WW archive > Issue 585 - 14 July 2005
Terrorism and the SWP Janus
Are the London bombers and al Qa'eda potential allies in the struggle against imperialism, or reactionary enemies of the working class? Mike Macnair gives a communist view
Mission accomplished
Thanks to their front men Bob Geldof and Bono, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown managed to capture or neutralise the Make Poverty History bandwagon. But there remains deep disenchantment, argues Eddie Ford
Reasons to engage
Sachin Sharma reports on Hillel Ticktin's speach at Marxism Fringe
Worlds apart
Steven Spielberg War of the worlds general release
Bolshevik flexibility
Fighter for women's rights?
Fighter for women's rights?
Size ain't everything "¦
Ignorant and proud
There was a slightly unreal atmosphere around this year's Marxism, the annual school of the Socialist Workers Party. Respect haunted the proceedings, reports Mark Fischer, yet was practically invisible both in terms of the formal agenda and on the stalls
Squeeze it out
No short cuts
Tokenising the ex-leaders of a workers' struggle in one small part of Britain is no way to rebuild working class organisation, argues Alan Stevens
Workhouse of nations
US socialist Martin Schreader reports on Bush's reform of immigration policy