Weekly Worker 786 Thursday September 24 2009
Sex and the human revolution
Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group looks at the transition from ape to human and quantity into quality, plus the importance of language, counter-dominance and sex in the human story. This is an edited version of the speech he gave to the CPGB’s Communist University in August
The way I distinguish science from ideology is quite simple. If the knowledge gives certain people power but not others, it is ideology. So all kinds of racism, sexism and crap bourgeois ideology might give certain people power, but at the expense of the rest of us. ... more
Letters
Disappointing; Draconian; Age of consent; Youth U-turn; Written out; What tactic?; Doomed
Leeds workers on the front line
If the City Council gets away with impoverishing this group of workers, it will be encouraged to take the hatchet to others, writes Jim Moody
Establishment unity
James Turley calls for a powerful workers’ movement needs to offer a real political lead in challenging the power of the capitalists
Opposing the cuts consensus
Peter Manson spoke to Labour left MP John McDonnell about next week’s Labour Party conference, the general election and beyond
Looking to Lisbon to end the crisis
Use the referendum as a platform to call for working class unity in Europe, demands Anne Mc Shane
Mass protests re-ignite
Yassamine Mather calls for support and solidarity for workers in Iran
English Defence League stunts and the real lessons of the 1930s
Calls for state, local government, and BBC censorship and bans will inevitably backfire against the workers’ movement, argues Ben Lewis
Expensive bunch of nothing
Imperialism - with the US being the absolute hegemon - threatens to annihilate civilisation, writes Eddie Ford
Spellcheck
Robbie Rix asks asks for support for a space where leftwingers can have their say
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