WW archive > Issue 412 - 13 December 2001
Letters
Coy relationship; Not SWP; Dishonest; Any name; Greedy Gibs; Messed up
Why I resigned from the SWP
Elections only
Letter to Socialist Alliance national executive
Horror upon horror
Reactionary anti-Zionism
Eddie Ford examines the roots of Hamas and looks at its programmatic charter
Our history Heroic struggle
In August 1921 the CPGB stood Bob Stewart as the CPGB candidate in a by-election in Caerphilly, south Wales. Caerphilly was dominated by the coal-mining industry, and just a few months earlier the miners had fought a bitter struggle against the government and mine-owners. This was the newly formed party's first test at the ballot box. It had been preceded by dramatic events. On April 1 1921 over one million workers in the mining industry were locked out when they refused to acÂcept pay cuts of up to 50%. The govÂernment declared a state of emerÂgency and brought in the troops. The miners looked to their partners in the Triple Alliance - the transport and railway workers - for support. SoliÂdarity strike action was planned to start on Friday April 15, but was called off by the left reformist union leaders. Eighty Communist Party members were imprisoned during this dispute, indicating the enormous support given to the miners by the party. The following address, to the workers of Caerphilly, urged the miners to break with the class traitors of the Labour Party and return a genuine workers' repÂresentative to the House of Commons
Welsh Socialist Alliance
Resignation and retreat
Marx, Marxists and morality
Critics of Marxism often contemptuously dismiss it as antithetical to morality. In the first of a short series of articles Michael Malkin argues that on the contrary Marxism is deeply moral
Reclaiming Maclean
For a democratic federal Europe
Stop the war coalition
Democracy to the fore