WW archive > Issue 512 - 22 January 2004
Respect and opportunism
Despite the failure of the SA the party question has not gone away: it is simply posed anew in the more difficult subjective conditions of Respect, writes Jack Conrad
Letters
Web breakfast; Fight for a party
Galloway's nationalist gaffe
Cameron Richards reports on the Cardiff meeting of the unity coalition
Comrade remembered
Party and paper split
Blairism and the delabourisation of Labour threw much of the revolutionary left into crisis, the CPB is only now belatedly following, writes Alan Rees
Hijab: the protests ...
Though we are critical, the OFWI still deserves the support of all socialists for its political opposition to the oppression of women through the imposition of sharia law in Iraq, says Manny Neira
Socialism, reform and revolution
Chris Jones of the Revolutionary Democratic Group looks at the role of class struggle in shaping the politics of the 21st century
Britain at the crossroads
The Democracy Platform of the Socialist Alliance has issued an alternative declaration for Respect
Left facing both ways
The Socialist Alliance council voted overwhelmingly to engage with the RESPECT unity coalition, reports Peter Manson
In their own words
Doaa Al-Rani (19) took a leading role in the protests. Though not an MAB member, she led the chanting, rallying a group of women around her
Hijab: ... and the debate
The contentious subject of 'Headscarves, secularism and the battle of democracy' produced a lively debate at the first CPGB London forum of 2004, reports Mary Godwin
Face up to the fight
John Hutnyk reviews: Tariq Mehmood, 'While there is light', Manchester, 2003, Comma Press, pp220, £7.95
Bureaucratic grip tightens
The London Mayor is in control of preparations for the European Social Forum. Tina Becker reports