Weekly Worker 580 Thursday June 9 2005

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Solidarity, not charity
Howard Roake explains how money raised during the Summer Offensive will help to make the case for communist answers at the G8 protests in Edinburgh

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Letters
AWL and Iraq; School student; Reactionary 'no'; Pedagogic; IBT principles; Republicanism; Competition; Degradation; Drivel; SWP liquidation; Fenland advice; Past battles; Normal man

Debating the dynamics of Respect
Mary Godwin reports from the latest CPGB members' aggregate, which discussed the Summer Offensive and the liquidationist trajectory of the SWP leadership

Mass action to defeat Mugabe
Thousands of “illegal buildings” have been destroyed by the Zanu PF regime in Zimbabwe, and tens of thousands made homeless. Munyaradzi Gwisai, leading member of the International Socialist Organisation (sister organisation of the Socialist Workers Party), gives the background to this assault and calls for a united fightback. Comrade Gwisai is the former Movement for Democratic Change MP for Highfield, Harare, and was elected on a revolutionary platform

Give us our referendum now
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group calls for a democratic and socialist approach to the EU, its currency and its constitution

Alienation personified
Michael Jackson obviously needs treatment, not punishment. His trial tells us a lot about today's alienated society, argues Eddie Ford

 

Smears and innuendoes
Leading members of the Scottish Socialist Party are yet again attacking the Weekly Worker - this time for feeding members' email addresses to the bourgeois media. Such absurd lies tell you a lot about the party's difficulties, argues Weekly Worker editor Peter Manson

• Opportunities and problems
  Emily Bransom reports from the Respect post-election rally in Manchester
• Open letter to Oliur Rahman
  Oliur Rahman, Respect’s first elected councillor, writes in Socialist Worker’s Respect supplement (June 4) that electoral advance has put pressure on the local Labour Party. In Tower Hamlets, it is “going through difficult days” and a local paper even reports that “seven Labour councillors are planning to defect to Respect”. Mark Fischer argues that communists have a number of proven mechanisms that can flush out opportunist careerists

Representing our lives
The sceptical NUM branch secretary Dave Douglass is blown away by Billy Elliott, the musical

 

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