WW archive > Issue 519 - 11 March 2004
Letters
Splitter!; Smears; Tactical BNP vote; Highest form
Lesser evilism or class politics
Lambeth and Southwark Respect
Out of the pits
Around the web
Fight inside Respect
Recharging the batteries
Free the prisoners
Iratxe Urizar works for Behatokia, the Basque Observatory of Human Rights which highlights the plight of the 700 or so political prisoners currently being held in France, Spain, Mexico, the UK and Argentina. The organisation also campaigns against Spanish legislation introduced last year aimed at banning the nationalist Batasuna (Basque for 'unity'). Comrade Urizar, in London for the ESF assembly, spoke to the Weekly Worker
Fighting shy of principles
Respect
New Greens pose left
Party notes
Control-freaks criticised
Around 150 people attended the March 6-7 assembly to prepare for the European Social Forum in London - and witnessed some rather inelegant twists and turns by the Socialist Workers Party, reports Tina Becker
Electoralism not so bad
Hackney Respect
Reject SWP control-freakery
Good pictures, wrong conclusions
David Douglass, Doncaster NUM panel picket coordinator and area executive member during the Great Strike, reviews Socialist Worker's special issue, 'The miners' strike 1984-85'
Support in principle
European Social Forum
Questioning our times
Andy de la Tour (writer-director), 'Question time', The Arcola (Dalston Kingsland, Silverlink), £10 (concessions: £6; Tuesdays: pay what you can). Ends March 20
Backing for Page in GLA seat
Lewisham and Greenwich Respect
Strategic confrontation in the making
In the first of a series of articles Ian Donovan examines the background to the miners' Great Strike
Democracy and two minorities
Socialist Alliance