WW archive > Issue 424 - 21 March 2002
'Proletarian' pedantry and self-contradiction
Democratise the political funds
SA trade union conference
One of the notable features of Saturday's Socialist Alliance trade union conference lay in the organisation of a series of workshops. Here could be seen our weaknesses and lack of direction, but also our enormous potential - if we begin to organise trade union fractions
Refusenik testimony
Asaf Oron, a sergeant major in the Giv'ati Brigade, is one of the original 53 Israeli soldiers who signed the 'Fighters' letter', declaring their refusal to serve in the occupied territories. This is an edited version of his statement to an often hostile Israeli public, which was translated by Ami Kronfeld of Jewish Peace News
Welcome to Planet Taaffe
Education: Motivate rank and file workers
Airbrushed out
Voice for workers
Matt Wrack Whose money is it anyway? - the case for democratising the trade union political funds London 2002, £1, pp18
Workers move on to the offensive
Our alliance against theirs
Constitutional and class struggles
Should communists be indifferent to constitutions under capitalism? Examining the examples of the EU and the USA, Jack Conrad argues that they should actively intervene