WW archive > Issue 250 - 23 July 1998
Spending spree veils new attack
After two years of continuing the Tories’ squeeze on health and education New Labour is now playing the bountiful benefactor for all it is worth. Workers should not be fooled
Letters
Striking absence; Offered a lift; Sect petulance; CPGB cesspit; By a thread
250th issue
Party notes
The Russian Revolution must live!
From The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, July 25 1918
Scabbing on the struggle
Around the left
For or against liquidationism
Two recent resignations from the CPGB underline the nature of the political period. These letters of personal justification written in April are printed below with a reply from Mark Fischer which draws out some political lessons
Fundamentally flawed
Ian Donovan, editor of 'Revolution and truth', elaborates his criticisms of the Revolutionary Democratic Communist Tendency platform
CPGB paranoia?
The following newsletter of the ‘Campaigning Alliances Bulletin’ has been circulated by comrade Nick Long, convenor of Lewisham SA and a member of the Socialist Democracy Group. It is advertised as “a newsletter of those committed to building real Socialist Alliances”
Bosses’ dirty tricks
Bosses are attempting to intimidate RMT activists. As part of this campaign, they have singled out Steve Hedley, a longstanding RMT militant, for intimidation. The Railworkers Rank and File Campaign reports
Failed revolutions
Danny Hammill reports on the CPGB debate on ‘the transitional programme’, opened by a speaker from the International Bolshevik Tendency