WW archive > Issue 675 - 11 May 2007
Not rabbit hutches, but houses fit for the revolutionary proletariat
When Margaret Hodge recently placed the blame for housing scarcity on migrants, she deliberately ignored the glaringly obvious, social solution: that of providing more houses. Jim Gilbert remembers Red Vienna and its houses fit for the revolutionary proletariat
Letters
Labour dues; Alternative; Fine words; Sore thumb; Non-imperialist; US opposition; Mild abuse; Wild abuse; Real battler; Comprehensive
'It has to go'
The May 26 CMP day school, held in Manchester's Friends Meeting House, was the first in a series of four originally designed to facilitate the CMP-CPGB merger process. Peter Manson reports
No individual solutions
Simon Wells comments on the plans to introduce congestion charges in Manchester
Blow to Adams' ambitions
The status quo prevails in the aftermath of Ireland's general election, bringing disappointment in particular to Sinn Féin. Anne Mc Shane reports
Legitimating racism
Dave Landau of the No One is Illegal campaign makes the case for open borders
Where now for CMP?
Peter Manson looks at the prospects for the Campaign for a Marxist Party and reports on the first in a series of CMP day schools
Key weapon of struggle
The task of debating the CPGB Draft programme, a necessarily protracted prelude to a full redraft and its submission to the organisation as a whole for final discussion and approval, is now well underway. Mary Godwin reports
US-Iran talks
After weeks of anticipation and with the expected media hype, the first official meeting between Iran's Islamic republic and the United States in nearly 30 years took place in Baghdad this week. Yassamine Mather reports
Rabbi and punk poet
Build a halfway house
The formation in 1920 of the CPGB was an error resulting from rigid dogma, argues Phil Sharpe of the Democratic Socialist Alliance
Lib Dems re-ignite Plaid rebellion
Bob Davies on the latest twists and turns in Welsh politics