gone hand in hand with
an attempt to squeeze the democratic space open to the
party opposition. Clearly, this centrist organisation
is moving to the right. This is not just bad news for
the Italian working class - the European left will suffer
too
- The opposition
The positions of the four oppositional factions, including
interviews with some of their leading representatives
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What ‘controls’
really mean
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It’s quite nice today, George
Tony Cliff once referred scathingly to socialists
who prefer to chat about the weather rather than tackle
ruling class ideas head on. With this in mind, David
Isaacson notes the SWP’s silence over George
Galloway’s recent article on ‘controlled immigration’
Nationalist rat deserts sinking
opportunist ship
Gregor Gall has left the Socialist Worker platform
of the Scottish Socialist Party. We reprint his criticism
of the SWP - with an introduction by Jack Conrad,
who in turn criticises Gall's nationalism
 Fighting
for party
Peter Manson reports from last week's conference
of Critique
SWP tails red nose establishment
Much of the left buys into charity-mongering, crticises
Eddie Ford
What next for SADP?
We need a new socialist alliance, argues Dave Craig
of the Revolutionary Democratic Group - but one based
on the fight for a democratic republic and a new workers’
party
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