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Letters
Ireland unity; RePurdiation; CPGB-phobia; Islamophobia;
Simply pointless; Social democracy; Trotsky; Workers'
aid; Kenya victory; Indefatigable; Apology
conference
2005,
November 19-20
- A strange amalgum
Respect’s second annual conference took place over
the weekend of November 19-20. But what is Respect,
asks Peter Manson - a party or coalition? In
fact it is a chimera, a multi-headed beast which is
regularly redefined by its leaders according to needs
and circumstances
- Fundamental right
to migrate
Steven Brooks joined Michael Lavalette in forming
a Respect group on Preston council when he left the
Labour Party earlier this year. He voted in favour of
the two motions calling for the abolition of immigration
controls. Anne Mc Shane spoke to him after the debate
- Gay rights ‘shibboleth’
Was it just an oversight that gay and lesbian rights
did not feature in Respect's election manifestio? Apparently
not, as the debate at conference showed. Peter Manson
reports
- Bizarre, upside-down
politics
Peter Tatchell responds to the implied SWP charge
of racism and islamophobia against him and Outrage
- United democratic
opposition needed
Principled communists and socialists should start working
together in order to combat accustions of islamophobia
and treachery, says Anne Mc Shane
- A dead parrot
- not quite
Non-aligned Respect member Sean Thompson expresses
his fear that the project is being killed by SWP control-freakery
Don’t
dare read this!
Even possession of this article could see you prosecuted,
warns Eddie Ford in his report of the case facing
neo-Nazi revisionist historian David Irving
Rightist
liquidation threatens
Ian Mahoney reviews the SWP’s Pre-conference
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