WW archive > Issue 1033 - 06 November 2014
End the war on drugs
Yet another report showing the harm done by anti-drug laws, writes Eddie Ford - and therefore destined to be ignored
Letters
Bitter taste; Backward affair; Unmasked; Humanitarian?; Self-liquidate
Intersectionality vs social-imperialism
The recent spat in the NUS over Islamic State is indicative of the political disorientation of the student movement, writes Charles Gradnitzer
Class struggle intensifies
Toby Abse reports on both verbal and physical clashes, as workers resist the latest attacks from ‘Italy’s Tony Blair’
A better way of being
Mass protest looks likely to sink the Irish government's introduction of water charges. Anne McShane spoke to a leading member of the 'Cobh Says No' campaign
SWP: Hype and delusions
Peter Manson reviews Internal Bulletin No2
Relating to the left as it is
The Communist Platform met on November 2 to prepare for the Left Unity conference in two weeks time. Daniel Harvey reports
The limits of journalism
Nick Davies Hack attack: how the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch Chatto and Windus, 2014, pp430, £20
Organise the militant minority
The attacks on the miners were aimed at breaking organised labour in general; but union bureaucrats failed to rise to the challenge of building mass solidarity. Jack Conrad argued for a rank-and-file movement in this Leninist reprint
A pseudo-democratic caricature
The problem is not the House of Lords’ London bias, or even its unelected character: there should be no second chamber, argues Paul Demarty
Plan B
Robbie Rix is perturbed at the precision demanded by the Post Office