WW archive > Issue 551 - 04 November 2004
Letters
Gay-bashing; Refused; Abortion Rights; Language Rights; Insane abuse; Draft programme; Valid; What's the rush?
Incoherence
Constitutional shenanigans
Civil service workers fight back
Lee Rock is London regional organiser of the Public and Commercial Services Union and a member of the CPGB. He spoke to Tina Becker about the November 5 civil service strike
Wales at Sea
Abolish the elected monarch
Kerry deserved to lose - Bush did not deserve to win
Gerrymandering, exclusions and the farce of three- minute democracy
The October 30-31 conference of Respect showed the SWP at its worst, writes Peter Manson: fixing delegations, voting down socialist and democratic principles, demonising opponents and riding roughshod over any remaining pretence of inclusivity
View from the US left
Martin Schreader, editor of Appeal to Reason, paper of the revolutionary Debs faction of the Socialist Party US
Overstretched canvas
Kath Owen, Respect candidate in Yorkshire and Humber for the June 10 EU elections, responded to events at conference by submitting this letter of resignation
SWP in denial
Many independent delegates and observers were deeply unhappy with the intolerant atmosphere and blatant gerrymandering
Autumn colours or: Green turns to orange... and brown?
Michael Woodin, Caroline Lucas Green alternatives to globalisation: a manifesto Pluto Press, 2004, pp262, £11.99