WW archive > Issue 317 - 16 December 1999
Challenge to London unity
The fight for principled left unity in London to present an electoral challenge to Blair’s Labour has received a setback. The determination of the CATP to press ahead regardless of the plans of others is wrong
Letters
Blank cheque; Auto-leftism; Imagined; Essence; SSP purge; Groundless
Harry’s game
Party notes
Scargill’s GLA slate
Simon Harvey of the SLP
Faction ended
Capitalism and its decline
Many in the workers’ movement now accept what are erroneously called market values. So is capitalism set to dominate the 21st century? Did Marxism get it wrong about the decadence or decline of capitalism? Hillel Ticktin addressed the CPGB’s Communist University earlier this year on these and other questions.
Red-brown cesspit
Michael Malkin examines the Great Russian chauvinism and anti-semitism of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Change and flux
Danny Hammill reviews 'Almost like a whale: The origin of species updated' by Steve Jones
Banal identity reasoning
Phil Watson reviews 'John Coltrane and the jazz revolution of the 1960s' by Frank Kofsky
Passion for change
John Walsh reviews 'All power to the imagination' by Dave Douglass
Human.liberation.com
Economic and technology revolution lays basis for communism, argues Dave Craig
Strategy and tactics
Has the Weekly Worker “collapsed into shabby opportunism” over Ken Livingstone’s bid to become London mayor? Maurice Bernal responds to some criticisms
Stakes are high
Left debates attitude toward Livingstone
Not promising
Robbie Rix reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund