WW archive > Issue 395 - 02 August 2001
Letters
Cowardly; Disband police; Not available; Scab Scargill; Take your pick; Joined up; SA reformists; Tommy rot
Solidarity with Turkish prisoners
Prisoner-activists Mark Barnsley (HMP Wakefield) and John Bowden (HMP Bristol) have issued the following statement
East London
AGM agrees to disband Elsa
Foot and mouth
Blair scapegoats farmers
Stockton
Action and debate
Our history Inkpin speaks
The first Congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain - over the weekend of July 31 and August 1 1920 - represented the fusion of Britain?s main revolutionary forces, although even at this stage a number of important groups and currents still stood aside and refused to attend the unity convention. The report on the unity negotiations was given by comrade Albert Inkpin - previously secretary of the British Socialist Party and now secretary of the Joint Provisional Committee of the CPGB. Inkpin led the CPGB for nine years, after which he became secretary of the Russia Today Society until his death in 1944. As shown by the official account of the report - submitted on behalf of the Joint Provisional Committee - the negotiations were not only incomplete: they were long and often tortuous. Yet, as can also be seen, the differences had nothing to do with matters of principle. All were united on the necessity for violent revolution, a system of soviets/workers? councils as opposed to parliament, and the need for a dictatorship of the proletariat - ie, the principles of the Third (Communist) International.
Threats denied
After Genoa
Left must rethink
Southwark
Conflict and compromise
Thatcher?s favourite
SA Press Group
Socialist Workers Party?s failings exposed
Hackney
Putting federalism above democracy
Socialist Alliance prepares next stage
Liaison Committee debates way ahead
Brass eye hysteria
No state censorship