WW archive > Issue 1035 - 20 November 2014
Safe spaces checked, gains defended
Peter Manson introduces our coverage of the LU policy conference
Letters
Fighting; Percentage; Thank god; Fence-sitters; Dangerous; Communalists; Unproven group; Microcosm; Real loss; Do the bus stop
Abstention and organisation
The Communist Platform abstained on many motions put to conference. Paul Demarty explains why
Good intentions and the road to hell
Where now for disputes and ‘safe spaces’? Mike Macnair examines the issues
The tyranny of safe spaces
We cannot start from the premise of exclusion, argues Yassamine Mather
Under the cosh of the safe spaces police
Three comrades from LU recount their experiences
Immigration controls kill
Eddie Ford calls for the abolition of all border controls, not just ‘racist’ ones
Strikes, smoke bombs and tear gas
Toby Abse reports on the latest union action and the autonomists’ social strike
The beginning of new unionism
Louise Raw Striking a light: the Bryant and May match women and their place in history Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011, pp300, £17.99
Not European left’s historic moment
Syriza’s speaker at Left Unity’s conference expressed unbounded optimism, but, says Micky Coulter, such hype is dangerous
Looks good!
Beauty is more than skin deep. But it helps, says Robbie Rix