WW archive > Issue 543 - 09 September 2004
Letters
Allegations; For secularisation; Appetite for unity; Rights; SWP and BNP; Conspiracy; Smoking bans; Not socialist; Stalin; imperialism; Emotional; Oh Happy Day; Gay Victory
Lenin and imperialism in the 21st century
What is the significance of Lenin's critique of imperialism today? Was it marred by moralism? Nick Rogers gives his view
Putin follows in the bloody footsteps of Stalin and the tsars
No to Russian oppression, no the Chechen terrorism, says Eddie Ford
Culture clashes in Edinburgh
'P' for for politics is back in vogue at the Edinburgh Film Festival, reports Jim Gilbert Moody
Livingstone tightens his grip
The European Social Forum needs be democratised if it is to really help the left across Europe. But instead the whole thing is becoming more and more of a bureaucratic stitch-up. There is resentment and opposition but it is sullen and unorganised. Tina Becker and Anne Mc Shane report from the preparatory meeting held in Brussels over September 3-5
Still the death toll mounts
Paul Greenaway reports on the situation in Iraq
Iraq puppet unions
Houzan Mahmoud argues that the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions should not be trusted
Reorganisation - yet again
Ian Mahoney assesses the SWP's recent reorganisation - and doubts that this will solve the comrades' political and programmatic problems
What democracy looks like?
Martin Schreader reports from the recent mass demonstrations against the Republican convention in New York
Some alternative
Phill Hamilton reports on the John Kerry campaign
Consider your tactics wisely, for yours is not an easy fight
Former Socialist Workers Party national committee member David Isaacson has joined the CPGB. Tellingly, and not without self-criticism, he details how on the one hand the SWP leadership perpetuates itself, and how, on the other, it depoliticises and demotivates. The result is a not a party but a bureaucratic sect which must be fought from the inside and the out