WW archive > Issue 150 - 04 July 1996
The lesser evil?
Cuts in jobs, services and attacks on workers’ conditions - whether at work or in health, education or housing - have led millions to despair. But instead of looking for a real alternative the working class, lacking any vision of its own potential to take over the running of society, is reduced to seeking out the ‘lesser evil’
Letters
Not one and the same; Equal right; Attack on Emek Partisi; More on the hunger strikes in Turkey
Fat cat of the year
In suspense
Summer Offensive, Scargill and “the Turks”
Party notes
Militant Labour to ‘Socialist Party’?
What’s in a name?
Fickle project
Around the left
Manchester witch-hunt
Steve Smethurst has been bureaucratically excluded from membership of the Socialist Labour Party. The chair of his branch preferred to close down an SLP meeting rather than allow the membership to discuss the question. We reprint below the text of his letter to Manchester members
The IRA and armed strategy
‘Huttonomics’ and the ‘Blair Revolution’
Richard James reviews The state we’re in by W Hutton (1995, pp352) and The Blair revolution - can New Labour deliver? by P Mandelson and R Liddle (1996, pp274)
Artistic poverty for capitalism’s sake
Left SLP trends
We reprint below extracts from a document distributed by West London Socialist Labour Party member Barbara Duke
The party we need
Martin Blum rejects Dave Craig’s call for a Communist-Labour Party
Habits of thought
From the Workers’ Weekly, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, June 25 1926
An honourable man?
Scottish Labour MP John McAllion resigned his front bench seat in protest against Blair’s backtrack on devolution. Now he is being portrayed as a ‘man of honour’ by the media in Scotland. Communist Mary Ward - McAllion’s election agent and leader of Dundee district council when a Labour member - could not disagree more