Letters
Socialising drugs; Criminalised; Natural justice; Climate
change; Respect Wales; CPGB tentacle; One nation; Iran
and Israel; Defeatist; For secularism; Abortion; Women's
control; Pissing around; Kenya killings; Pakistan appeal
Turmoil
over pensions
The SWP has disciplined two of their leading members
on the executive of the Public and Commercial Services
Union, who voted for the government's plan on pensions.
That disciplinary action was long overdue, says Lee
Rock (national secretary, PCSU Socialist Caucus),
but why won't the SWP criticise PCSU general secretary
Mark Serwotka?
Tentative
steps to unity
Around 300 people attended the first congress of the
European Left Party in Athens, October 29-30. The congress
did not achieve much in terms of political clarity -
but undoubtedly it was an advance in the cooperation
of the left across Europe. Tina Becker reports
- Realigning the left
If the European Left Party does nothing else but bring
to an end the multiplicity of ineffective umbrella
organisations that exist on the European left, it
will have achieved something. Let us look at a few
of them.
- Unification
process
Interview with Haris Golemis, a member of the central
political committee of the Greek party Synaspismos
(Coalition of the Left and Movements of Ecology)
- Respect: Britain
out of the EU?
Leading SWP member Chris Bambery told participants
at the congress that Respect supports Britain's withdrawal
from the European Union
Noam Chomsky and the human revolution
Mark Fischer spoke to Chris Knight, a scientist
specialising in human origins. His main current interest
lies in working out how human language may have evolved.
This has led him to clash with Noam Chomsky
Anti-working class control-freakery
Eddie Ford takes a closer look at Tony Blair's
'respect' agenda
Deliberate mistake?
Why did Iran's newly elected president demand that "Israel
should be wiped off the map"? Yassamine Mather
(Critique editorial board) analyses the situation
Support
working class relief
Ted Crawford takes another look at progressive
and working class organisations working in Pakistan
after the devastating earthquake
Long
road to social democracy
Against the backdrop of US charges against Sean Garland
of the Workers Party, Liam O Ruairc, a leading
member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, looks
at the demise of Official republicanism
The SA and the party question
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
looks forward to the November 12 conference and argues
against the CPGB call for a Marxist party as an immediate
priority
