Weekly Worker 591 Thursday September 8 2005

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Letters
Drug bans; CWI Russia; Mutual ground; Pro-islamic AWL; None the wiser; Catholic heroes; Philosopher; To the people; Hurricane Katrina; Gnostic link; Basic

Sign up for Respect!
The Socialist Workers Party seems to have got itself into a little bit of trouble in its attempts to stage-manage Respect’s forthcoming annual conference, says Mark Fischer

• CPGB draft motions to Respect conference
• If you are a Respect member and want to sign up or suggest amendments to our motions, please email respect@cpgb.org.uk

Reaping the whirlwind
The catastrophe along the southern coast of the US was as much a product of the capitalist system as it was an act of nature, writes Martin Schreader

Victims of criminal neglect, not nature
Paul Greenaway gives the communist perspective of the tragedy - and looks at the position of the Socialist Workers Party, which is far more principled than its response to the 2004 tsunami

A survivor’s story
Lisa Moore tells the story of her cousin Denise - instead of the 'rioting looters' depicted by the bourgeois media, she saw desparate people doing their utmost to help each other

Regime crisis and the new conservatives
Ardeshir Mehrdad and Mehdi Kia, co-editors of Iran Bulletin-Middle East Forum, look at the Islamic Republic’s prospects for survival following the victory of an ultra-conservative in June’s presidential election

Rolling back multiculturalism
Of course multiculturalism is not to 'blame' for the London bombings, as reactionaries like Norman Tebbit suggest. But communists also condemn Tony Blair's plans for more religious schools and increased separation along ethnic and religious lines - instead arguing for voluntary and democratic assimilation from below, says Eddie Ford

Raking the Ashes of English socialism
Lawrence Parker takes a look at cricket - history and present

CLR James

The ‘crime’ of resisting imperialism
Channel 4's documentary The year London blew up about the Provisional IRA's bombing campaign in the 1970s totally ignored the political background to those incidents and said nothing about the motivations of those who carried them out. Therefore we reprint a speech made at the Balcombe Street siege trial by the leader of the unit, Joe O Connell, which shows both the limitations of their programme and that they were far from being mindless fanatics

Communists and transitional forms
A republican socialist party meets the needs of the hour, writes Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group. That is why communists must lead the fight to achieve one

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