WW archive > Issue 545 - 23 September 2004
Letters
Mugabe and ISO; imperialism; Free Trade; Marx's failure; Numbers game; Price rise; It can't hurt; Ray's legacy; Patronising Bull; eMurkey Waters; Living wage
Imperialism and method
Mike Macnair takes up the debate: he takes a closer look at Lenin's and Bukharin's methods and responds to the AWL's Paul Hampton
Left populism and its discontents
Tensions are growing in the Socialist Workers Party - of course, it is all carefully hidden away from the organisation's rank and file. SW Kenning reports
Dishonest attempt to derail pro-choice initiative
Both the Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Action are trying to stop a new pro-abortion campaign from even being launched, warns Anne McShane
Stopping short
Phil Hamilton takes a look at the website of the Green Party of the USA
Revolt of reactionaries
Eddie Ford reports on the protests against the ban on foxhunting and argues that we should take back the countryside from the capitalist farmers and aristos
Drawing together the threads
The 'Call of the Assembly of Social Movements' will be discussed and finalised during the October 15-17 European Social Forum in London. The Assembly of Social Movements has, reports Tina Becker, increasingly taken on a life of its own
No to state bans
The increased electoral success of the British National Party has been met with threats by the home office to bar members of the BNP from being employed as civil servants. But, reports Tina Becker, the recent federal elections in Germany show that a campaign to illegitimatise and even ban the rightwing Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands has backfired badly - the NPD for the first time in decades now has representation in a state parliament
Partners in crime
In his regular column 'Labour Left View' Graham Bash this week discusses the forthcoming Labour Party conference
Abortion aberration
At a Respect meeting in Teeside, candidate John Bloom predicted that "one day people will come to regard abortion as a holocaust". Steve Cooke reports.
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Martin Schreader looks at the impact of the economy on the US elections
Aslef: Reclaim the union
Ahead of the latest Aslef conference, Dean Hooper reports on the damaging factional infighting
Needed: a party of the left
John Bloom is the Respect candidate for the Hartlepool parliamentary by-election on September 30. He spoke to Peter Manson
Aslef: Reclaim the union
Ahead of the latest Aslef conference, Dean Hooper reports on the damaging factional infighting