WW archive > Issue 535 - 01 July 2004
Letters
Offensive; Eurocommunist; Inaccuracies; Save Aslef; Leave Aslef; Gay rights; Confused?; SADP and Respect; Red Platform
Shadowplay in Baghdad
Mike Macnair takes a critical look at the socalled 'handover of power' on June 28
Socialist Workers Party: Blaming the membership
Last weekend's national committee of the Socialist Workers Party was a pretty unhappy affair. The printshop is being sold off and the promised breakthrough on June 10 failed to happen. How did the leadership explain these results? Paul Fellows reports
Arthur Scargill and the end of a fantasy
Five years ago the SWP backed away from fighting the European elections because of the Socialist Labour Party. Now the SLP has all but vanished. Simon Harvey recounts the sorry tale of how Arthur Scargill ran, dominated andunintentionally killed his own creation
Debating the issues
Last weekend saw the second annual Communist University Wales. Held in Cardiff, it offered an opportunity for left activists to discuss issues affecting both the Welsh and international left. Ben Lewis reports
Rough edges
Phil Hamilton looks at the website of the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform
Give me four times more
Yvonne Ridley has been adopted as Respect candidate for the July 15 Leicester South by-election. She spoke to Peter Manson
Summer Offensive: Pick up tempo
Ian Mahoney reports that even Plaid Cymru members cannot resist supporting the CPGB's Summer Offensive
Scottish Socialist Party: Nationalism wrong answer
Sarah McDonald analyses the resignation of John Swinney of the Scottish National Party - but doubts that the Scottish Socialist Party can benefit from the crisis
ASLEF: Publish everything
Dean Hooper calls for accountability in Aslef
Assessing the new and burying the past
Marcus Strom calls on all supporters of the CPGB to campaign for Respect in the forthcoming by-elections in Leicester South and Birmingham Hodge Hill - while still raising criticisms of its minimal and populist platform
Scabbing and London's mayor
We need to wrest control of the European Social Forum out of Livingstone's hands, argues Tina Becker