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Summer Offensive

 

 

 

Weekly Worker 608 Thursday January 19 2006


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Letters
SWP beacon; Lesson; Spy hole; Maverick history; Sexist antics; Hate campaign; Preposterous; Centre point; Secular question; No stigma; Sober; Hackney Respect

The SWP bites its lip
The Socialist Workers Party is deeply uneasy about George Galloway's antics in the Big brother house - but it was them who gave him carte blanche to be a free agent in the first place, says Peter Manson

Defend free speech
Abu Hamza and Nick Griffin have more in common than they would like to admit: both are being prosecuted for their views and speeches - rather than their actions. Communists must take a firm stand against the chipping away of our civil liberties, because left critics of the government might be next in line, says Tina Becker

Victims and victimisers
Eddie Ford takes a look at the latest round of hysteria over ‘nonces’ and ‘perverts’ in the educational system

Completing Marx’s project
Communist Party comrades in London recently began a collective study of Beyond ‘Capital’, written by Michael A Lebowitz. Mark Fischer spoke to the comrade in Venezuela, where he currently lives.



Prometheanism and nature
Technological Prometheanism and capitalism’s profit-driven degradation of nature: Jack Conrad puts the case for revolutionary Prometheanism and sustainability

Wanted: a party with a Marxist programme
The January 21 conference on working class political representation called by the RMT - the largest rail union - looks as if it will be a pretty tame affair, says Mark Fischer, who also spoke to RMT activist Greg Tucker about the conference

Festival of Labourism?
The working class movement needs its own republican socialist party, argues Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group

New SA council meets
The first meeting of the Council of Socialist Organisations was held on January 14. The council was set up by the Socialist Alliance at its conference last November. Its aim is to provide a forum for discussion and coordination between SA affiliated organisations, local SAs and the SA executive. Pete Mc Laren reports


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