WW archive > Issue 122 - 14 December 1995
Spread the French disease: Fight benefit cuts
Pilot schemes for Job Seekers Allowance begin in January. Job centre workers are linking their fight against attacks on pay to a fight against JSA. The Labour Party promises worse cuts and workfare to boot. So how can the mounting attack on pay and services be resisted?
Letters
Reactionary statelet; Nato ‘peace’; WP twists and turns ...; ... curb democracy; Activism and theory
Walsall Labour fragments
Two factions
Bob Smith - For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee
Communist Unity Committee
From 'The Communist', paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, December 16 1920
Historic opportunity demands widest possible debate
Socialist Labour Party Constitution and Rule Book 1996
Below we reprint Arthur Scargill’s detailed proposals for a Socialist Labour Party distributed at an unpublicised meeting on Sunday December 10
Splitting the left from Labour
The debate over Scargill’s call for an SLP was raging in Scotland long before this weekend’s meeting. Nick Clarke from the CPGB in Scotland here replies to John Foster of the CPB and Alan McCombes of SML, writing in the Glasgow Herald with edited versions reproduced here
Scottish socialists reject bureaucratic constitution
The RDG’s draft minimum programme
The CPGB rapprochement process has brought a number of groups from different traditions into its orbit. The Revolutionary Democratic Group has been particularly energetic in pursuing joint work and debating a number of programmatic questions, both in meetings and in the paper. We reprint its minimum programme and its ‘Where we stand’ column, which appears in the RDG’s bulletin, Workers Republic. We hope this will inform readers of areas of agreement and disagreement and take discussions on programme forward
Towards Rapprochement
The RDG recently held a membership aggregate. A packed agenda meant there was insufficient time for a full discussion on rapprochement. The RDG has therefore decided to reconvene in January to deal with this important issue. Below we reproduce the speech our national organiser, Mark Fischer, would have made to this meeting
Merseyside strikes set to continue
The strikes of Merseyside dockers and firefighters look set to continue into the new year. Financial and moral support is increasingly important over the holiday period.
Split looms in CPB
Workers decide in France
René Barthes, executive member of the Marseilles region of the Fédération Syndicaliste Unitaire union organisation and long-standing member of the Parti Communiste Français, spoke (in a personal capacity) to John Bayliss last Tuesday