WW archive > Issue 692 - 11 October 2007
Booze, fags and turkey twizzlers
On October 1, it became illegal for under-18s to buy tobacco. James Turley comments
Letters
Uncomradely; Dictatorial; Losing it; All drunk; Splinter; Never-never land; Clannish; No defeat; Sleight of hand; Disgrace; Islamist slander
Socialism from below in Respect
Longstanding SWP member Nick Bird has resigned from the organisation in protest at its lack of internal democracy and change of policy on Respect. He spoke to Peter Manson
Motions and nominations
At the Stop the War Coalition annual general meeting on October 27, the CPGB urges support for the motions drawn up by Communist Students and Hands off the People of Iran and calls for the election of Ben Lewis and Yassamine Mather to the STWC steering committee
Factional property
Issue number three of Marxist Voice, the journal of the Campaign for a Marxist Party, is a great disappointment, says Phil Kent
Tory revival will squeeze left
Carey Davies comments
Orwellian experience
Today British politicians shed crocodile tears over the repression of the Burmese regime, but the terror of Than Shwe cannot equal the brutality and arrogance endured by the Burmese people under British colonial rule from 1886 to 1948. Emily Branson comments
Spin on this, Brown
Gordon Brown should not have the right to dedice when the electorate get to vote. Jim Moody calls for annual parliaments
Boycotts and working class principle
Mike Macnair outlines the tactics communists ought to adopt in relation to Israel