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| Last week we reported that
both our motions to the forthcoming Respect conference
had been refused because of a technical hitch. On
October 26, we received a communication, from Respect
office, informing us that the conference arrangements
committee will re-examine this matter. Watch this
space. |
Letters
British-Irish; Playboy left; Consensus; Child's right;
Islamic Relief; Combat or not?; Dream; Unequal; Keep the
ban; Welsh equality; Abolish prison; Marxism online
'Revolutionaries'
endorse pensions sell-out
Members of the Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers
Party have voted to surrender to the government's demand
that new workers will have to work until 65. Peter
Manson and Tony Reay (PCSU DWP London regional
secretary, personal capacity) report
Little controversy, less principle
You will need a big cup of coffee (or two) to get through
the 68 resolutions going forward to the November 19-20
Respect annual conference. But working your way through
the dozens of embarrassingly boring motions is worthwhile,
because there are quite a few gems amongst them - good
and bad. Tina Becker takes a closer look
Galloway:
‘Put up or shut up time’
The US Senate diverts from their country's imperialist
crimes. Peter Manson reports
Alienation and identity
Emily Bransom reviews Navid Akhtar's Young,
angry and muslim (Channel Four, October 24)
Working
class unity - not multiculturalism
The rioting that broke out in the Lozells area of Birmingham
over the weekend of October 22-23 offers a disturbing
insight into the fragmented nature of many working class
communities in this country - and the pathetically inadequate
response of the left. Eddie Ford reports
Organising
from below
Farooq
Tariq, general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan,
responds to our request for information on the relief
efforts of the left, and comments on the religious charity,
Islamic Relief, favoured by the Socialist Workers Party
Tug
of war for mantle of respectable republicanism
The south of Ireland is experiencing a renaissance in constitutional
nationalism, says Anne Mc Shane
Arise - the new Socialist Alliance
Steve Freeman, a member of the committee that has
organised the November 12 conference to relaunch the SA,
calls for both continuity and change in the fight for
socialist unity
What kind of new party do we need?
There is a broad consensus on the left outside Labour
that a new party of our class is needed. But what sort
of politics should it have? Here, Dave Parks -
an activist in the Socialist Alliance until its dissolution
earlier this year - warns against projecting the need
for a revolutionary party as an ultimatum to the movement
