WW archive > Issue 181 - 06 March 1997
SLP vote squeezed
After Wirral South the writing is on the wall for the Tories. But will the Socialist Labour Party be up to the challenge of a New Labour government?
Letters
Settled reality?; Writers in Iran targeted
‘No mistake to stand’
Wirral South SLP candidate Mick Cullen gave the Weekly Worker his views on the campaign
No more Coronation Street
Party notes
More tube misery in the pipeline
Democratic rights attacked
Join the fight for self-determination
Ad hoc committee says ‘No’ to Labour sop
Russia - consistency in reaction
From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, March 1 1997
Infantile malady
Around the left
Reactionaries attack science
Thieves fall out
Lifeless discourse
Helen Ellis reviews Mark Ravenhill's Faust (directed by Nick Phillippou)
More candidates needed for the general election
SLP: news and information
SLP branch under threat
Vauxhall Constituency Socialist Labour Party, already hit by the ‘voiding’ of Barry Biddulph, one of its most active members (see Weekly Worker February 27), appears now to be threatened with closure itself. We reproduce below correspondence between Arthur Scargill and Kirstie Paton, branch secretary of the CSLP
Letter to Arthur Scargill
Open to all SLP members
Anti-communist witch hunts continue
Lee-Anne Bates reviews Arthur Miller's The crucible (directed by Nicholas Hytner)
Class not gender
Doreen McNally is a founder member of Women of the Waterfront, set up to organise women in support of the Liverpool dockers. Her husband, Charlie, has worked on the docks for 29 years. Lee-Anne Bates spoke to her about their struggle and how working class women can be organised to fight back
Fighting fund
Linda Addison reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund