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Weekly Worker 572 Thursday April 14 2005
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James Bull reports from the annual conference of
the National Union of Students, which saw the SWP walk
out when Iraqi communist Houzan Mahmood criticised political
Islam
Vote SSP -
critically
Alan Fox looks at the Scottish Socialist Party’s
general electionchallenge and urges support,
even though it espouses nationalism and a reformist socialism
Nationalists fall out
Last week's Weekly Worker article sparked an illuminating
debate in the SSP. Peter Manson reports
 Big
questions and micro-splits
Mike Macnair reports from the latest gatherings
of the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform - and argues
for a Marxist party instead
Another failed unity
project
The United Socialist Party, formed out of discussions
between representatives of the sacked Merseyside dockers
and the 47 ex- Labour
councillors, has just split. In this article Iain
Hunter, the USP organiser until his resignation
last week, describes the formation of the party and
events leading to his departure
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So the obvious message is that we need more donations to the
fighting fund. And that is what I am asking for. Looking at
the compromised, fragmented and petty-minded state of left politics
in Britain, Europe - and the whole world, for that matter -
it is obvious that there is a crying need for a genuine Communist
Party. A Marxist party, explicitly based on a revolutionary
programme; a disciplined party in which minorities unite with
majorities in common actions; a democratic party which encourages
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Robbie Rix
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