Letters
Wrong analysis; Single state; Progressive?; SWP tact;
Unrealistic; Divisions; Two-stage; Splitters!; Armed
militia; Unions, not party; Tommy; Capitulation; British
ending; Happy slave; Selfish gene
Summer Offensive
2006
Last push
Howard Roak is tickled pink - or perhaps an even
deeper crimson hue - that others on the left are launching
‘Summer Offensives’ of their own. Well, sort of …
Fight on two fronts
July 29 saw the official launch of the election campaign
for the September 17 Berlin regional elections, where
the local WASG (Electoral Initiative for Labour and
Social Justice) and the governing Linkspartei.PDS
are to stand against each other. Ben Lewis reports
from Germany
Prophet
flawed
Green Party member Derek Wall remembers Murray
Bookchin (1921-2006)
After
the court victory, civil war begins in earnest
Peter Manson comments on what awaits the Scottish
Socialist Party in the aftermath of Tommy Sheridan's
court victory
- Sheridan wins first
round
Mike Macnair discusses some of the legal implications
of the case and argues that socialists should not
use the bourgeois press to fight out their differences
- Struggle must begin
afresh
Nick Rogers, a member of the SSP Workers Unity
platform, gives his view on the crisis
- Prostitution
policy and the NOTW smears
Mike Macnair remembers the discussion in the SSP over the question of prostitution
- What went wrong?
The SSP went into court without any political plan,
writes Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic
Group
British duality and the
class struggle
National consciousness is complex. As Jack Conrad
shows, British national consciousness is particularly
complex, being at the same time English, Scottish
and Welsh. It also involves class and class struggle
