Letters
Hypocrisy; Despicable IST; No shield; Sectarian move;
Nightmare; More, please; Europe calls; Stolen land;
Global theory
A study in bureaucratic
inertia
Jack Conrad shows that, while the Tory government
assiduously and ruthlessly prepared for the 1926 general
strike, the TUC was content to pass left-sounding
resolutions
WASG removes Berlin
leadership
At its meeting on May 13, the national executive
of the WASG decided to remove the regional executives
in Berlin and the east German federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
says Tina Becker
Merger in jeopardy
Tina
Becker and Ben Lewis reply to Sascha Stanicic
(Sozialistische Alternative) on the questions of his
organisation's role in the Wahlalternative Arbeit
und Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Emancipatory socialism and
Realpolitik
Katja Kipping is a Linkspartei.PDS MP and the
party’s national vice-chair. She spoke to Tina Becker
about the difficult merger process with the WASG (Wahlalternative
Arbeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit)
The minimum platform and
extreme democracy
Under what conditions should communists participate
in government? Mike Macnair revisits the strategic
problem of authority
Searching for ESF positives
The politics CPGB comrades encountered in the various
workshops and seminars at the May 4-7 European Social
Forum show that the danger of organisational fragmentation
the ESF faces stems from the programmatic crisis of
the workers’ movement across the continent, says
Huw Bynon
Personality
crisis
The Scottish Socialist Party appears to be on the
brink of a potentially devastating split between,
on the one hand, the supporters of the party’s former
convenor and most prominent figure, Tommy Sheridan,
and, on the other, the leadership majority around
the SSP’s main theoretician, policy and press coordinator
Alan McCombes. Peter Manson reports
Who’s
stereotyping
Jeremy Butler reviews Russell T Davies' Doctor
Who (BBC1)
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