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WW archive > Issue 203 - 14 August 1997

For queen and country

Just about the entire Scottish establishment has now signed up for Blair’s sop parliament

Letters

SSA conflict over boycott campaign; Ultra-leftism; Unity; Eta stupidity; Mutilation

Good lord!

Lords, ladies and her majesty’s loyal nationalists join establishment lash-up

Heil Tommy?

Party notes

Outrageous formulation

Statement from the Scottish Committee, CPGB

The situation in Russia

From ‘The Call’, paper of the British Socialist Party, August 2 1917

End state drug abuse

Revolutionary weapon or liberal rag?

Around the left

Thesis on communist rapprochement

This thesis was agreed to by the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Organising Committee of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) on August 10 1997

A sundered subcontinent

British imperialism created India and Pakistan 50 years ago this week

Workers must lead

Mary Ward of the CPGB replies to Phil Stott of Scottish Militant Labour (see Weekly Worker July 31). The debate on the referendum in Scotland which took place at Communist University ’97 is an ongoing one between our organisations

Socialist Labour and left advance

Addressing Communist University ’97, SLP councillor and democracy campaigner Ian Driver outlined the party’s prospects and assessed future developments on the left

Scargill confirms democracy ban

Simon Harvey of the SLP

Tackling danger head on

Below we reprint Arthur Scargill’s article in defence of the witch hunt, as it appeared in Socialist News (August 1997)

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