WW archive > Issue 148 - 20 June 1996
Postal workers demand action
Rank and file put CWU on the offensive
Letters
SLP openness; Ultimate expression; Cover up; LRCI rival
Lawyers’ bonanza
Our backyard
Party notes
Final lap
Winning our comrades
No witch hunt ... yet
Alliance election battle in Scotland
The Scottish Socialist Alliance is fighting its first election on June 27. John Davies of Scottish Militant Labour is standing in the Invergordon ward of the Highlands council. Mary Ward, SLP member in Dundee, spoke to him
Unity is strength
Yeltsin squeaks ahead
Revolutionary faint-hearts
Around the left
Philosophical limitations
Phil Sharpe of the Trotskyist Unity Group makes some initial comments on István Mészáros’s latest work, Beyond Capital (Merlin Press 1995)
To make us grieve
Helen Ellis reviews Coriolanus, directed by Steven Berkoff at the Mermaid Theatre (London, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, £9.50-£18.50)
General strike and the left
Workers Power in Bolivia (Poder Obrero) and the Socialist Labour Party in Paraguay report on countries rocked by general strike and the tasks of revolutionaries
Coup d’état defeated in Paraguay
Coordination of general strikes
Resolution of Poder Obrero (Workers Power, Bolivia) and Socialist Labour Party (Paraguay)
A factory meeting
From the Workers’ Weekly, paper of the CPGB, June 18 1926
Fisc splits over ‘British road’
The Fourth International Supporters Caucus is a highly secret faction, well ensconced in the topmost positions in the SLP. Not content with fronting the anti-communist witch hunt, Fisc decided to provide the apologetic theory necessary to justify Scargill and his draft constitution. For those within Fisc who retain a commitment to revolutionary politics this was a reformist step too far
For a Communist-Labour Party
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) debates the way forward for the SLP
Another ‘peace’ bomb
The Manchester bomb, far from finally burying the ‘peace process’, is aimed at carrying it forward
The ‘luxury’ of openness
The Weekly Worker this week publishes in its entirety a document received via the offices of the Irish Republican Socialist Party. The document, from republican socialist political prisoners in Portlaoise Jail, ‘instructs’ us to apologise for printing an article (‘Historical reality’, Weekly Worker May 30) of which they disapprove. They allege that we were duped by British intelligence into publishing ‘disinformation’