WW archive > Issue 461 - 19 December 2002
From Bedfordshire to Zimbabwe and back
Fight islamism, not islam
Fight war hysteria
Turning away from history
Eric Hobsbawm, 'Interesting times: a 20th century life', London 2002, pp 448, £20
Democracy, the state machine and working class power
The Paris Commune was the world's first example of a workers' state, albeit short-lived. Ian Donovan looks at the lessons for the 21st century
Effective consent or moralism
Ian Donovan responds to the furore over the letter published in Weekly Worker 459
Politics needed
Separate and distinct from SWP
A meeting took place between members of the Scottish Socialist Party executive committee and the Socialist Worker platform steering committee on Thursday December 12. According to SSP national secretary Allan Green, EC members "expressed disappointment" that the SW platform "failed to deal with the main questions" in the letter from the executive (see 'Falling out in Scotland' Weekly Worker December 12).
Functional at best
Around the web: Socialist Workers Party
Sectarian amateurism and the complacent world of Sean Matgamna - part 4
Learn from mistakes
Darwinism and Marxism
Mike Macnair reviews The structure of evolutionary theory by Stephen Jay Gould (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2002, pp1,433)