Weekly Worker 794 Thursday November 19 2009
SWP: The fight gets ugly
What does the SWP majority think democracy looks like? asks James Turley
In the first stages of the dispute, the CC suspended the membership of two comrades from the School of Oriental and African Studies, James Meadway and Claire Solomon. These comrades had the temerity to organise a series of meetings on their own initiative, under the title ‘Mutiny’. ... more
Letters
Misunderstood; Bedroom guardians; Collaborators; Can't miss it; Catholic jihad; Mock shock; Who's confused?'; One country; No letter; No to cuts
Is it the oil, stupid?
Noted US-based academic Cyrus Bina, author of The economics of the oil crisis, has developed a sophisticated Marxist theory of the oil crisis, oil rent, and monopoly and competition in the oil industry. Here he makes a convincing case that the US under George W Bush was not concerned with obtaining direct control over oilfields.
Workers organise against regime
More than 300 workers in the Abadan oil refinery gathered on Thursday November 12 to protest against non-payment of wages and bonuses, saying they had not been paid for more than three months. Yassamine Mather reports
Rival CNWP launched
Another month and yet another call for a halfway-house working class party - this time by the Trotskyist group, Workers Power. Peter Manson is not impressed
Waiting and hoping: LRC
The Labour left is hoping just to maintain its foothold in the party and in parliament, writes Dave McAllister
No coalition with ‘son of No2EU’
Issues of left and right are not so clear-cut when it comes to Respect. Mike Macnair reports on its annual conference, held in Birmingham on Saturday November 14
Bring Loftus to account
Dave Isaacson condemns leading SWP members who continually undermine and sabotage attempts to forge rank and file organisation
Nats and left take a beating
Sarah McDonald assesses the result of the Glasgow North East by-election
Looking good
Robbie Rix asks for shows of appreciation
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