WW archive > Issue 664 - 15 March 2007
Letters
Hero; Wishful thinking; Correction; Old versus new; Democracy; Labours ghost; Like Lansbury; Consumer arousal; Blood-sucking; PCSU split vote; Revo and WP; Quite impressive; Youth reform; Resources; The right thing; Only one tactic
Solidarity and SWP's favourite anti-semite
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign wants to have it both ways over saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and the Deir Yassin Remembered group. Tony Greenstein (a founder member of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and a member of Jews Against Zionism) reports on the annual general meeting
Abolition and working class solidarity
Official society celebrates the bicentenary of the ending of slavery as part of 'our common British heritage'. Mike Macnair examines the class forces that underpinned anti-slavery
Reid whips up xenophobia
In response to home secretary's John Reid xenophobic incitement directed at those from outside Britain, Jim Moody argues for open borders
CMP steps up a gear
Peter Manson reports on the first national members' meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party
Opportunism in Irish conditions
Socialist Workers Party (Ireland) held its Marxism 2007 event in Dublin over the weekend of March 10-11. The event reflects, as it does in Britain, the current political and organisational state of the SWP. Anne Mc Shane reports
Being called a 'black bastard' should not be normal
In a certain sense, the recent comments by the now disgraced Tory MP, Patrick Mercer, can be welcomed, says Eddie Ford
Uphill battle for McDonnell
With in all likelihood only a couple of months to go before Tony Blair steps down as Labour leader, the campaign to elect John McDonnell as his replacement is still unable to gather enough steam to ensure that, at the very least, his name appears on the ballot paper. Peter Manson reports
Braving death threats
On February 26, the notorious Jihadist Ansar al-Islam group, based in Kurdistan/Iraq, sent a death threat to Iraqi socialist and women's rights activist Houzan Mahmoud, representative abroad of the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq. The email - imaginatively titled 'Kill' - reads: "With the permission of great god, we will kill you either in Iraq or in London by the middle of March, because you are campaigning against islam. You should be sent to god for punishment." Houzan spoke to the Weekly Worker about the threat and her campaigning work that has provoked it.
Province of permanent instability 'normalises'
Liam O Ruairc of the Irish Republican Socialist Party looks at the situation in Northern Ireland after the elections and the possibilities of power sharing