WW archive > Issue 450 - 03 October 2002
Call for Socialist Alliance political paper reaffirmed
Saddam Hussein's reactionary regime
Rifondazione leads Rome anti-war demonstration
Foot - help wanted
Weapon in class struggle
Mike Wayne, 'Political Film - the dialectics of third cinema', Pluto Press, 2001, pp176, £14.99 pbk, £45 hbk
Italian comrades play host
Break with capitalist ANC
On October 1 hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike across South Africa against the privatisation policies of the ANC, fronted by Jeff Radebe, one of six government ministers who are members of the South African Communist Party. Reporting from Johannesburg, Dale McKinley of the Anti-Privatisation Forum exposes ANC-SACP double talk
Dictatorship of the proletariat and the Second International
In the third of his articles discussing peaceful and violent revolution Jack Conrad examines the use of the term 'dictator-ship of the proletariat' after Marx an Engels
For a democratic anti-war movement
Unions oppose Blair as revolt develops
Blackpool rumblings show potential
Corporate muscle and state power
Has corporate power distorted 'true' democracy? Can protest 'reinvent' the state? Mike Fitzpatrick presents his defence of Marx's theory of the state and takes issue with the fashionable anti-globalisation ideas of George Monbiot and Noreena Hertz