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WW archive > Issue 162 - 10 October 1996

Labour razzmatazz shatters illusions

Tony Blair has every reason to be pleased with himself. The Labour Party conference went like clockwork

Letters

Be my friend; Dream on; Contesting names

Hard talking falls on deaf ears

Party perspectives

Party notes

Arbitrary ages

Alliances miss opportunity

Coventry meeting produces ‘do-nothing’ day

Cardiff JSA campaign demobilised

Bury the JSA

Dark forces in the east

SL Kenning looks at latest developments in the Socialist Labour Party

The biggest job

From the Workers’ Weekly, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, October 8 1926

Turkish state attacks Kurds

Fatherland torture centre

Andrew MacKay spoke to Mehmet Osman (not his real name) in Istanbul, Turkey

Cheerleaders for reaction

Around the left

A kinder form of oppression

Condemned to the margins

Royal repair job

Alan Fox reviews The Queen by Ben Pimlott (Harper Collins, pp651)

Human contradiction

From the debate surrounding the novels of Irvine Welsh, Phil Rudge argues that under today’s cultural conditions only artists who choose the lines of most resistance are able to even approach a committed literature

Unsaleable discovery

Helen Ellis reviews Blinded by the sun by Stephen Poliakoff, directed by Ron Daniels (Cottosloe theatre, London)

Wretched

The International Bolshevik Tendency has criticised the Communist Party for refusing to liquidate itself. The CPGB’s national organiser replies

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