Letters
Jack does art; Dreary dogma; Wide of the Marx; Male
out; Damned shame; Thirsty work; Hero's farewell;
In the balance; SPGB ist right; Life goes on
‘Marxists’
for another Labour Party
The March 19 launch of the Socialist Party’s
Campaign for a New Workers’ Party went according
to plan, writes Peter Manson. The 450 comrades
who signed up to its founding declaration overwhelmingly
voted for the SP’s plans for a Labour Party mark
two.
Fight
for state power
Students and youth in France are protesting against
the government’s attempts to impose its ‘first employment
contract’ (CPE) on young workers, which would deprive
them of employment rights for the first two years.
Emile Fabrol of the communist journal La
Lettre de Prométhée looks at the situation thrown
up by the current mass protests.
Martin Smith and his telephone
expulsion
As the latest case shows, any member who dares to
question the Socialist Workers' Party’s political
trajectory faces expulsion by telephone. Martin Smith’s
regime is a disgrace and discredits the left in general,
writes SW Kenning
My enemy's enemy
Alan Stevens reviews George Galloway's new pamphlet
'Target Iran' - and is not impressed by its one-sidedness
Political
strategy needed
The National Union of Students holds its three-day
annual conference starting on Tuesday March 28. Dave
Isaacson, a delegate from Leeds Metropolitan University
student union, looks at the left, NUS and student
politics
New Labour sleaze merchants
Capitalism inevitably means corruption, says Eddie
Ford
Yes
to merger
Claus Ludwig is a member of the Wahlalternative
Arbeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit (WASG) and the Sozialistische
Alternative (SAV) - the German sister party of the
Socialist Party in England and Wales. In 2002, he
was elected as a councillor in Cologne. He spoke to
Tina Becker about the difficulties in uniting the
WASG and the Linkspartei.PDS
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