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WW archive > Issue 212 - 16 October 1997

Labour’s new inquisition

New Labour’s drugs tsar is watching you

Letters

Griffin flit; One fight?; AFA picket; ‘Anti-war International’; Lost support

Party notes

Manchester Alliance debates Scotland

Obituary: Stuart Ward and Natalie Monier

In the wilderness

Around the left

The Dreadnought suppressed

From 'The Call', paper of the British Socialist Party, October 11 1917

Socialist Labour Party and China

An exchange of letters has taken place in the SLP over an article by ‘Don Hoskins’ in Socialist News (September/October), praising the regime in China (see Weekly Worker September 11). Clearly the SLP is riven with deep ideological contradictions. Perhaps China will result in meltdown

Tommy gets his wish

Open challenge to Taaffe

Earlier this year five - ultra-economistic - members of Labor Militant (sister organisation of the Socialist Party) were expelled from the US group, whose leadership was acting in concert with the International Secretariat of the Committee for a Workers International. The expelled members included John Reiman and a leading comrade referred to as SO’T. Here we publish an extract from the US minority document, The expulsions, which calls on CWI supporters to fight for what they understand as genuine democratic centralism

Hands off my ‘constitution’!

Simon Harvey of the SLP

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