WW archive > Issue 141 - 02 May 1996

SLP moves to break Labour stranglehold

Gordon Brown has unambiguously announced Labour’s intention to continue the Tories’ attack on workers with a promised squeeze on public spending. Yet after the local elections Blair’s Labour Party looks set to win a huge anti-Tory vote, taking it to victory in the next general election. Can the Socialist Labour Party turn the tide on the Labour-Tory rightwing consensus?

Letters

SLP caucus; Restraining debate; How was that?; Factions; Strange article; Purges

Green shoots of communism

Party notes

After the conference - Which way now for the SLP?

CPGB 13th Summer Offensive launch meeting

Strengths and weaknesses

Mary Ward is a member of the SLP Scottish steering committee. Here she emphasises the need for workers in the Scottish Socialist Alliance to join the SLP

De-recognition threat

Dundee fight against school closures

Why so shy?

Thousands of revolutionary workers from Turkey and Kurdistan took to the streets for the London May Day march

Makers or spectators?

Around the left

No fool’s Gold

Wonderful response to the call

From the British Worker, official strike bulletin of the TUC, May 5 1926

Old friends meet - but are they socialist?

Russia and China

Utopian at heart

Ian Mahoney reviews Social anarchism or lifestyle anarchism: An unbridgeable chasm by Murray Bookchin (AK Press, pp86, £5.95)

Counting the cost

John Bayliss reviews The nature of numbers by Ian Stewart (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, pp150, £9.99)

What sort of party?

Scargillism or republicanism

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) writes on the choices facing the Socialist Labour Party

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