WW archive > Issue 531 - 03 June 2004
Letters
Respect label; IWCA; Animal welfare; Birmingham SA; Transitional; SWP quandary
An infantile disorder?
This week, the Red Platform of the CPGB looks at Lenin's pamphlet Leftwing communism - an infantile disorder - and finds many parallels to the political landscape today
Defend Abu Hamza's citizenship
Today, an islamic cleric. Tomorrow, progressives and socialists. No matter how despicable his politics, communists should never support the censorship of 'suspect' minorities, argues Ian Donovan
Aslef barbequed
The antics of the puffed up prima donnas in Aslef's leadership have the potential to destroy the union, warns Dean Hopper
DWP pay fight needs winning strategy
The week-long Public and Commercial Services Union conference starts on Monday June 7 in Brighton. Lee Rock, PCSU London regional organiser for the department for work and pensions (DWP), writing in a personal capacity, looks at one of the biggest issues facing the union - the DWP pay dispute
Summer Offensive 2004
The CPGB's annual fundraising drive has got off to a slow start, reports Tina Becker.
Vote Respect but fight for socialist politics
Nick Rogers analyses the forthcoming European and GLA elections - and says that those who do not advocate a vote for Respct are wrong.
More than an electoral front
The Weekly Worker's Peter Manson interviews Greg Tucker, an RMT militant and Respect candidate for the Greater London Authority on June 10
A voice for our times
Rosa Luxemburg has a great deal to say for our times, writes Peter Hudis, co-editor of The Rosa Luxemburg Reader. In this essay he looks at Luxemburg's insistence on democracy
Closed door manoeuvres
Tina Becker reports on latest developments in the preparations for the European Social Forum - which is still hampered by bureaucratic shenanigans, financial shortcomings, witch-hunts and censorship.
Yellow opportunists
Despite the fact that the Socialist Workers Party allowed Charles Kennedy to speak from the platform of the biggest anti-war demo in British history, the Iraq war does not feature too prominently on the Liberal Democrats' website - no wonder if one considers how inconsistent their opposition to the war was, says Phil Hamilton in this week's Around the Web
Documenter extraordinaire
Jim Gilbert Moody reviews In fact: Michael Grigsby and the documentary tradition, National Film Theatre, June 4-25
Voting for war criminals
The Communist Party of Britain congress stuck to its old line of auto-Labourism for the next general election - despite opposition from leading members