Weekly Worker 783 Thursday September 3 2009
VI Lenin and the influence of Kautsky
In the first of three talks given at the CPGB’s Communist University, historian Lars T Lih discussed the relationship between two great Marxists. This is an edited version of his speech dealing with the period 1894-1914
Picture the situation. It is Vladimir Ilych Lenin’s 50th birthday in April 1920. ... Lenin ... rather reluctantly comes out onto the stage and says that he would like to read out a long quotation by Karl Kautsky ... more
Letters
Respect; Flexible fascists; Playing with fire; PR party; Chile strike; Drop the charges; Prostitution
CWU prepares for national strike
Rank and file organisation is the need of the hour in the CWU, writes Jim Moody
You are what you eat
Crude attempts to introduce ‘market incentives’ in the NHS have led to a massive increase in bureaucratic waste, writes Eddie Ford
Battle of the Ballot Box
John Masters looks at the previous performance of left candidates and discusses the attitude communists should take in the 2010 general election
Loyal to the bureaucracy
AJ Byrne reviews Andrew Murray’s The T&G story: a history of the Transport and General Workers Union 1922-2007 Lawrence and Wishart, 2008, pp224, £14.99
Psycho-babble about Trots
Mike Macnair reviews Jan Willem Stutje’s Ernest Mandel: a rebel’s dream deferred Verso, 2009, pp600, £19.99
Oskar Lafontaine: ‘We want to govern’
The results for the German left party Die Linke in the August 30 regional elections are impressive, particularly the 21.3% achieved in the federal state of Saarland. But is this the beginning of the end for the “party of opposition”? Tina Becker takes a closer look
Lockerbie, Libya, and global control
James Turley asks who is the real threat to the world’s masses
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