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Weekly Worker 605 Thursday December 15 2005


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Letters
Sisters; Linkspartei; Antics; Not splitters; Sick fetish; Don't be hasty; Carried away; Masterly; Huff and puff; Population; Witch-hunt victim; Shrill; Equipment; Shame on you; No exception; Aaronovitch

  • Losing the plot
    The latest meeting of Respect Hackney underlined the profound crisis of the comrades in the Socialist Workers Party over their role in Respect - they either ignore oppositional voices or they shout them down. Tina Becker reports
  • Two-ward timid token
    Stan Keable attended the latest meeting of Respect West London - and was surprised by the pessimistic mood of the comrades

One-dimensional Marxism and proposition one
Why does the CPGB accuse the Socialist Workers Party of economism? Jack Conrad explains with a look at the 'where we stand column' in Socialist Worker and the comrades' attitude to nature, ecology and global warming

Chávez and the AWL
Nick Rogers
replies to Paul Hampton from the Alliance of Workers' Liberty

 

 

Booze and moral panics
How should communists view the new '24-hour-drinking'-legislation? Eddie Ford says that alcohol and drugs are class questions

Optimism and escape
Jeremy Butler
reviews The lion, the witch and the wardrobe, which has led to the opening of a new front in the war of words between christianity and its critics

 

We are better than them!
Peter Manson
reports from last Saturday's 'international peace confernce' in London, which was more of a rally - and gave no answers as to what the anti-war movement should be doing next

 

Building the new
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group looks at the newly established Socialist Alliance


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