WW archive > Issue 490 - 24 July 2003
Letters
Brilliant; No spent force; Quotas work; China greetings; SWP in Asia; Sloppy; 1917 fantasists; Prima donnas; False conception; Lessons of history; Staying in; Walking out
Party notes: Secularism is no 'shibboleth' either
Jack Conrad stands by defence of secularism, women's rights and homosexual equality
Paying the blood price
The death of weapons scientist David Kelly has highlighted Blair's continuing crisis over Iraq, writes Manny Neira
Socialist Alliance: minority meets
Non-SWP members of the SA national council et after the meeting and issued a statement
Around the web: Reclaim web space
Phil Hamilton continues his journey around the websites of the Labourite left with a visit to Labour Left Briefing
Socialist Alliance Pull back from disaster
The future looks bleak if the Socialist Workers Party can not be won away from its popular front project with the mosque. Marcus Strom reports from the weekend meeting of the Socialist Alliance national council
European Social Forum: Put in its place
The second European Social Forum, to be held in Paris in November, is now only months away. Tina Becker and Anne Mc Shane report on the latest preparation assembly, which met in Genoa over the weekend of July 19-20, where they witnessed the Socialist Workers Party taking a knock
European Social Forum: Breaking down barriers?
Petty national concerns appear to be alive and well in the European Social Forum
Aslef elections: Setback for TU awkward squad
A weak challenge from the union's rightwing has unseated Aslef general secretary Mick Rix. An Aslef member assesses the left's failings
Anti-semitism: AWL and roots of Zionism
Tony Greenstein enters the debate on Israel, anti-semitism and the Zionist movement
Firefighters: A drawn out defeat
What lessons can be drawn from the failure of the Fire Brigades Union's 30k pay struggle? Ian Foulkes, brigade chair of Merseyside FBU and an active member of the Socialist Alliance, looks back at the dispute
European Social Forum: Starting from scratch
Elisabeth Gaultier is a member of the executive committee of the Communist Party of France (PCF).