WW archive > Issue 819 - 27 May 2010
No to the race to the bottom
Peter Manson looks at the prospects for the BA strike
Letters
Lip service; Left slight; Premature; Dates; International; Absurd
For and against 'holding lines'
Tina Becker interviewed three leading delegates at the May 15-16 Die Linke conference held in Rostock
Diane Abbott splits left
Communists want to see the Labour Party completely transformed, writes James Turley
SWP stunt backfires
Peter Manson finds only shamefaced and dishonest criticism
Key debates evaded
The German left party Die Linke is going from strength to strength. But crucial debates on the future of the party, the nature of capitalism and participation in bourgeois governments will seriously test it over the next few months. In the first of two articles, Tina Becker reports from the 2010 conference, which took place on May 15-16 in Rostock
See no evil, hear no evil
Ben Lewis is astounded by the PCS call for the state and employers to be granted more power over the workforce in the name of anti-fascism
Jafar Panahi released
Solidarity works, says Jim Moody
Electoral reform and communist strategy
Nick Rogers discusses the democratic forms appropriate to the rule of the working class
Everything from the top
Laurie Smith sees the question of unity being further depoliticised
Socialist Party consolidates its grip
Dave Vincent reports on the conference of the civil service union
Five minutes
Robbie Rix asks who's going to be first to donate £10