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Squeeze
it out
Howard Roake warns that we might not meet our £30,000
target - all readers, supporters and CPGB members need
to seriously up the pace if we are not to fail.
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Letters
New Bund; Libellous; Gnostic link; Respect;
Crass; G8 policing; Child abuse; Terror statement; Troops
out; Alternative; Thanks
Mission accomplished
Thanks to their front men Bob Geldof and Bono, Tony
Blair and Gordon Brown managed to capture or neutralise
the Make Poverty History bandwagon. But there remains
deep disenchantment, argues Eddie Ford
The ‘C’ word
Why won't the Socialist Workers Party condemn the terrorist
attacks in any of their statements
on last week's London bombing? Ian Mahoney investigates
Terrorism and the SWP Janus
Are the London bombers and al Qa’eda potential allies
in the struggle against imperialism, or reactionary enemies
of the working class? Mike Macnair gives a communist
view
Worlds
apart
Lawrence Parker reviews Steven Spielbergs War
of the worlds
Workhouse of nations
US socialist Martin Schreader criticises George
W Bush’s reform of immigration policy
No short cuts
Tokenising the ex-leaders of a workers’ struggle
in one small part of Britain is no way to rebuild working
class organisation, argues Alan Stevens
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| Steven Rose at Marxism 2005 |
Ignorant and proud
There was a slightly unreal atmosphere around this year’s
Marxism, the annual school of the Socialist Workers Party.
Respect haunted the proceedings, reports Mark Fischer,
yet was practically invisible both in terms of the formal
agenda and on the stalls
-
Size
ain’t everything …
In his session on 'Revolution in the 21st century'
Chris Harman tried to make a rather feeble connection
between “the revolutionary party" and the
explicitly non-revolutionary formation Respect - mainly
to convince his own party comrades, says
Tina Becker
- Fighter for women’s
rights?
There was an angry response when the CPGB's Anne
Mc Shane reminded Lindsey German in the meeting
on ‘The history of women’s liberation’
about the SWP's lack of fighting for a woman's right
to choose in Respect
- Demagogic lies
The Sunday morning Marxism session, ‘Strategy and
tactics in the anti-imperialist movement’, saw
a ferocious, coordinated attack on the CPGB and Weekly
Worker, led by senior SWP members, repors Peter Manson
-
Reasons
to engage
Hillel Ticktin (editor Critique) explained
'Why saying no to war and poverty is not enough - we
need a Marxist party'
- Bolshevik flexibility
John Bride and Mike Macnair opened up
an interesting debate on Respect and the role of communists
within it
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