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Summer Offensive

 

 

 

Weekly Worker 721 Thursday May 15 2008


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Letters
Minority view; Universalism; Excellent; DSP saga; Career advice; Wasted years

Labour left looks right
Mark Fischer reports on Labour Left Briefing's AGM

Good culture, bad politics
This year for the first time the CPGB attended the annual fete of the French Trotskyist group, Lutte Ouvrière. Peter Manson reports

Sentimentalism covers for poverty of ideas
If comrades were still unconvinced that the left has failed to learn the lessons of the past and provide radically new alternatives, then last weekend's '1968 and all that' conference unintentionally drove the message home. Dave Isaacson, Nick Jones and Phil Kent report

Workers enter the fray
Student protests in May 1968 ignited a much bigger explosion. An unprecedented proletarian general strike. Jack Conrad charts the deepening crisis of Gaullist France

Profit rises and capital's adjustments
Bill Jefferies outlines why he thinks China and Russia were vital to what he sees as capitalism's expansion

Categories and decline
Hillel Ticktin bases his prognosis on fundamental categories such as value, money and capital. The system faces a crisis deeper than anything seen since 1929

Profit rises and capital's adjustments
Bill Jefferies outlines why he thinks China and Russia were vital to what he sees as capitalism's expansion

Left unity not on offer
What sort of 'unity' does the student movement need? Dave Isaacson and Ben Klein reject economism and put forward the case for Marxism

Amidst attacks business as usual
Dave Vincent looks forward to the PCS conference

Crocodile tears and democracy
Liberal interventionism after the Burmese cyclone would spell another disaster, writes James Turley


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