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WW archive > Issue 1006 - 17 April 2014

Ukraine: Peddling absurd fairy tales

Eddie Ford calls for a working class solution that cuts across the rival nationalisms at play in Ukraine

Letters

Kautsky retreat; Staunch Catholic; No2Manson; First here; No merger; Gender vote?; Anglo Protest

Serious approach demanded

We publish the response of the ISN to the CPGB's suggestion of discussions around revolutionary unity

SACP plumbs the depths

While the ANC continues to lose support, writes Peter Manson, it still faces no viable opposition from the working class

True to revolutionary social democracy

It is sometimes claimed that Lenin retired from political activity at the start of World War I in order to rethink the foundations of Marxism. In this extract from his contribution to a book to be published later this year, Lars T Lih argues that nothing could be further from the truth

Throwing babies out with the bathwater

Are those who refer to the USSR as state-capitalist just ‘taking moral distance’ from Stalinism? Ian Donovan responds to Mike Macnair

NUS: Left in the basement

Communist Students were stirring things up at this year's conference of the National Union of Students

NUS: Autonomist bankruptcy

The SWP stall at this year's NUS conference was attacked by 'anarchists'

Imperialism, war and crisis

Yassamine Mather reports on two days of stimulating debate

Circling the drain

The Co-op faces demutualisation by a thousand cuts, argues Paul Demarty

Watch this space

Robbie Rix is so excited, he just can't hide it

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