WW archive > Issue 617 - 23 March 2006
'Marxists' for another Labour Party
The March 19 launch of the Socialist Party's Campaign for a New Workers' Party went according to plan, writes Peter Manson. The 450 comrades who signed up to its founding declaration overwhelmingly voted for the SP's plans for a Labour Party mark two.
Letters
Life goes on; In the balance; SPGB is right; Heros farewell; Thirsty work; Wide of the Marx; Male out; Damned shame; Dreary dogma; Jack does art
No names
Political strategy needed
The National Union of Students holds its three-day annual conference starting on Tuesday March 28. Dave Isaacson, a delegate from Leeds Metropolitan University student union, looks at the left, NUS and student politics
New Labour sleaze merchants
Capitalism inevitably means corruption, says Eddie Ford
My enemy's enemy
Alan Stevens reviews George Galloway's new pamphlet 'Target Iran' - and is not impressed by its one-sidedness
Martin Smith and his telephone expulsion
As the latest case shows, any member who dares to question the Socialist Workers' Party's political trajectory faces expulsion by telephone. Martin Smith's regime is a disgrace and discredits the left in general, writes SW Kenning
Wrong thoughts
Fight for state power
Students and youth in France are protesting against the government's attempts to impose its 'first employment contract' (CPE) on young workers, which would deprive them of employment rights for the first two years. Emile Fabrol of the communist journal La Lettre de Prométhée looks at the situation thrown up by the current mass protests.
Yes to merger
Claus Ludwig is a member of the Wahlalternative Arbeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit (WASG) and the Sozialistische Alternative (SAV) - the German sister party of the Socialist Party in England and Wales. In 2002, he was elected as a councillor in Cologne. He spoke to Tina Becker about the difficulties in uniting the WASG and the Linkspartei.PDS
You're out, comrade X!
Democracy for the millions, not the millionaires
The CNWP must aim for an SSP-type party, writes Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
A programme for which class?
The fringe meeting organised by the CPGB that followed the Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference gave our comrades and others the opportunity to discuss its politics. Mary Godwin reports