WW archive > Issue 405 - 25 October 2001
Letters
SA paper; Foreign office inaction; Afghan coup; Web applause; Mullah's side
Neither Taliban nor imperialism
Ian Donovan replies to Bob Pitt?s defence of the Taliban
Terrorists and the web
Unleash many weapons
Why we must have an SA paper
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
Statement on the US strikes on Afghanistan
Our history CPGB and the miners
Having taken a lead in the Hands off Russia movement the CPGB threw itself into the struggle of Britain?s miners. At the end of August 1920 the miners voted in favour of an all-out strike, their twin demands being a wage rise to restore purchasing power and sizeable reduction in the price of domestic coal. The Party assessed the prospects in the lead article of The Communist September 9 1920. But the miners were abandoned by the reformist leaders of the Triple Alliance transport and railway unions, who forced the Miners? Federation back into negotiations with the employers. There were no concessions on offer, just the now familiar trick of a productivity deal, referred to as the 'datum line'. Over the signatures of its chair and secretary, comrades Arthur MacManus and Albert Inkpin the Party urged the miners to steel themselves for a bigger fight to come.
Third camp: our war aims
Greater Manchester
Northwest repeats Coalition pattern
Sectarian propagandism
Bob Pitt argues that it is perfectly principled for socialists to defend the Taliban against imperialism
Teesside
Moving forward
Before their eyes
Socialist Party - Resisting capitalism - the case for a new workers? party - London 2001, pp24, ?1.50
London
Preparing for May
Exeter marches against war
IRA disarms
Adams and McGuinness look south