WW archive > Issue 508 - 11 December 2003
Declaration launched
Respect: draft declaration matches the pig of a name
Letters
Marginal left; Unity Coalition; Ungentlemanly; Mandates; SSP or Labour
ESF - learn from mistakes
Tina Becker reports the latest from the European Social Forum
Put socialism at core of coalition
Nick Wrack, chair of the Socialist Alliance, has issued a statement welcoming the Respect coalition's draft declaration of principles and announcement that it is to contest the European and Greater London Authority elections in June 2004
Break with yellow unions
Houzan Mahmoud of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq reports on how one British left group continues to side with the Ba'athist oppressors who once ruled Iraq
Bush, Blair - hands off Iraq!
A campaign of solidarity with the democratic, progressive and secular forces fighting against the occupation is long overdue, argues Ian Mahoney
HQ wrecked
Statement of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) protesting against the attack by the US occupation forces
Collapsing democratic centralism
The following statement was issued by John Pearson before his expulsion. Despite his fulsome apologies he makes clear his intention to continue voting against CPGB positions. He would do so either when he claimed not to have received "prior notice" or under cover of a mandate from Stockport Socialist Alliance
Democracy Platform and Respect
The first committee meeting of the newly formed Democracy Platform of the Socialist Alliance took place in Birmingham on December 6.
Selective hearing
Around the web: Labour Party
Electoral deal ratified
Peter Manson reports on the French left and the EU elections
Draft declaration
Respect coalition's draft declaration of principles
R for republicanism
Dave Craig urges respect for republicanism
Socialist Party gains second Lewisham councillor
Peter Manson reports on the election of Chris Flood
Wanted - an anti-capitalist transitional programme
In the light of the electoral agreement struck between Lutte Ouvrière and the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire, Emile Fabrol of Gauche Communiste (a revolutionary faction within the Parti Communiste Franà§ais) examines the possibilities for left unity in France following the mass strikes of May-June 2003