WW archive > Issue 500 - 16 October 2003
Party Notes: 500th edition
Notching up 500 issues of the Weekly Worker is an undoubted achievement in itself, says Jack Conrad
Letters
Russia 1917; Anarchism; Anarcho-cap; SA platform; SSP success; Foot in mouth; Galloway; Obsessed
Labour socialists and SSP
Can Labour be reclaimed? Are avenues of dissent concreted over? Vince Mills secretary of the Campaign for Socialism - a group within the Scottish Labour Party - speaks to Mark Fischer
Support Bookmarks
Bookmarks, the socialist publisher associated with the Socialist Workers Party, are currently facing massive legal costs as a result of a libel case. Ian Donovan reports
Around the web: True lies
Phil Hamilton looks at the website of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Class politics not electoralism
It looks as though the Socialist Workers Party's hopes for a cross-class 'peace and justice' coalition to contest next year's European and Greater London Authority elections are alive and well after all. Peter Manson reports
Bourgeois revolutions and breaking national myths
Neil Davidson, a member of the Socialist Worker platform in the SSP, systematically takes apart what commonly passes for Scottish history. This is an edited version of the opening he gave to this year's Communist University
Open up London ESF bid
Another week, another secret meeting to discuss the proposal to host the European Social Forum 2004 in London. Tina Becker was there
Allure of centrism
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group calls for a republican workers' party
Agreeing to disagree
Sean Matgamna of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty demands to know the politics on which a new workers' party would be based. Is ideological consensus a requirement for unity? Manny Neira argues not
Hard cash and comradeship
This letter has been sent by the Communist Party of Great Britain to the Socialist Alliance national executive committee
Arnie's total recall
Jem Jones comments on Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming the new Republican governor of California