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