WW archive > Issue 178 - 13 February 1997
Make Scotland workers’ cause
As the Tories make Scotland a national issue, how should the left respond?
Letters
CPGB deficient; May Day; Try harder ; Revolution and the state; Too kind
Mounting the challenge to New Labour
Mick Cullen, one of the sacked Merseyside dockers, is standing for the Socialist Labour Party in the Wirral South by-election on February 27. Peter Manson asked him about the SLP’s prospects
Why change?
Party notes
Police pay out £5,000
Second protester in Gravesend, North Kent, against racism and fascism is to get hundreds of pounds from Kent police
Labour drops feminist gloss
Throwing the book at library workers
Unity call
Strike throws Ecuador government into crisis
Juan Ponce of Poder Obrero calls for workers’ independence in Ecuador
Picket against Fujimori
Colombian general strike
In Russia
From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, February 8 1917
Cosmetic face lift
Around the left
National question and the ‘lesser evil’
Martin Blum discusses a working class answer to the national question in the former Yugoslavia
Democracy bypassed in Scottish Socialist Alliance
Nick Clarke looks at the development of the SSA as the general election looms
Not compatible with democracy
At a branch meeting of Stockport Socialist Labour Party on November 28 1996 followers of the Economic and Philosophical Science Review, led by its founder-editor Roy Bull, passed a ‘motion’ calling for the expulsion of comrade John Pearson, the branch secretary. They alleged he was a member of the CPGB. John Pearson has since been excluded from a branch meeting recently chaired by Phil Griffin, backed by his homophobic and sectarian allies in the EPSR. We publish below the exchange between John Pearson and Arthur Scargill
Two Scargills and two election tactics
SLP: news and comment
SUPPLEMENT: Genesis of bureaucratic socialism
Part III – Terror
Fighting fund
Linda Addison reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund