Letters
Priceless; No to party; Thrilled; Poetry, please;
Never mind; Loving memory; PCSU adventurism; All and
sundry; World scale; Discrimination; Industrial news;
Notoriety?; Word games; Paternalistic; Equal signs;
Release Mansour
SWP
‘no platform’ fiasco
Last weekend’s grandly named People’s Assembly saw
the Socialist Workers Party adopt a highly contradictory
position on the crucial question of defence of democratic
rights, including the right to free speech. Peter
Manson reports
Difficult but refreshing
alternative
Joe Craig of the Irish group, Socialist Democracy,
welcomes the formation of the Campaign for a Marxist
Party, but wonders whether he might have misunderstood
the politics of the CPGB …
Dither Thornett?
Divisions are opening up in the ranks of the International
Socialist Group/Socialist Resistance over its
relationship with Respect, says Cameron Richards
- Includes satement by
Weekly Worker editor Peter Manson on a factual
error featured in the original article
No bans on christian fundamentalists
James Turley reports on the bureaucratic attempt
to ban Exeter university’s christian student
society
Money for old rope
The elevation of Communist Party of Britain chair
Anita Halpin into the media spotlight over the last
couple of weeks has been one of the more unlikely
stories of the political year. Lawrence Parker
reports
A
vital task
After the launch of the Campaign for a Marxist Party,
and the CPGB decision to redraft its Draft programme,
Nick Rogers identifies possible weaknesses
in the current version
Our republic
For too long the left has dismissed minimum-maximum
programmes. Jack Conrad argues that as well
as shortcomings, gaps and faults there is much that
can positively be learnt from them
Sex and the human revolution
Socialist Worker has begun a series of articles
by Sally Campbell. They purport to explain the origins
of women’s oppression. However, there exists
an obvious lacuna in her account. If women became
unfree, when and how did they become free? Camilla
Power of the Radical Anthropology Group insists
that sex played a big role in the human revolution
- a taboo subject for the SWP
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