Weekly Worker 793 Thursday November 12 2009
Iranian workers gain new courage
Iranian demonstrations have given a real boost to working class opponents of the regime, writes Yassamine Mather
Even the bourgeois media had to admit that the radicalisation of the demonstrations has marked a new phase in the life of the opposition. The main slogans that dominated the day were directed at the supreme leader himself ... more
Letters
Monotonic; Confused CS; Got it in one; Political road
We won’t pay for their crisis
Anne Mc Shane reports on a meeting that could be a spark
Confident and boasting of growth
The Socialist Party in England and Wales held its annual school, Socialism 2009, on November 7-8. Tina Becker reports on the opening rally
Marxist party or Labour Party mark two?
SPEW's Socialism event had a session on young people. Laurie McCauley reports and asks what politics the working class needs
Nationalist common sense
Nick Rogers attended the No2EU session at SPEW’s Socialism event
Soviet ‘planning’ and bolt-on democracy
SPEW’s Socialism event had a session on Stalinism’s collapse. Mark Fischer points out what it represents for Marxists
Towards an election coalition
November 7 saw the latest in what now seems to be an annual conference on working class political representation, organised by the RMT union. Peter Manson reports
The working class intellectual and the apparat
James Turley offers an appreciation of the life of Chris Harman, 1942-2009
Get the troops out now
Eddie Ford examines why UK politics now questions troops being in Afghanistan
Regime’s most persistent opposition
Ali Pichgah is a veteran of the Iranian oil strikes of 1979-81, when he was a representative of the Tehran refinery workers shora (council) on the National Shora of Oil Workers. He spoke to Yassamine Mather about the current situation in Iran
Militants condemn sell-out
Abandoning postal strikes in the run-up to Christmas is at best mistaken, writes Jim Moody
Go for it
Robbie Rix was a bit surprised not to receive more cash
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