WW archive > Issue 654 - 04 January 2007
Decriminalise sex work
How should the left relate to sex workers? Following the murder of five prostitutes in Ipswich, Peter Manson spoke to Ana Lopes of the International Union of Sex Workers (www.iusw.org)
Letters
Pub talk; Hungary 1956; Point of fact; Hot air; Whose parliament?; New recruit; Obnoxious; Solidarity motions; Solidarity-SSP; No position; No alternative; Oil war
Founding Statement
Hands Off the People of Iran campaign
Workers' militia and burning necessity
Is workers' defence a question for the future or should communists champion the right to bear arms today? Jim Moody looks at the issues
Death of a nationalist
Mike Macnair looks at the death of Saddam Hussein
Chartism - the second coming
Does the Revolutionary Democratic Group have a sectarian attitude to mass workers' party projects? Dave Craig replies to Mike Macnair's criticisms
The test of 1917
Did events force Lenin to jettison his 'democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry' formulation after the fall of tsarism? Or was this formulation concretised in the republic of workers', peasants' and soldiers' soviets? Jack Conrad continues his study of the communist programme
Iran solidarity
Yassamine Mather (Critique editorial group) explains why the campaign 'Hands off the People of Iran' has been set up. To get in touch with the campaign, email nowaroniran@yahoo.co.uk