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Summer Offensive

 

 

 

Weekly Worker 688 Thursday September 13 2007


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Letters
Sin bin; Idiots and oafs; Time to go; State of play; Hard as steel; Not usual; Robots are us; So what?

Leading workers by the nose
Our immediate task is to pose a political alternative to the existing regime, writes Mike Macnair, not wait for the ‘transitional method’ to produce soviets. This article concludes his series on ‘permanent revolution’

Passing exams and changing the rules
All students should read Bertell Ollman’s How to take an exam and remake the world (Black Rose Books), says Benjamin Edgar Klein

More of the same
Around 100 students gathered at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies on Saturday September 8 for what was billed as a student Stop the War “conference”. Nick Jones reports


Idols and demons
In the saga surrounding Madeleine McCann, the British media is trying to convince us that the nuclear family is the one remaining haven in a cold world and that the Portuguese police, not being British, must be somehow uniquely incompetent or corrupt. Eddie Ford comments

The prison officers dilemma
Cameron Richards
takes issue with Jim Moody’s article ‘The turn of the screws’ (September 6) and the position of the CPGB leadership

Smearing solidarity
The issue of Iran solidarity has provoked controversy recently in the debates on Indymedia Ireland (www.indymedia.ie). Anne Mc Shane reports


Triggers and real causes
The reluctancy of the big five banks in the United Kingdom to lend money to each other shows how fragile the whole system of global finance capital really is, says Jim Moody

George Galloway demands the scalp of
John Rees - so do we

Following the failure of the SWP to reach an accommodation with George Galloway, is John Rees now preparing for a final showdown at Respect’s annual conference in November? Peter Manson reports on the latest developments

  • Click here to read George Galloway's document It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
  • Click here to read the SWP's internal document on the crisis

Has history refuted dialectics?
Rosa Lichtenstein
explains why she rejects dialectical materialism - the ‘mystical theory Engels smuggled into Marxism’


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