WW archive > Issue 467 - 13 February 2003
Abolish the second chamber
Vote Socialist Alliance
Firefighter Syd Platt is the Socialist Alliance candidate in the February 20 council by-election in Haverstock ward in the London borough of Camden. Peter Manson spoke to him
North Korea next target?
Origins of islam
Hidden alternative
Nation-state and feudal revolution
Patrick J Geary, 'The myth of nations: the medieval origins of Europe', Princeton, 2002, pp199, £13.71
Make unity real
Steve Freeman has announced his intention to stand for chair of the Bedfordshire Socialist Alliance on behalf of the Democratic and Republican Platform. A fellow comrade from the RDG spoke to him
Lack of ambition?
Christophe Aguiton is a leading comrade on the French mobilising committee. Like most of those from France participating in the ESF preparatory meetings, he is a member of the lobbying group Attac, as well as the Confédération Générale du Travail. He spoke to Tina Becker
Resist pull to right
'Indies' meet - two views
The Socialist Alliance's so-called independents are by definition a motley bunch. Lacking a programme and having been burnt by one or another of the sects, they retreat into localism, invent bureaucratic solutions to political problems and forlornly play court to the SWP. But parties - real parties - are built top-down and often require fierce factional struggles. The SA indies should either struggle to form themselves into a solid grouping that can have a real, useful effect or the individuals concerned should look to developing organisational relations with one or another of the SA's pro-party factions. Certainly, as the two - very different - reports of their February 8 conference show, they are going nowhere fast as presently constituted
Serving the movement
Around the web: Stop the War Coalition
No repeat of 1914
Attac on efficient organisation
Anti-war retreat
No trust in UN
Long expected move
For UK regime change
Main enemy is at home
'Indies' meet - two views
The Socialist Alliance's so-called independents are by definition a motley bunch. Lacking a programme and having been burnt by one or another of the sects, they retreat into localism, invent bureaucratic solutions to political problems and forlornly play court to the SWP. But parties - real parties - are built top-down and often require fierce factional struggles. The SA indies should either struggle to form themselves into a solid grouping that can have a real, useful effect or the individuals concerned should look to developing organisational relations with one or another of the SA's pro-party factions. Certainly, as the two - very different - reports of their February 8 conference show, they are going nowhere fast as presently constituted