WW archive > Issue 155 - 22 August 1996
New attack on union rights
London Underground drivers are divided again with the Aslef union accepting management’s latest deal and RMT rejecting by a 3:1 majority. As the Tories threaten to clamp down even harder on trade union rights RMT drivers are now left to go it alone
Letters
Ark of the covenant; Bad bombs; On howlers
Socialist News
Party notes
Turning back the clock
All out in Liverpool
General election strategy
SL Kenning looks at latest developments in the Socialist Labour Party
Class fighter
Obituary: Michael Fenn 1938-96
Unanswered questions
Around the left
Part Islam, part chauvinism
BBC chickens come home to roost
Exciting encounters
Phil Rudge reviews solo guitar improvisations 1975-1977 (Domestic and public, CD, Emanem 1995) and Improvisation: its nature and practice in music (The British Library, 1992, 2nd ed) by Derek Bailey
Lion’s meow
Tommy Sheridan: If I were prime minister (Channel 4, August 11)
Rapprochement debate crystallises
At the Communist University ‘96 rapprochement was on the top of the agenda. But there was no diplomatic truce and key areas of disagreement were fought out throughout the school in the context of many different areas of discussion
No middle way
Republicanism and democracy
SLP confusion and contortion
J Johnson of the Liaison Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist International replies to Richard Brenner of Workers Power (Weekly Worker May 30), and gives his views on WP’s attitude to the SLP. The LCMRCI is a recent split from the WP international organisation
Labour’s referendum sop
The right to national self-determination