WW archive > Issue 547 - 07 October 2004
Letters
Personal; A bitt odd; Creature rant; Anti-semitism; Whose interest?; Who did what; WRP and Bull; Refreshing; AWL and imperialism; Iraq resistance; Join later; Sad SWP; Revisionist; ESF Snouts; Fake Nader; Centrist CPGB
Dissappointment and hyperbole
Steve Cooke analyses Respect's vote in Hartlepool, where John Bloom achieved 1,82%
No to the elected monarch
What does Blair's leadership announcement mean in constitutional terms? Once again, argues Mike Macnair, it points to the democratic deficit within the UK state
Don't rain on our parade
Less than 20 Respect members turned up to the all-Wales meeting, reports Cameron Richards
Howard clutches at straws
Patrick Presland reports on the Tories' party conference - where Michael Howard was exposed as having no rounded programme whatsoever
Weimarisation
Martin Schreader reports from the latest developments in the US elections
Control-freakery dampens enthusiasm
The European Social Forum takes place in London from October 15-17. But, writes Tina Becker, do not expect any interesting debates among UK platform speakers at the plenary sessions. Socialist Action and the SWP have made sure that only those loyal to their own groups and London mayor Ken Livingstone will be heard. Rank and file trade unionists and independent thinkers from Britain will not be allowed to address the European left
Back on the rails
Bill Keane reports from Aslef's annual assembly of delegates
Women only and class
Women's liberation is not only a task for women, writes Elaine Harrison - and argues against women-only organisations
Defend rank and file unity
The left in the Fire Brigades Union fights back against witch-hunting attacks, reports Alan Fox
Islam and the Bolshevik body politic
What should be the attitude of communists towards believers? Socialist Workers Party member Dave Crouch discussed the lessons of post-revolutionary Russia in his contribution to the CPGB's Communist University 2004
Don't criticise the oppressed
Phil Hamilton takes a look at the websites of the Workers World Party