WW archive > Issue 562 - 03 February 2005
Don't mention open borders
Exploit every legal opportunity
Slow death of old left
This year's World Social Forum, which has just closed in Brazil, has highlighted the fact that the left is still struggling to come to terms with the end of the Soviet Union. A new generation is reacting against capitalism's triumphalism, says Tina Becker - and instead of revolutionary answers the left serves them the rotten crap of the past
From Belmarsh to Rangoon
Disunity amid a plethora of unity projects
The Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform, meeting in Birmingham on Saturday January 29, debated the demise of the SA, the prospects for left unity and the attitude of socialists to the occupation of Iraq. Nick Rogers reports
Embellishing the holocaust
Bob Potter recalls the support of US capital and the UK monarchy for the Nazis, and discusses the marketing of Auschwitz
Expression of decline
The marking of Holocaust Day is highly contradictory, argues Hillel Ticktin
Phoenix from the ashes
Dave Craig argues for a democratic conference and a new Socialist Alliance that unites revolutionaries and reformists
Sectarian killers at the funeral
The Socialist Workers Party will finally bury the Socialist Alliance on February 5. Ian Mahoney draws some lessons