Letters
Then and now; Back Tommy; 50-50; SWP fetish; Good
news; Ones and twos; Broad left; Arbitary; Climate
change; Comey capers
Summer Offensive
2006
Show some love
As the second week of our two-month Summer Offensive
financial campaign closes, comrades, supporters and
friends of the Weekly Worker have contributed
£1,039 in the last seven days, bringing our total
for the first fortnight to £4,249; not a bad start
towards the £30,000 target.
Military calls the tune
Turkey is fast approaching yet another crisis, as
the AKP (Justice and Development Party) government
tries to balance the interests of finance capital
and the nationalistic state bureaucracy with its own
mass support. Esen Uslu analyses the current
situation
Obscene
apologia
Anybody expecting a debate at the annual conference
of the Stop the War Coalition was to be disappointed,
writes Anne Mc Shane. The last thing the leadership
wants is a challenge to their ‘Don’t criticise
Iran’
- Against war,
for democracy
Comrade Jamshid from the Committee to Defend
the Iranian People’s Rights spoke to Anne Mc
Shane about his organisation and the role of the
anti-war movement
- Don’t mention the
regime
The June 12 ‘open organising meeting’
of Action Iran quickly focused on one question -
should it take up a position on the nature of the
Iranian regime or simply remain a ‘single-issue
campaign’? Tina Becker reports
Wanted: principled opposition
There is a joint left opposition emerging in the two
German groups, WASG and Linkspartei.PDS, coming together
in a new workers’ party. But is it prepared to
take on the existing leaderships in both organisations?
Ben Lewis reports from the June 10 conference
in Berlin, ‘For an anti-capitalist left’
No to workers’ representation
Lawrence Parker reports from the June 12 AGM of
the People's Press Printing Society (the body that owns
and produces the Morning Star)
Bitter
fruits of personality politics
SSP member Nick Rogers gives his view of the
crisis engulfing the party. Tommy Sheridan’s
celebrity status should have been tackled decisively
at an early stage
Republican
democracy and revolutionary patience
Mike Macnair concludes his series on communist strategy
by throwing down the challenge to the existing left
What should have been done
Jack Conrad concludes his series of articles on
the general strike
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